Individual Details
Sir Michael Fleming
(1124 - 1186)
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==Michael II le Fleming==
: Sir Michael II le Fleming: Holmes.ged on 20 May 2011. LDS. "FamilySearch® Ancestral File v4.19" Publication: 3 Feb 2001. SLC - Family History Library.
: Larson, Kirk. "Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson." Personal Research Works including Bethune & Hohenlohe Descendants, 1981-2001. Private Library. 23512 Belmar Dr. Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
: Arnaud Bunel. "Héraldique européenne." Coats of Arms for European Royalty and Nobility (http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org, Arnaud Bunel, 1998)
:: "Armigerous" (ahr-MIJ-ehr-us) adjective - Bearing or entitled to bear heraldic arms. The reason the notion of a family crest was brought into the language was that those who were armigerous (entitled to bear arms) ...
: Jonathan Gunnink MyHeritage.com family tree: Smart Matching
: Baron of Caernarvon
: b. 1124 Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvon, Caernarvonshire, Wales
: d. 1186 Cumberland
: Acrossthepond.ged on 21 Feb 2011. Footnote pp. 11. S183
: dates for Michael le Fleming given in William Farrer's Lanc's. Pipe Rolls, etc. are 1127-70 (the last in Pipe Rolls). His son paid fine for livery 1185-6, and Michael must have died a little earlier; Later mention is only of the lands known as his.
===Family===
: m. ____. Issue:
:* William: eldest son; heir to Aldingham Castle and Michael's Lancashire estates. Through William's descendants, they passed to Henry Gray, Marquis of Dorset ... and father of Lady Jane Grey.
:* Sir Richard
: 2nd son; had Beckermet
=== Manors ===
: Manor lord:: Memoirs of Sir Daniel Fleming. Sir Daniel Fleming, ed: W.G. Collingwood. Titus WIlson & Son, Kendal, 1928
* Caernarvon Castle, Beckermet, Cumberland
* Aldingham Castle, Aldingham, Furness, Lancashire
* Gleaston Castle, Gleaston, Furness, Lancashire
===Occupation===
* sent to Cumberland against Scots.: rewarded with the manors of Aldingham and Gleston in Lancashire. William de Meschiens granted him Beckermet Castle, vulgarly at that time called Caernarvon Castle, with several contiguous manors in Copeland, in Cumberland.
===Descendants===
: The present family proceeded from Sir Richard, whose grandson Richard
: m. Elizabeth Urswick possessed Coningstone Hall.
: where he resided and suffered Beckermet to go to decay.
: His descendant Sir Thomas,
: 11th in descent from Sir Michael got Rydal by m. Isabel.: coheir of Sir John de Lancaster of Howgill Castle. His son John omitted the particle in the name.
: Daniel, 19th in descent, made a collection of historical materials respecting the family, and counties of Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire. He was created baronet 04 Oct 1705. His son, William succeeded him in the title and estate, but died without male heirs, so they went to his brother George, D.D. and Bishop of Carlisle, who had several children, but died without surviving male issue, when William Fleming, son of Michael, 6th son of Sir Daniel, 1st Baronet, succeeded; and "in veneration for antiquity," baptized his son by the name of Michael-le, who inherited after his father, and married Diana, only child of Thomas Howard, late Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, by whom he had one daughter, Anne-Frederica-Elizabeth-le, who married her cousin Daniel Fleming, Esq. son of Daniel son of Richard, the eleventh son of Sir Daniel, the first baronet, and who succeeded Sir Michael-le in the estate and title.
:: From "The beauties of England and Wales: or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county (1801) Volume 22" by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, Frederic Shoberl and Reverend John Hodgson.
:: :: Somewhat ironic that Reverend John Hodgson's nephew, William George Hodgson, a surgeon from Carlisle, married Agnes Benson the niece of Sir Daniel Fleming.
: It is unlikely that Michael I le Fleming of Furness was employed under William the Conqueror. He's first mentioned in local records in 1127, and lived a little after 1180, so he was probably born about 1100. But there is no reason to suppose that he was the first of his race in these parts.
: The Pipe Roll of 1130 refers to land at Carlisle, formerly belonging to Gueri the Fleming, who is presumably identical with Wem or Werric " of Weary Holme, Carlisle.
: Mr. T. H. B. Graham, in C. &. W. Transactions, N.S. xxi, 140.
: Around 1610, John Dentonused sources not now extant, represented a colony of Flemings at Carlisle before 1100, and partly transplanted to other places in Cumberland early in the twelfth century.: Acc-t, edit. Ferguson, 10 I, 103. Flimby -- anciently Flemingby -- must have been one of these minor colonies; St. Nicholas' church there is named in the grant to St. Mary's, Carlisle, by Waldeve f. Gospatrick, 1123-50, suggesting an early twelfth century foundation. ... therefore, Flemings on the West Coast as well as in Furness at a time when Michael (I) was hardly old enough to be the first leader of these outposts of the Norman settlement.
: Footnote pp 5 & 6
:: The said Michael le Fleming m. dau. ______. Issue: William le Fleming his eldest son to whom he gave his lordship of Aldingham & castle of Gleston with other lands in ye county of Lancaster: Richard le Fleming his second son to whom he gave his Castle of Caernarvon & Manor of Beckerrnet, with ye Homage & Service, Wards & Reliefs of all ye Freeholders of and in Frisington, Rotington, Weddikar, Kelton, Salter, Arloghden & Brunrigg in ye County of Cumberland, with other Lands in that County and in ye County of Lancaster, wch are yet possesst by his Posterity & Issue Male, lineally for ye most part & sometimes collaterally (for want of Issue Male in ye elder Branch) as appeareth by this true Pedigree gather'd by survey of divers ancient Evidences, Records and other good Authorities yet extant that may approve ye same.
:: His marriage. Ex regist. de Furness in oficio Due-atus Lancastriae. Mo. fol. 171. MO. 707, 708 ,818. Mo. 2. 636, 107. MS. D. 33,34. Beck. 9. Con. 3, V. 5, C.c.2, c.3, c.4, Ac.119. MS. A. 60, 61, 114, b. Cb. 755, Db 2, 99 Ca. 695. Mo. 2, 102. Ms. A. 142 [?], 292
::
:: :: This Michael le Fleming (Fiandrensis or of Furness) was a Person of that Remark, and had such an Estate in Furness, besides what He enjoy'd elsewhere, as Stephen Earl of Bolon & Morton (who was aftenvds. King of England) thought fit to take notice of Him & his Estate in his Charter made A.D. 1126. unto ye Abby of Furness by wch he granted (amongst other Things) quicquid infra Fudemesium continetur przter Terram Michaelis Flameng. To which grant King Henry 1st & others were witnesses. And in Pope Eugenius's Confirmation it is thus expressed: - - Ex dono Comitis Stephani &c. quicquid infra Furnesium continetur przter terram Michaelis Flamengi.
:: :: Sir Daniel is mistaken here as by the date it must have been the father of the Sir Michael to whom he is refering.[[#S183]]
: Henry Fitz Hervey became guardian of Michael's heir in 1202-3; Lanes. Pipe R. 180).From: 'Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Furness', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 2 (1908), pp. 114-131. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38348&strquery=fleming westmorland OR cumberland OR lancashire OR furness OR rydal Date accessed: 26 September 2009.
===Rydal and Loughrigg===
RYDAL AND LOUGHRIGG, the former situated on the north side of the beautiful lake of its name, one mile and a quarter N.W. of Ambleside, and the latter lying between the rivers Brathay and Rothay, from which it rises boldly into a lofty and romantic fell, and extending from half a mile to two miles W. of the same town, form a township which, as Mr. Green says, seems to have been designed by nature for producing extraordinary assemblages of beauty - where "water, wood, rock, and mountain, are rarely seen in greater diversity." Loughrigg contains a tarn of twelve acres, and commands fine views of Windermere, Grasmere, Rydal, and Elterwater lakes. The hamlet of Skelwith Bridge, on the river Brathay, near a waterfall, is in this district, two miles and a half W.S.W. of Ambleside.
Rydal is supposed by Sir Daniel Fleming, to be a contraction of Rothay-dale, from the river which flows from Langdale Pikes through the lakes of Grasmere and Rydal, to that of Windermere, along a picturesque vale, richly clothed with wood. The manor of Rydal and Loughrigg was granted about the year 1280, by Margaret de Brus, to Roger de Lancastre, who held Rydal, with part of Loughrigg and Ambleside, of the king in capite, by the service of the fourth part of a knight's fee. In the reign of Henry VI, Sir Thomas le Fleming, of Coniston, married one of his descendants, by whom he obtained this manor, which has since remained in his family, and is now held by Lady le Fleming. The ancestor of this illustrious family was Michael le Fleming, one of the adventurers who came to England with William the Conqueror. He received a grant of Arlecdon, Beckermet, and several other manors in Cumberland, in Furness, and in Lancashire. He died soon after the year 1154 and was buried in Furness abbey, to which he had been a liberal benefactor. From Richard le Fleming, his second son, who lived at Caernarvon castle, near Beckermet, are descended the Flemings of Rydal.
Note: According to the Eskdale "The Lake Districts' Hidden Gem" web site, there is not much more than a mound of dirt where the castle stood. It probably was a much less important (and smaller) castle than the one in Wales. Beckermet is a village near Whitehaven in Cumberland.
=== Sources ===
* Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.com
----: [[Walker-3314 | Amanda Walker]] [[Wagner-1106 | Travis Wagner]] [[Ballard-380 | Paul Ballard]].
==Michael II le Fleming==
: Sir Michael II le Fleming: Holmes.ged on 20 May 2011. LDS. "FamilySearch® Ancestral File v4.19" Publication: 3 Feb 2001. SLC - Family History Library.
: Larson, Kirk. "Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson." Personal Research Works including Bethune & Hohenlohe Descendants, 1981-2001. Private Library. 23512 Belmar Dr. Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
: Arnaud Bunel. "Héraldique européenne." Coats of Arms for European Royalty and Nobility (http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org, Arnaud Bunel, 1998)
:: "Armigerous" (ahr-MIJ-ehr-us) adjective - Bearing or entitled to bear heraldic arms. The reason the notion of a family crest was brought into the language was that those who were armigerous (entitled to bear arms) ...
: Jonathan Gunnink MyHeritage.com family tree: Smart Matching
: Baron of Caernarvon
: b. 1124 Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvon, Caernarvonshire, Wales
: d. 1186 Cumberland
: Acrossthepond.ged on 21 Feb 2011. Footnote pp. 11. S183
: dates for Michael le Fleming given in William Farrer's Lanc's. Pipe Rolls, etc. are 1127-70 (the last in Pipe Rolls). His son paid fine for livery 1185-6, and Michael must have died a little earlier; Later mention is only of the lands known as his.
===Family===
: m. ____. Issue:
:* William: eldest son; heir to Aldingham Castle and Michael's Lancashire estates. Through William's descendants, they passed to Henry Gray, Marquis of Dorset ... and father of Lady Jane Grey.
:* Sir Richard
: 2nd son; had Beckermet
=== Manors ===
: Manor lord:: Memoirs of Sir Daniel Fleming. Sir Daniel Fleming, ed: W.G. Collingwood. Titus WIlson & Son, Kendal, 1928
* Caernarvon Castle, Beckermet, Cumberland
* Aldingham Castle, Aldingham, Furness, Lancashire
* Gleaston Castle, Gleaston, Furness, Lancashire
===Occupation===
* sent to Cumberland against Scots.: rewarded with the manors of Aldingham and Gleston in Lancashire. William de Meschiens granted him Beckermet Castle, vulgarly at that time called Caernarvon Castle, with several contiguous manors in Copeland, in Cumberland.
===Descendants===
: The present family proceeded from Sir Richard, whose grandson Richard
: m. Elizabeth Urswick possessed Coningstone Hall.
: where he resided and suffered Beckermet to go to decay.
: His descendant Sir Thomas,
: 11th in descent from Sir Michael got Rydal by m. Isabel.: coheir of Sir John de Lancaster of Howgill Castle. His son John omitted the particle in the name.
: Daniel, 19th in descent, made a collection of historical materials respecting the family, and counties of Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire. He was created baronet 04 Oct 1705. His son, William succeeded him in the title and estate, but died without male heirs, so they went to his brother George, D.D. and Bishop of Carlisle, who had several children, but died without surviving male issue, when William Fleming, son of Michael, 6th son of Sir Daniel, 1st Baronet, succeeded; and "in veneration for antiquity," baptized his son by the name of Michael-le, who inherited after his father, and married Diana, only child of Thomas Howard, late Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, by whom he had one daughter, Anne-Frederica-Elizabeth-le, who married her cousin Daniel Fleming, Esq. son of Daniel son of Richard, the eleventh son of Sir Daniel, the first baronet, and who succeeded Sir Michael-le in the estate and title.
:: From "The beauties of England and Wales: or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county (1801) Volume 22" by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, Frederic Shoberl and Reverend John Hodgson.
:: :: Somewhat ironic that Reverend John Hodgson's nephew, William George Hodgson, a surgeon from Carlisle, married Agnes Benson the niece of Sir Daniel Fleming.
: It is unlikely that Michael I le Fleming of Furness was employed under William the Conqueror. He's first mentioned in local records in 1127, and lived a little after 1180, so he was probably born about 1100. But there is no reason to suppose that he was the first of his race in these parts.
: The Pipe Roll of 1130 refers to land at Carlisle, formerly belonging to Gueri the Fleming, who is presumably identical with Wem or Werric " of Weary Holme, Carlisle.
: Mr. T. H. B. Graham, in C. &. W. Transactions, N.S. xxi, 140.
: Around 1610, John Dentonused sources not now extant, represented a colony of Flemings at Carlisle before 1100, and partly transplanted to other places in Cumberland early in the twelfth century.: Acc-t, edit. Ferguson, 10 I, 103. Flimby -- anciently Flemingby -- must have been one of these minor colonies; St. Nicholas' church there is named in the grant to St. Mary's, Carlisle, by Waldeve f. Gospatrick, 1123-50, suggesting an early twelfth century foundation. ... therefore, Flemings on the West Coast as well as in Furness at a time when Michael (I) was hardly old enough to be the first leader of these outposts of the Norman settlement.
: Footnote pp 5 & 6
:: The said Michael le Fleming m. dau. ______. Issue: William le Fleming his eldest son to whom he gave his lordship of Aldingham & castle of Gleston with other lands in ye county of Lancaster: Richard le Fleming his second son to whom he gave his Castle of Caernarvon & Manor of Beckerrnet, with ye Homage & Service, Wards & Reliefs of all ye Freeholders of and in Frisington, Rotington, Weddikar, Kelton, Salter, Arloghden & Brunrigg in ye County of Cumberland, with other Lands in that County and in ye County of Lancaster, wch are yet possesst by his Posterity & Issue Male, lineally for ye most part & sometimes collaterally (for want of Issue Male in ye elder Branch) as appeareth by this true Pedigree gather'd by survey of divers ancient Evidences, Records and other good Authorities yet extant that may approve ye same.
:: His marriage. Ex regist. de Furness in oficio Due-atus Lancastriae. Mo. fol. 171. MO. 707, 708 ,818. Mo. 2. 636, 107. MS. D. 33,34. Beck. 9. Con. 3, V. 5, C.c.2, c.3, c.4, Ac.119. MS. A. 60, 61, 114, b. Cb. 755, Db 2, 99 Ca. 695. Mo. 2, 102. Ms. A. 142 [?], 292
::
:: :: This Michael le Fleming (Fiandrensis or of Furness) was a Person of that Remark, and had such an Estate in Furness, besides what He enjoy'd elsewhere, as Stephen Earl of Bolon & Morton (who was aftenvds. King of England) thought fit to take notice of Him & his Estate in his Charter made A.D. 1126. unto ye Abby of Furness by wch he granted (amongst other Things) quicquid infra Fudemesium continetur przter Terram Michaelis Flameng. To which grant King Henry 1st & others were witnesses. And in Pope Eugenius's Confirmation it is thus expressed: - - Ex dono Comitis Stephani &c. quicquid infra Furnesium continetur przter terram Michaelis Flamengi.
:: :: Sir Daniel is mistaken here as by the date it must have been the father of the Sir Michael to whom he is refering.[[#S183]]
: Henry Fitz Hervey became guardian of Michael's heir in 1202-3; Lanes. Pipe R. 180).From: 'Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Furness', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 2 (1908), pp. 114-131. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38348&strquery=fleming westmorland OR cumberland OR lancashire OR furness OR rydal Date accessed: 26 September 2009.
===Rydal and Loughrigg===
RYDAL AND LOUGHRIGG, the former situated on the north side of the beautiful lake of its name, one mile and a quarter N.W. of Ambleside, and the latter lying between the rivers Brathay and Rothay, from which it rises boldly into a lofty and romantic fell, and extending from half a mile to two miles W. of the same town, form a township which, as Mr. Green says, seems to have been designed by nature for producing extraordinary assemblages of beauty - where "water, wood, rock, and mountain, are rarely seen in greater diversity." Loughrigg contains a tarn of twelve acres, and commands fine views of Windermere, Grasmere, Rydal, and Elterwater lakes. The hamlet of Skelwith Bridge, on the river Brathay, near a waterfall, is in this district, two miles and a half W.S.W. of Ambleside.
Rydal is supposed by Sir Daniel Fleming, to be a contraction of Rothay-dale, from the river which flows from Langdale Pikes through the lakes of Grasmere and Rydal, to that of Windermere, along a picturesque vale, richly clothed with wood. The manor of Rydal and Loughrigg was granted about the year 1280, by Margaret de Brus, to Roger de Lancastre, who held Rydal, with part of Loughrigg and Ambleside, of the king in capite, by the service of the fourth part of a knight's fee. In the reign of Henry VI, Sir Thomas le Fleming, of Coniston, married one of his descendants, by whom he obtained this manor, which has since remained in his family, and is now held by Lady le Fleming. The ancestor of this illustrious family was Michael le Fleming, one of the adventurers who came to England with William the Conqueror. He received a grant of Arlecdon, Beckermet, and several other manors in Cumberland, in Furness, and in Lancashire. He died soon after the year 1154 and was buried in Furness abbey, to which he had been a liberal benefactor. From Richard le Fleming, his second son, who lived at Caernarvon castle, near Beckermet, are descended the Flemings of Rydal.
Note: According to the Eskdale "The Lake Districts' Hidden Gem" web site, there is not much more than a mound of dirt where the castle stood. It probably was a much less important (and smaller) castle than the one in Wales. Beckermet is a village near Whitehaven in Cumberland.
=== Sources ===
* Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.com
----: [[Walker-3314 | Amanda Walker]] [[Wagner-1106 | Travis Wagner]] [[Ballard-380 | Paul Ballard]].
Events
| Birth | 1124 | Caernarvon Castle, Beckermet, Cumberland, England | |||
| Death | 1186 | Beckermet, Cumberland, England | |||
| Reference No | 292501 | ||||
| Reference No | 308096 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Michael Fleming (1085 - 1154) |
| Mother | Alice "Helawise" Stuteville (1088 - ) |
| Sibling | Theobald Le Fleming (1120 - 1193) |
| Sibling | John Fleming (1104 - ) |
| Sibling | Alice Fleming (1118 - ) |
| Sibling | William Fleming (1122 - 1203) |