Sir Michael le Fleming

No valid source for his birth in Normandy, France. (Has anyone tried checking the Low Countries? His name means "The Fleming", implying ancestry from Flanders.)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muchland

Muchland derives its name from Micheal's Land after Michael le Fleming who was granted the lands by Henry I sometime between 1107 and 1111. These lands lay eastwards of Abbey Beck and southwards of the moors of Birkrigg and Swarthmoor and stretched right down to the southern-most tip of the peninsula at Rampside.[1] At that time the southern limit of the manor was Walney Channel, but it was later moved inland to follow the line of Sarah Beck or Roosebeck. This land became the new manor of Aldingham

His father may have been William le Fleming, b. c. 1059.

REF: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/m/Karen-M-Simmons/WE...

Notes for Michael Le Fleming:

Note: BIOGRAPHY: Sir Michael Flameng or Flandrensis (ie. "Flemish" in Latin) or Furnes (derived from property owned by the family at Furness, Lancs); flourishing 1127; ancestor of the Fleming line, Baronets of Rydal Hall, Westmorland. [Burke's Peerage] 1 2

Children of Michael Le Fleming and Miss De Stuteville are:

• Theobaold Le Fleming, b. 1125, Aldingham Manor, Lancashire, England, d. date unknown, Scotland.

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• Background Information. The Lancashire estates of Aldingham were in the hands of the Flemings from almost the time of the Conquest. Michael Flandrensis, or le Fleming, most likely a father or grandfather of Sir Michael was a military adventurer who came to England out of Flanders and is said to have been in the retinue of Duke William of Normandy. He took part in the struggle on the red field or Senlac, where the last of the Saxon kings fell, and Battle Abbey. When the Conqueror had established his position, he rewarded his faithful followers with a grant of the Manor of Aldingham, of which the Saxon thegn, Ernulf, had previously disposed.

There were likely successive members of the family named Michael le Fleming, son after son. The first Michael le Fleming likely died sometime shortly after the conquest. ~Families of Lancashire and Cheshire, pg. 243-245

Sources

• Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists who came to New England between 1623 and 1650, Frederick Lewis Weis, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. Fifth Edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1979. 41:25

Links

• http://cybergata.com/roots/4211.htm http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/fleming01.htm

Sources: 1 various web sites including www.geneajourney.com/flemng.html 2 BP1934 Fleming, Bart of Rydal, BLG1886 Fleming of Rayrigg and Belfield with some support from BLG1886 Le Fleming of Rydal