Balduin I. (Baudouin I.) FLEMING OF BIGGAR

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nach den Lords of Annandale war die vielleicht ber&uuml;hmteste Ernennungim S&uuml;den Schottlands die von Baldwin Le Fleming of Biggar zum Sheriff von Lanarkshire, ein weiterer Posten von strategischer Bedeutung f&uuml;r die Verteidigung der Nation gegen die Galwegianer.Zusammen mit den benachbarten Clans Lindsay und Douglas zwangen die Flamen einem weiten Gebiet Frieden auf und brachten ihm Wohlstand. Wappen von Walter Le Fleming</span></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Baldwin married the so far unnamed widow of Reginald, the fourth son of Alan, Earl of Richmond (and thus cousin to Conan who married the Lady Margaret, sister of King Malcolm IV). She may have been a Lindsay by birth, and thus of one of those influential families in the area claiming Flemish ancestry. (Douglas was another, as was also Bruce in Annandale.) Baldwin Le Fleming of Biggar It is in Annandale that we first find mention of Baldwin. He was granted lands at Kirkpatrick (to be known later as Kirkpatrick-Fleming) and there he built Redhall Tower. Beryl Platts in Scottish Hazard (Procter Press) has proposed that he arrived there from the Devonshire lands granted to his family by King William the Conqueror, and that his Flemish origins are probably traceable to Gavere, near Ghent, where the Gavere seigneurs bore also the double tressure flory-counterflory intheir arms (but Vert not Argent).</span></span></strong></p>

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