Richard (le Fleming) Fleming (abt. 1148 - 1207)

Born about 1148 in Caernarvon Castle, Beckermet, Cumberland, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Biography

Death

Death:

Date: ABT 1207

Note: This Richard le Fleming or Flandrensis was a Knight but when He received that Honour I cannot yet discover; probably not long before his Death was ye time of his being Knighted.

This Sir Richard le Fleming (or Flandrensis) Knight, having lived in ye Reigns of K. Hen. 2. King Rich. I. & of K. John: He dyed pretty ancient & was buried (with his. Father & Bror) in ye Abbey of Furness.^[1]

Residence

Residence:

Place: Fomebuthetwayth

Note: To this Richard Flandrensis William de Skelmeresergh granted (by a Deed without Date) all his Land which Walter Byker once held of Him in Fornebuthetwayth with its Appurtenances in ye Hamlet of Fomebuthetwayth; paying & yielding yearly at Martinmas to ye sd William, his Heirs and assignes a pair of white Gloves for all Demands, with warranty agst all Men & Women. To this Deed were Sir William de Furness (his elder Bror) & divers other Persons of Quality witnesses.^[1]

Residence:

Place: Coningston Water, Cumberland, England

Note: William de Skelsmersherie did grant unto Richard Flandrensis his whole Fishing upon Thurnestane Water (now called Coningston-Water) viz : unum batellurn ad piscandum ibidem ad proprias domus suas & heredum suorum in perpetuum, as freely as He held it of ye gift of Sir William de Lancaster; yielding therefore yearly at Martinmas, a barbed arrow. Witnesses Sr William de Furness (his elder Bro*) &c. Sans Date.^[2]

Note

Note: 95e. (H. 1).Richard Fleming, chamberlain to William de Brus, with consent of his lord, William de Brus, grants to Melros abbey for the souls of his lord Robert de Brus and others, his saltwork at Raynpatrik by its bounds: beyond the highroad towards the north, and thence towards the south by the great creek (crica) to the sea, and from that creek towards the west as far as the saltwork which the monks of Melros hold from William de Brus, and so up the highroad which goes from Blawath to Raynpatrik church; with pasture for four oxen and one horse, and a peat-hearth for the work; rendering to him one pound of pepper at the Assumption of the B.V.M. Witnesses Roland, lord of Galloway, etc. [1194 1200.]

William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale, possessed large estates in the north of England and was 3*Gt Grandfather of Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland.^[3]

Marriage

Husband: Richard le Fleming

Wife: Unknown Skelmeresergh

Child: John le Fleming

Marriage:

Date: ABT 1168^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} CUMBERLAND & WESTMORLAND ANTIQUARIAN W ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society Tract Series, No. XI. "The Memoirs of Sir Daniel Fleming", Second Person: R.E.Porter (Transcriber) Abbreviation: Memoirs of Sir Daniel Fleming Author: Sir Daniel Fleming, Editor: W.G.Collingwood Publication: Titus WIlson & Son, Kendal, 1928
2. ↑ Source: #S183
3. ↑ British History Online, Url: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ Page: From: 'The Register: Tordiff', Register & Records of Holm Cultram (1929), pp. 34-37. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/n-westmorland-records/vol7/pp34-37 westmorland OR cumberland OR lancashire OR furness OR rydal Date accessed: 14 August 2023.
4. ↑ Assumption based upon other evidence but of no proven reliability., Working Hypothesis Author: Paul J Ballard Page: William de Skelmeresergh granted (by a Deed without Date) all his Land in Fornebuthetwayth with its Appurtenances in ye Hamlet of Fomebuthetwayth; [this may have been a dowrey payment]

• Ancestral File (R) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998. Ancestral File Number: 8588-H4

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Le Fleming-55 created through the import of FULL.GED on Jul 10, 2011 by Paul Ballard.

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