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Abbot Thomas ("Placidus") Fleming

Birth

Working life

• 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. Thomas Fleming who was ordained in 1671 as a Benedictine monk with the religious name of Placidus was a descendant of the earls of Wigton.^1,3
• On 5 December 1672 Abbot Thomas ("Placidus") Fleming was occupied as elected Abbot. Wiki -
  During his almost 50 years of activity, he succeeded in renovating the monastery financially and securing the legal status of the monastery. One of his first steps was to secure the exemption of the monastery from the Bishop of Regensburg and the preservation of his own rights. Due to the improvement of the economic situation of the monastery, a larger number of monks could also be accommodated; at the beginning of his ministry there were only four conventuals left in the monastery, by the time of his death 19 monks had made their profession. His merits also include the rescue of the branch abbey of St. Jakob in Erfurt and here he received two chairs of philosophy at the University of Erfurt for the Scots from the Elector of Mainz; however, he did not succeed in regaining the Schottenstift in Vienna.¹

Death

Citations

1. [S97] William Forbes-Leith, Records of the Scots Colleges, vol i, p 264
2. [S2] Various contributors, Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed ), ., viewed; 15 April 2025; Fleming, Thomas Placidus at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Placidus_Fleming, originally in German
3. [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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Last Edited

10 August 2025