Robert Fleming (-before 1314) |
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| Robert Fleming of Cumbernauld (-) | Robert Fleming who died before 1314 seems to be too old to be the father of Brigida. Yet there are no other candidates. Perhaps Brigidas father was not a Robert? Or not of Cumbernauld? | ||
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| Sir Patrick Fleming of Biggar (-)1 | ||
| Sir Malcolm Fleming of Fulwood and Cumbernauld (-before 3 October 1357), 1. Earl of Wigtown2 | ||
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| Died:3 | before 1314 | |||
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| One of the leading men of Scotland, to whom Edward I wrote in 1290 about settling the succession of the crown upon the death of Margaret, and who proposed the marriage of the said Margaret, the Maid of Norway, to Prince Edward of England at Brigham on 12 March 1289-90. He afterwards swore fealty to Edward I, but soon repenting, he joined Robert Bruce in his efforts to secure the crown and restore the liberties of Scotland. He was with Bruce in the town of Dumfries on 10 February 1305-6, when, in the church of the convent of the Minorite Friars, he stabbed Sir John Comyn. Fleming then entered the church with Kirkpatrick and others and despatched the wounded man. Cutting off his head, it is said, and returning to Bruce, who inquired if Comyn were dead, he produced the same with the remark, 'Let the deid shaw', which was thereafter borne by the family for their motto. As a reward for his services he received from the King a charter of the lands of Lenzie and Cumbernauld in Dumbartonshire which had been forfeited by John Comyn, Earl of Buchan.4 | ||
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