Robert Fleming

- Bef 1314

• Name	Robert Fleming
  Birth	of Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 1314  [1]
  Person ID	I28962	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2020

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Patrick Fleming,   b. of Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F17266	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "ROBERT FLEMING, 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." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S800] The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of That Kingdom. Ed. James Balfour Paul. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-1914.