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Christopher Fleming, 4th Baron Slane
b. before 1445, d. 1457
Birth
Christopher Fleming, 4th Baron Slane, was born before 1445.
Parents
| Father | John Fleming (b. circa 1415, d. 1445) |
| Mother | Anna Rochfort (b. circa 1420) |
Property
Christopher Fleming, 4th Baron Slane, possessed inherited the estates of his grandfather Christopher Fleming circa 1448.
Death
Christopher Fleming, 4th Baron Slane, died in 1457. He having no issue, his barony of Slane and the manors of Croyde and Highbray were settled on his uncle, David Fleming, being next of kin. The remainder of his estate went to his two sisters, Ann Dillon and Amia Bellew. Anne and Walter Dillon took the manor house at Chymwell as their residence, thus taking the Fleming out of Bratton Fleming. The Dillon family resided there for several generations until the early seventeenth century when the manor came into the possession of the Chichester family and the Dillons moved to Northamptonshire. Amia Bellew and her husband John settled in Alverdiscott.1,2
Citations
- [S10] Richard Bligh, The Slane Peerage Case, p 50, 53 & 87
- [S1] F Lawrence Fleming, Exploring the True Heritage of the Fleming family name, p59
| Last Edited | 10 March 2019 |