Forthcoming book - "Scotland's Fleming Clan - Volume 2: Rise and Fall"

Forthcoming book - "Scotland's Fleming Clan - Volume 2: Rise and Fall"

This second volume builds on the first volume’s origin story to narrate the family’s successes and challenges from 1400 to 1750 and beyond.

Having risen alongside the Stewart monarchs, the family’s fortunes rose and fell as they remained (mainly) loyal through thick and thin. This volume recounts the family’s participation in every historical intrigue, from the Black Dinner and Sauchieburn in the 15^th century; through the “rough wooing”, the reformation and the civil war in the 16^th; the union of crowns and the Bishops’ Wars and more in the 17^th; to the Jacobite rising in the 18^th.

Fleming leaders’ fortunes waxed and waned in line with the success or struggle of their political faction. Their leaders were assassinated in 1406, 1440, 1524 and 1558; killed in battle in 1547; and sentenced to death for treason in 1568. They nevertheless served the kingdom in many important roles, including Ambassador, Chamberlain and Privy Councillor before eventually being elevated to the peerage and created Earls of Wigtown.

The family’s most telling shortcoming was its failure to perpetuate the dynasty. The failure of the male line in 1747 brought an end to the hereditary titles and resulted in the neglect and eventual break up of their large real estate portfolio.

Without a leader for nearly three centuries, the family’s significant contribution to Scottish history has been all but forgotten. Scotland’s Fleming Clan seeks to overcome that shortcoming.

Forget the legends. Learn the facts!

These books would be of particular interest to anyone descended from Flemings in Scotland or those interested in the earliest history of the Scottish kingdom. The second volume is planned for release during 2028.

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