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Sir Christopher Fleming, 8th (14th?) Baron Slane
b. before 1474, d. 1518
Birth
Sir Christopher Fleming, 8th (14th?) Baron Slane, was born before 1474.
Parents
| Father | Sir James Fleming, 7th (13th??) Baron Slane (b. circa 1421, d. 1491) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Welles, dau of Lord Chancellor Welles (b. circa 1442, d. 1506) |
Family life
Sir Christopher Fleming, 8th (14th?) Baron Slane, and Lady Ellis FitzGerald were married circa 1500.1 He and Elizabeth Stucley were married circa 1514.1
Children with Lady Ellis FitzGerald (b. circa 1474, d. circa 1513)
| Son | James ("Black James") Fleming, 9th (15th?) Baron Slane (b. circa 1508, d. 1577) |
| Daughter | Catherine Fleming (b. circa 1510) |
| Daughter | Eleanor Fleming (b. circa 1512) |
Partner with Elizabeth Stucley (b. circa 1470)
Working life
- From 1514 to 1517 Sir Christopher Fleming, 8th (14th?) Baron Slane, was occupied as Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.2
Property
Sir Christopher Fleming, 8th (14th?) Baron Slane, possessed inhertited the Barony of Slane from his late father in 1492.1 He possessed built a Franciscan friary and college on the site of an earlier abbey in 1512 in Slane, Ireland.1,2 He possessed re-founded and built in stone the ancient hermitage of St Erc on the castle grounds in 1513 in Slane, Ireland.3
Death
Sir Christopher Fleming, 8th (14th?) Baron Slane, died in 1518.4
Citations
- [S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed), Christopher Fleming, 8th Baron Slane.
- [S8] F Lawrence Fleming, A Genealogical History of the Barons Slane (N.p.: Paragon Publishing, 2008), p60.
- [S1] F Lawrence Fleming, Exploring the True Heritage of the Fleming family name, first edition (N.p.: F Lawrence Fleming, 2018), p61.
- [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 91; e-book, Google, GoogleBooks (https://archive.org/details/newreportscases06lordgoog/page/n14/mode/2up : accessed.
| Last Edited | 12 November 2025 |