FlemingClans.com

"Scotland's Fleming Clan: a Genealogical History" - coming in 2027!

Person Page 832

William Flandrensis, de Biggar and Stanhouse

b. circa 1194

Birth

William Flandrensis, de Biggar and Stanhouse, was born circa 1194.

Parents

FatherRobert ("de Strathgryffe") Flandrensis, 3rd de Biggar (b. circa 1175, d. after 1250)

Property1,2,3,4,5

William Flandrensis, de Biggar and Stanhouse, possessed owned, as Wilelmi de Bygres, land in Rutherglen next to land donated to Paisley Abbey by Cecilia former wife of John of Perthec in 1262 in Rutherglen.6

Citations

  1. [S79] C Innes, Liber S Marie de Calchou: Registrum Cartarum Abbacie Tironensis de Kelso (Edinburgh: The Bannatyne Club, 1846), charter 186, p 152-153; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/libersmariedecal01kels/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater : accessed 25 March 2025.
  2. [S32] Various contributors, "People of Medieval Scotland," database, Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh et al, People of Medieval Scotland (https://poms.ac.uk/: online 25 November 2023), Document 3/89/2 (Kel. Lib., no. 186), Grant by Hugh of Biggar son of Robert son of Waltheof of Biggar to Lesmahagow Priory at https://poms.ac.uk/record/source/4032/.
  3. [S34] J Arnold Fleming, Flemish Influence in Britain (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie & Co, 1930), vol 2, p13-19, Baldwin Fleming.
  4. [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 467.
  5. [S3] Sir Robert Douglas, The peerage of Scotland: Containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom (N.p.: n.p., 1764), vol ii, p 628.
  6. [S61] Cosmo Innes, Editor, Registrum Monasterii de Passalet: cartas privilegia conventiones aliaque munimenta complectens 1163-1526 (Edinburgh: Maitland Club, 1832), p 376-377; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/registrummonaste00mait/page/n5/mode/2up?q=fleming : accessed 28 February 2025.
Click on any citation number above to view details of the source document and, possibly, access an image of the source.
Last Edited 14 August 2026