Everything about Malcolm Fleming Earl Of Wigtown totally explained
Malcolm Fleming, Earl of Wigtown († 1363) was the son of Robert Fleming, a Stewart vassal and holder of the lands of
Fulwood and
Cumbernauld, who died sometime before 1314. He was the "foster-father" of King
David II of Scotland and became the first man to hold the title
Earl of Wigtown.
Malcolm was given the
barony of
Kirkintilloch forfeited from the Comyns by King
Robert I of Scotland during the
First War of Scottish Independence and received other lands in
Lennox and
Wigtownshire. Malcolm became
Sheriff of
Dumbarton and keeper of the castle thereafter.
Malcolm was on the defeated Bruce side at the
Battle of Halidon Hill in July 1333, but managed to escape, and fled back to Dumbarton. He was partly responsible for sending the boy king, Robert's son
David II from Dumbarton to exile in
France. When David II returned to Scotland in 1341, David granted Malcolm much of western
Galloway (Wigtownshire) and the burgh of
Wigtown, and created for him the new title, "
Earl of Wigtown". It was the first new earldom in Scotland for more than a century (the last was the
earldom of Sutherland). Presumably the intention was to re-establish the power of the Bruce dynasty in the strongly Balliol province.
On
October 17, 1346, Malcolm was captured at the
Battle of Neville's Cross and imprisoned by Robert Bertram, sheriff of
Northumberland, but escaped the following year to Scotland. Malcolm remained a favourite of David II. He married a woman called Marjorie, possibly a
native Galwegian who became David II's nurse. He had four known children, an eldest son (name uncertain) who died before 1351, an eldest daughter (name uncertain), a daughter named Marjorie and another daughter named "Evota". Malcolm died either in 1363 or sometime shortly before this year, and was succeeded by his grandson
Thomas, heir since 1351.
Malcolm's successor to the earldom of Wigtown, his grandson Thomas, had grave financial problems and was stripped of the rights of regality given to his grandfather. The recreation of the
Lordship of Galloway for
Archibald the Grim in 1369 posed some conceptual problems for the earldom, as it fell within the old territories of the lordship. Thomas found himself in grave financial difficulties and sold the earldom to Archibald in 1372.
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