Baldwin (Fleming) the Fleming (abt. 1120)

Born about 1120 in Flanders

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland [uncertain]

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Baldwin (Fleming) the Fleming was an inhabitant of Medieval Scotland. Join: Scotland Project Discuss: Scotland

Biography

Around 1147-1151 Baldwin Fleming was a witness to a charter of King Malcolm IV confirming the gift of a Church to Scone, by King David. ^[1]

Parents

Created as son of Knut Flandre and Unknown CLN Fleming. No parents are identified for Baldwin and the parents have been detached.

Date of Birth

Baldwin the Fleming, active in Scotland around 1150 when he witnessed a charter, must have been born around 1120 at the latest which would make him around 30 years of age. An earlier date is likely.

Date of Death

This profile was the result of a bad merge, one part of which was Baldwin IX of Flanders. That Baldwin died in 1205. There is nothing to suggest that this Baldwin died in that same year.

Research notes

TSP (Wigtown) reports Sir Robert Douglas as identifying Baldwin, a Fleming, as the first to come to Scotland, by 1150, and that he and his son Waldeve along with William and Sir Malcolm were ancestors of the following Sir Robert who is the first proven ancestor of this family. Some believe that this family derived from Anselm le Fleming, but we have seen nothing to support that view.

Sources

1. ↑ People of Medieval Scotland (POMS) database: Witnesses

• The peerage of Scotland: containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, ... collected from the public records, and ancient chartularies of this nation, ... Illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Douglas, Esq

• People of Medieval Scotland (POMS) database: Witnesses

• The Scots Peerage, Vol. 8, p. 519-20

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011.