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Jean Fleming, Countess of Panmure
b. circa 1661, d. April 1683
Birth
Jean Fleming, Countess of Panmure, was born circa 1661.
Parents
| Father | John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming (b. circa 1633, d. between April 1668 and 5 August 1668) |
| Mother | Ann Ker, second daughter of Harry, Lord Ker, son of Robert, first Earl of Roxburghe (b. 1630, d. November 1673) |
Family life
George Maule, 3rd Earl of Panmure, and Jean Fleming, Countess of Panmure, were married on 23 December 1677.1
Child with George Maule, 3rd Earl of Panmure (b. 1650, d. 1686)
| Son | George Maule (b. after 1677, d. before 1686) |
Property1,2,3
Jean Fleming, Countess of Panmure, possessed was placed under the supervision of her heir, William 5th Earl of Wigtown, as tutor-at-law on 21 September 1669.1,4,5 She possessed was loaned a pearl necklace by her aunt Sophia Kerr on 8 January 1678.6 She possessed named in signature of the lands of Brechin granted to Jean Fleming (Fleeming, Flemyng), Countess of Panmure on 1 March 1678.7
Death
Jean Fleming, Countess of Panmure, died in April 1683 at age ~22.1,4,8 She had her estate probated on 27 May 1684 in Easter and Wester Mains of Kirkintilloch.8,9
Citations
- [S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558.
- [S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar District, Archeological, Historical and Biographical, second edition (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867), p 558.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 221.
- [S60] Bernard Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (London: Harrison, 1866), Fleming, Earl of Wigton, p 218-19; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_K3MaAAAAYAAJ/page/n7/mode/2up?q=fleming : accessed 27 February 2025.
- [S152] Record Commission of Great Britain, Inquisitionum ad capellam domini regis retornatarum: Quae in publicis archivis Scotiae adhuc servantur, Abbreviatio (London: HM King George III, 1811), 1669 0921, Tutela, 947, Lady Jean Fleming (tutory); online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
- [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed), GD4 17464, 8 Jan 1678, Acknowledgement by Lady Jean Fleyming.
- [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 3 November 2026), SIG 55141, 1 Mar 1678, Signature of the lands of Brechin granted to Jean Fleming (Fleeming, Flemyng), Countess of Panmure.
- [S152] Record Commission of Great Britain, Inquisitionum ad capellam domini regis retornatarum: Quae in publicis archivis Scotiae adhuc servantur, Abbreviatio (London: HM King George III, 1811), 1684 0527, Dunbarton, 74, Jean Fleming Countess of Panmure; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
- [S152] Record Commission of Great Britain, Inquisitionum ad capellam domini regis retornatarum: Quae in publicis archivis Scotiae adhuc servantur, Abbreviatio (London: HM King George III, 1811), 1684 0527, Lanark, 361, Lady Jean Fleming Countess of Panmure; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
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