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Sir Malcolm Fleming of Monycabock
(c1445 - c1477)
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Sir Malcolm Fleming of Monycabock, eldest son of Robert, 1st Lord Fleming, was Sheriff of Stirling and a royal commissioner for the marriage of the infant Prince James. He died before his father, but his son became the 2nd Lord Fleming.

Heir apparent

Malcolm was born around 1445, the eldest son of Robert, 1st Lord Fleming, and Janet Douglas. In 1462 he was infeft in the forty-merk land of Kirkintilloch, the land that was the subject of his father’s long feud with the Kennedys. As baron of Monycabock in Aberdeenshire, in 1465 he set a seven-year tack of the barony to Henry Forbes of Kinnellar, and in the same year he had sasine of an annualrent from Panmure. See Estate: Monycabock.

Sheriff of Stirling

By 1470 Malcolm was Sheriff of Stirlingshire, and he still held the office in 1471. He owned property in Stirling, part of which he sold to the king and part of which he granted to the burgh council. In 1472 he witnessed charters of the Earl of Erroll at Aberdeen as son and heir apparent of Lord Fleming.

A royal marriage

In October 1474 Malcolm was named a commissioner to negotiate the marriage of the one-year-old James, Prince of Scotland, later King James IV, to Cecily, daughter of King Edward IV of England, and he witnessed the formal proxy betrothal on 26 October 1474. The marriage never took place.

Family and legacy

Malcolm married Euphemia Livingstone. Their children included David Fleming of Monycabock, John, 2nd Lord Fleming, Alexander, a burgess of Glasgow, Michael, rector of Ancrum and canon of Glasgow, and daughters Elizabeth and Isobel. Malcolm died around 1477, fourteen years before his father, so his eldest son David was his grandfather’s heir, and after David’s early death the lordship passed to John.