Fleming

Clan Crest: A goat’s head erased, Argent, armed, Or

Clan Motto: Let The Deed Shaw

Lands: Lanarkshire

Historic Seat: Boghall Castle

Clan Chief: The last living chief was Charles Fleming, The 7th Earl of Wigtown (died 1747)

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Fleming Clan History

Meaning ‘native of Flanders’. Several people of this name are found in the 12th century. A family of this name posessed large territories in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, where their residence was Boghall Castle near Biggar. Boghall Castle, now ruinous, was built by Clan Fleming on lands gifted to them in the 14th century.

Theobald the Fleming had a grant of land on the Douglas Water from the abbott of Kelso between 1147 and 1160.

Baldwin the Fleming was sheriff of Lanark around 1150 and Jordan Fleming was taken prisoner at Alnwick along with William the Lion in 1174.

Around 1177 Symone Flamench witnessed a charter by Eschina, wife of Walter the Steward.

Ricardus Flammanc witnessed a charter by Robert Bruce around 1190.

William Flandrensis witnessed a gift of the church of Guthrie to the Abbey of Arbroath by William the Lion.

William le Fleming, a knight of Lanarkshire rendered homage in 1296.

James Fleeman (1713-1778) held the position of ‘fool’ for the family of Udny of that Ilk, the last family in Scotland to have maintained one.

Fleming Places & People

People of Clan Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955)

Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1945 for discovering the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928.

Fleming Tartans

There is no official Fleming clan tartan. Flemings and those associated with the name, however, can wear the Murray of Atholl tartans as a sept of Clan Murray of Atholl.

Modern Murray of Atholl

Fleming Crest & Coats of Arms

Clan Fleming Coat of Arms

Worn by everyone with the same name and ancestry

Description of the Crest: 

Argent, armed with a goat's head erased, Or

Coats of Arms of Clan Fleming

A word about Coats of Arms:

A coat of arms is granted to an individual under Scottish heraldic law (with the exception of civic or corporate arms). A 'family coat of arms' does not exist. With the exceptions noted above, the arms depicted below are personal arms. Only the person who has been granted these weapons has the right to use them. 

FLEMING (simple)

A chevron gules within a double tressure, flory counterflory, Argent

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Earl of Wigtown FLEMING

Quarterly, Gules, a chevron within a double tressure, flory, counterflory, Argent (for Fleming); Azure, three fraises, Argent (for Fraser); 2nd and 3rd, Azure, three fraises, Argent (for Fraser).

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