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James ("Black James") Fleming, 9th (15th?) Baron Slane

b. circa 1508, d. 1577

Birth

James ("Black James") Fleming, 9th (15th?) Baron Slane, was born circa 1508.^1,2

Parents

Father	Sir Christopher Fleming, 8th (14th?) Baron Slane (b. before 1474, d. 1518)
Mother	Lady Ellis FitzGerald (b. circa 1474, d. circa 1513)

Family life

James ("Black James") Fleming, 9th (15th?) Baron Slane, and Alice Fitzgerald were married circa 1538.³ He and Ellis Plunkett were married circa 1555.³

Partner with Alice Fitzgerald (b. circa 1510)

Partner with Ellis Plunkett (b. circa 1520)

Working life

In 1576 James ("Black James") Fleming, 9th (15th?) Baron Slane, was occupied as Lord Justice of Ireland.⁴

Property

James ("Black James") Fleming, 9th (15th?) Baron Slane, possessed inherited the barony of Slane from his late father in 1518.^3,5 He possessed settled certain property on his sister Catherine in 1541.⁶

Death

James ("Black James") Fleming, 9th (15th?) Baron Slane, died in 1577 at age ~69.^3,5

Citations

[S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed), Christopher Fleming, 8th 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 53; 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), p62.
[S8] F Lawrence Fleming, A Genealogical History of the Barons Slane (N.p.: Paragon Publishing, 2008), p60.
[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 2; e-book, Google, GoogleBooks (https://archive.org/details/newreportscases06lordgoog/page/n14/mode/2up : accessed.
[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.

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Last Edited

12 November 2025