Baudouin Flanders

Not to be confused with Baldwin I, Latin Emperor of Constantinople , who has known parentage, and nothing to do with Knut Folkesson (Bjäbloatten)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_I,_Latin_Emperor

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After the Lords of Annandale, perhaps the most famous appointment in the south of Scotland was that of Baldwin Le Fleming of Biggar as Sheriff of Lanarkshire, another post of strategic importance to the nation’s defence against the Galwegians. With the neighbouring Lindsay and Douglas clans the Flemings imposed peace on, and brought prosperity to, a wide area. Arms of Walter Le Fleming

	 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 in their arms (but Vert not Argent).