Walter Fleming, 4th of Barochan
b. circa 1290
Person Exhibits

Coin of King Robert I
Detailed biography
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Birth
Walter Fleming, 4th of Barochan, was born circa 1290.
Parents
Working life
Property
Walter Fleming, 4th of Barochan, possessed was granted lands and rights in Kettins, Pitcur and Eassie (ANG) by Robert King of Scots on 20 March 1315 in Arbroath.
4,5,6,7 He possessed was the beneficiary of a concession and quitclaim that Lambert Suitor made over all right and claim that he had in half the land of Kirkton and a quarter part of the land of Easterton within the barony of Guthrie on 1 May 1322 in Arbroath.
8,910,11,12,13,14
Death
Walter Fleming, 4th of Barochan, had his estate probated between 1360 and 1368 in Barochan, Pitcur, Kettins, Essie.
Citations
- [S34] J Arnold Fleming, Flemish Influence in Britain (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie & Co, 1930), vol 2, p 35.
- [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 470.
- [S32] Various contributors, "People of Medieval Scotland," database, Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh et al, People of Medieval Scotland (https://poms.ac.uk/: online 8 October 2024), Document 1/53/495 (RMS, i, no. 80), Gift of barony of Kirkintilloch (DNB.)

- [S32] Various contributors, "People of Medieval Scotland," database, Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh et al, People of Medieval Scotland (https://poms.ac.uk/: online 26 November 2023), Document 1/53/63 (RRS, v, no. 56), Gift of lands and rights in Kettins, Pitcur and Eassie (ANG) at https://poms.ac.uk/record/source/9761/.

- [S38] Archibald Duncan, editor, Regesta Regum Scottorum, The Acts of Robert I, King Of Scots 1306-1329: vol V of VI (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988), p 340 charter 56; image, Internet Archive, Wayback Machine (http://archive.org/details/the-acts-of-robert-i-king-of-scots-1306-1329-book : online 21 December 2024; knight, of lands and rights at Kettins, Pitcur, and Eassie (Angus), for the eighth part of a knight’s service. Arbroath, 20 March a.r.g [1315].
- [S80] William Fraser, The Red Book of Menteith (Edinburgh: William Fraser, 1880), vol ii, p 224; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/redbookofmentev100fras : accessed 26 March 2025.

- [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 16 September 2025), GD181/96, 20 Mar [1315], Charter by Robert I, King of Scots, to Walter Fleming, son of William Fleming of Barrichan [Barrochan], kt, of half mill of Kettenes [Kettins].

- [S32] Various contributors, "People of Medieval Scotland," database, Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh et al, People of Medieval Scotland (https://poms.ac.uk/: online 26 November 2023), Document 1/53/236 (RRS, v, no. 208), Confirmation of quitclaim by Lambert soutar or suitor of land in Guthrie (ANG) athttps://poms.ac.uk/record/source/9903/.

- [S38] Archibald Duncan, editor, Regesta Regum Scottorum, The Acts of Robert I, King Of Scots 1306-1329: vol V of VI (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988), p 470 charter 208; image, Internet Archive, Wayback Machine (http://archive.org/details/the-acts-of-robert-i-king-of-scots-1306-1329-book : online 21 December 2024; Confirmation of a quit claim by Lambert the souter to Walter Fleming of half of the Kirkton and quarter of the Easterton of Guthrie (Angus ). Arbroath, 1 May a.r.17 [1322].
- [S34] J Arnold Fleming, Flemish Influence in Britain (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie & Co, 1930), vol 2, p 99-100.
- [S59] Monks of Newbattle Abbey, Registrum S. Marie de Neubotle, 1140-1528: Abbacie Cisterciensis Beate Virginis de Neubotle chartarium vetus (Innes: Bannatyne Club, 1849), charter 271, p 230-1; online image, Internet Archive ( : accessed 26 February 2025.
- [S64] Cosmos Nelson Innes, Editor for the Bannatyne Club, Origines Parochiales Scotiae: the antiquities ecclesiastical and territorial of the parishes of Scotland (Edinburgh: WH Lizars, 1851), vol i, p 25; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/originesparochia01bann/page/n7/mode/2up?q=fleming&view=theater : accessed 23 April 2025.
- [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 477.
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