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Erchenbald le Fleming, 1st Palatine Baron Slane
b. circa 1100, d. circa 1173
Birth
Erchenbald le Fleming, 1st Palatine Baron Slane, was born circa 1100.1
Parents
| Father | Stephen ("of Bratton") Flandrensis (b. circa 1066, d. circa 1146) |
Children
| Son | Richard ("2nd Palatine Baron") le Fleming (b. circa 1150, d. 1176) |
| Daughter | Rose le Fleming (b. circa 1152) |
| Daughter | Joan le Fleming (b. circa 1155) |
| Son | Stephen le Fleming, 3rd palatine baron of Slane+ (b. circa 1156, d. 1213) |
| Son | Baldwin le Fleming (b. circa 1160) |
| Daughter | Alice le Fleming (b. circa 1161) |
Property
Erchenbald le Fleming, 1st Palatine Baron Slane, possessed was granted manors on Somerset and Kent by King Henry I circa 1135.2 He succeeded to his father's fees in Devonshire and Cornwall in 1146 in Bratton Fleming, Devonshire.3 He possessed possessed the family estates whereof his ancestor had been enfeoffed in the reign of Henry I in 1165 in Cornwall.4 He possessed may have owned an estate in 1170 at Crandon manor in Somersetshire.5 He possessed obtained Astmayn and Eskertenen in Tipperary and Newcastle and Slane on the river Boyne after 1171 at Ireland in Astmayn and Eskertenen in Tipperary and Newcastle and Slane on the river Boyne.4 He possessed participated in Hugh de Lacy's plantation of the Kingdom of Mide in 1172.6,7,6 He possessed obtained the lordships of Astmayn and Eskertenen in Tipperary and Newcastle and Slane on the River Boyne in 1173.8
Death
Erchenbald le Fleming, 1st Palatine Baron Slane, died probably during the seige of Verneuil castle by the forces of King Louis VII of France circa 1173 at age ~73 in Verneuil, Normandy.9
Citations
- [S1] F Lawrence Fleming, Exploring the True Heritage of the Fleming family name, first edition (N.p.: F Lawrence Fleming, 2018), p46 & p95.
- [S8] F Lawrence Fleming, A Genealogical History of the Barons Slane (N.p.: Paragon Publishing, 2008), p96.
- [S1] F Lawrence Fleming, Exploring the True Heritage of the Fleming family name, first edition (N.p.: F Lawrence Fleming, 2018), p3 and 46.
- [S99] William Sincock, "Cornish Landholders circa 1200," Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, vol x (between 1890 and 091): number 20, pp 167-168.
- [S8] F Lawrence Fleming, A Genealogical History of the Barons Slane (N.p.: Paragon Publishing, 2008), p99.
- [S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed), Baron Slane.
- [S10] Richard Bligh, The Slane Peerage Case: New Reports of Cases heard in the House of Lords and decided during the session 1836, vol x (London: Saunders and Benning, 1838), p 78; e-book, Google, GoogleBooks (https://archive.org/details/newreportscases06lordgoog/page/n14/mode/2up : accessed.
- [S1] F Lawrence Fleming, Exploring the True Heritage of the Fleming family name, first edition (N.p.: F Lawrence Fleming, 2018), p3 & 53.
- [S1] F Lawrence Fleming, Exploring the True Heritage of the Fleming family name, first edition (N.p.: F Lawrence Fleming, 2018), p48 & p98.
| Last Edited | 17 August 2026 |