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Wigtown (/ ˈ w ɪ ɡ t ən ˌ-t aʊ n / (both used locally); Scottish Gaelic: Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, within the Dumfries and Galloway region in Scotland.
The 11th-century ex-King of Dublin and Mann, Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, had the title Rex Innarenn, "King of the Rhinns", attributed to him on his death in 1065 AD. [citation needed] The western sections of Galloway had been firmly aligned with the Isle of Man, and Norse and Gaelic-Norse settlement names from the 10th and 11th centuries are spread all along the coastal lands of south-western ...
Earl of Wigtown (or Wigton or Wigtoun) is an extinct title created twice in the Peerage of Scotland. The first creation was in 1341 for Malcolm Fleming of Clan Fleming , and was surrendered in 1372, when the second Earl sold the Earldom and territory to Archibald the Grim , Lord of Galloway .
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Douglas and Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Douglas and Bothwell (c. 1330 – c. 24 December 1400), called Archibald the Grim or Black Archibald, was a late medieval Scottish nobleman. Archibald was the illegitimate son of Sir James "the Black" Douglas, Robert the Bruce's trusted lieutenant, and an unknown mother.
John Fleming married Lilias Graham, daughter of John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose in 1586. Their children included: John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown (1589-1650), who was baptised at Kincardine Castle on 5 December 1589.
Malcolm Fleming, Earl of Wigtown (died c. 1363) was the son of Robert Fleming of Clan Fleming, a Stewart vassal and holder of the lands of Fulwood and Cumbernauld, who died sometime before 1314. He was the "foster-father" of King David II of Scotland and became the first man to hold the title Earl of Wigtown .
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Covenanters' Graves Tortures shown in panel from A Cloud of Witnesses, first published in 1714. [1]The Wigtown Martyrs or Solway Martyrs, Margaret Maclauchlan and Margaret Wilson, were Scottish Covenanters who were executed by Scottish Episcopalians on 11 May, 1685 in Wigtown, Scotland, for refusing to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring James VII of Scotland as head of the church.