Estate: Auchtermony

Auchtermony, Stirlingshire (Lennox)
1451 - c1740

The barony of Auchtermony, in the old earldom of Lennox near Kirkintilloch, was acquired by Robert, 1st Lord Fleming, in 1451. It was held alongside Lenzie and Biggar until the family’s estates were dispersed in the eighteenth century.

Acquisition

On 7 June 1451 Robert, 1st Lord Fleming, had a charter of Auchtermony on the resignation of Alexander Lyon, son of Patrick, Lord Glamis, as part of a series of exchanges with the Lyons.

Estates within the barony

Auchtermony itself, with Nether Auchinreoch, which was held of the Lords Fleming by the Flemings of Bord, and Inchbelly.

Holding the barony

John, 2nd Lord Fleming, was served heir to his brother in Auchtermony in 1491, and in 1503 he granted Nether Auchinreoch to William Fleming of Bord in exchange for Menzean. Later Lords Fleming had sasine of the barony in 1549, 1558 and 1580, and in 1553 the 4th Lord granted his wife Barbara Hamilton a liferent in Kildowan and Auchtermony. In 1586 the 6th Lord settled the barony of Auchtermony on his future wife, Lilias Graham.

In 1636 annualrents from the baronies of Lenzie, Biggar and Auchtermony were settled on the daughters of the 2nd Earl, and in 1649 he petitioned Parliament for tax relief for his tenants in Lenzie and Auchtermony, who had suffered in the wars.

Disposal

No sale of the barony is recorded in the family papers. The last record dates from 1738, when the creditors of John, 6th Earl of Wigtown, were litigating against the creditors of the estate of Inchbelly.