Simon Fleming

• Preferred Name: Simon Fleming^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Flandrensis
  
• Gender: M
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 7th Baron of Slane
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 1st Lord of Slane
  
• Death: 13 SEP 1370 in Irelands Eye, County Dublin, Ireland at LATI: N3.4067 LONG: E6.0625
  
• Birth: 1327 in Slane Castle, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.7094 LONG: E6.5825
  
• FSID: LZJQ-WDD
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 2nd Lord Fleming
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Simon Fleming (died 1370) is the first Baron Slane whose holding of the title can be conclusively established.
  
  Slane Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland
  Fleming was a descendant of Archembald le Fleming of Bratton Fleming, Devon, who was alive in 1087. Archembald's grandson, Archembald fitz Stephen le Fleming, came to Ireland with King Henry II of England in 1171 and participated in Hugh de Lacy's plantation of the kingdom of Kingdom of Mide. He was the great-great grandfather of Simon. Simon was the son of Sir Baldwin Fleming, and Maud de Geneville, daughter of Simon de Geneville of Culmullin and Joan Fitz Leones. The elder Simon was a younger son of Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville, Justiciar of Ireland.
  
  Simon was a member of the Irish Parliament of 1370. He became the lord of Slane in 1335 on the death of his father. In 1346 he served as Commissioner of the Peace in County Meath. In 1352 Slane was declared forfeit to the Crown, but Simon recovered it three years later. He had been knighted before 1365. He was in close attendance on Lionel of Antwerp, younger son of King Edward III, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, during his years in Ireland. He spent much of his time in England, and acquired extensive lands in Devon and Cornwall (he was related by marriage to a number of prominent local families, notably the Basssetts and Champernownes).
  
  In 1363-4 he was a prominent member of the "reform party", which campaigned against the widespread corruption and maladministration of the Irish Government: he was part of a powerful delegation sent by the Irish House of Commons to England to outline their grievances, and King Edward III appointed him to a royal commission to consider what reforms to government were necessary. The reform party had some success: in particular they secured the removal from office, for a time, of Thomas de Burley, the notoriously corrupt Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
  
  === Family Group Records. ===
  Family Group Records.
  
  === Name Suffix: 1st Lord Ancestral Fi ===
  Name Suffix: 1st Lord Ancestral File Number: 858G-W1
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

• m. ABT 1347 in Devon, England

1. Margaret Fleming, b. ABT 1347 in Slane Castle, County Meath, Ireland     d. 7 AUG 1387 in Tehidy, Cornwall, England
2. Mathilde Fleming, b. ABT 1352 in Ireland    

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Simon FLEMING -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
   
2. Title: Baron Slane Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Slane#:~:text=Baron%20Slane%20was%20a%20title,family%20but%20forfeited%20in%201691.;
   Note: Indicates Christopher as father of John Fleming by his first wife, Levita Ferrers of Bere Ferrers.
   
3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Simon FLEMING -
   Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2676700743