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View Tree for Sir Robert FlemingSir Robert Fleming (d. 1491)

Sir Robert Fleming (son of Sir Malcolm Fleming and Elizabeth Stewart) died 1491 in Scotland. He married Janet Douglas.

 Includes NotesNotes for Sir Robert Fleming:
Sir Robert Fleming of Biggar and Cumbernauld, only surviving son, entered a protest on January 7, 1440-41 against the illegal and unwarrantable sentence of execution and forfeiture passed on his father. King James II, on attaining minority, being convinced of the injustice of the sentence, issued precepts on January 1, 1441-42, for serving Sir Robert as heir of his father.

Robert was created a Peer of Parliament as Lord Fleming shortly after 1451. As Robert, Lord Fleming, Master of the Kings Household, he was an Auditor of accounts in Excheques July 1, 1454. He married, first, Janet Douglas, third daughter of James, seventh Earl of Douglas. Robert died in 1491. He was the son of Sir Malcolm Fleming and Elizabeth Stewart. (The Scots Peerage, Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol 8, pp 531, 533)


Children of Sir Robert Fleming and Janet Douglas are:
  1. +Sir Malcolm Fleming, d. 1477, Scotland.
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