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Abbot Thomas ("Placidus") Fleming

b. 15 October 1642, d. 8 January 1720

Abbot Thomas ("Placidus") Fleming was born on 15 October 1642 at Ayrshire in Kirkoswald.¹

Father

Alexander Fleming (b. circa 1610, d. before 13 April 1661)

Before 1664 Abbot Thomas ("Placidus") Fleming was occupied as Royal Naval Officer in service of the Duke of York.²
In 1668 Abbot Thomas ("Placidus") Fleming was occupied as monk in the Scottish monastery at Regensberg at Scottish monastery in Regensberg.
On 28 March 1671 Abbot Thomas ("Placidus") Fleming was occupied as Priest at Scottish monastery in Regensberg.^1,3
On 5 December 1672 Abbot Thomas ("Placidus") Fleming was occupied as elected Abbot.¹

Abbot Thomas ("Placidus") Fleming died on 8 January 1720 at age 77.¹

[S97] William Forbes-Leith, Records of the Scots Colleges: at Douai, Rome, Madrid, Valladolid and Ratisbon (Aberdeen: New Spalding Club, 1906), vol i, p 264; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/recordsofscotsco00news/page/n5/mode/2up : viewed 15 April 2025.
[S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: viewed 15 April 2025), Fleming, Thomas Placidus at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Placidus_Fleming, originally in German.
[S145] Halloran, Brian Michael. The Scots College, Paris, 1653-1792, Thesis submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of St Andrews, 1996. URL: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/13645, p 72

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16 October 2026