Quarterly: 1st and 4th, gules, a chevron within a double tressure counterflory argent (Fleming); 2nd and 3rd, Azure, three cinquefoils argent (Fraser)
Creation date
9 November 1341
Created by
David II of Scotland
Peerage
Peerage of Scotland
First holder
Malcolm Fleming, 1st Earl of Wigtown
Subsidiary titles
Baron Galloway Lord of Cumbernauld Lord of Kirkintilloch Lord Fleming
Seat(s)
Tottenham House
Motto
"Let the deed shaw"[1]
The title of Earl of Wigtown (or Wigton or Wigtoun) was created twice in the Peerage of Scotland. The first creation was in 1341 for Malcolm Fleming, and was surrendered in 1372, when the second Earl sold the Earldom and territory to Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway. The transfer was confirmed by Robert III later in the same year.[2] The Douglas family, Earls of Douglas, held the Earldom of Wigtown for the next hundred years, until the attainder of the 9th Earl of Douglas in 1455.[1]
The second creation was in 1606 for John Fleming, and survived until the death of the 7th earl in 1747, when it became dormant (or extinct).[3] The earls of the second creation bore the subsidiary titles of Lord Fleming and Cumbernauld (1606) and of Lord Fleming (1451, Peerage of Scotland, extinct 1747).
^ abBalfour Paul, James (1904). The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh : D. Douglas. pp. 518-558. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
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