Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the James Fleming stained glass window on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Meadowside St Paul's Church in Dundee, Tayside. In memory of James Fleming 1905. The surname Fleming is derived from the French, le Fleming, which indicates that the family originated in Flanders. The once powerful medieval principality of Flanders is now split between Belgium, the Netherlands and France. During the latter part of the twelfth century the Flemish were enterprising merchants who traded with England, Scotland and Wales. A distinguished Flemish leader named Baldwin settled with his followers in Biggar, South Lanarkshire under a grant of King David I of Scotland. Baldwin became Sheriff of Lanark under King Malcolm IV of Scotland and William the Lion and this office appears to have been hereditary for some time. In 1296 nine Flemings signed fealty to King Edward I of England. However, one of the signatories was Sir Robert Fleming who was one of the first people to join Robert the Bruce after the death of the Comyn in 1306. In 1342 Sir Malcolm Fleming of Cumbernauld was created Earl of Wigtown by King David II of Scotland for helping to keep him safe from Edward Balliol and the English. In 1371 Sir Malcolm's grandson, Thomas Fleming, sold the earldom to Archibald Douglas, Lord of Galloway and this was confirmed by king Robert II of Scotland. John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming, was appointed as a guardian to King James V of Scotland during the king's infancy in July 1515. In 1517 John became Chancellor of Scotland. However while he was out hawking on 1 November 1524, he was assassinated by John Tweedie of Drummelzier, chief of Clan Tweedie, and others. Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming was Great Chamberlain of Scotland and married Lady Janet Stewart, daughter of King James IV of Scotland. This Malcolm Fleming was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547. In 1548 James Fleming, 4th Lord Fleming accompanied the young Mary, Queen of Scots to France where she married the heir to the throne. He was Great Chamberlain of Scotland for life and was one of eight commissioners to the royal wedding in 1558. However he died of suspected poisoning two weeks later in Paris. The Clan Fleming were Jacobites and the 6th earl attended James II of England and VII of Scotland after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Fleming opposed the Treaty of Union and voted against every article in the Parliament of 1706. During the Jacobite rising of 1715 he was arrested by the governor of Edinburgh Castle. Charles Fleming had succeeded his brother as the earl but when he died in 1747 the title became dormant. Alexander Fleming who discovered Penicillin is the most distinguished bearer of the name in recent times.
The surname Fleming was also t found in the eastern Irish county of Meath in Ireland. There, the family acquired considerable estates and built the Castle Slane. William Fleming, a English convict from Southampton, England, who was transported aboard the " Andromeda " on November 13, 1832, settling in New South Wales, Australia. Michael Fleming, a British settler travelling from Portsmouth, England, aboard the ship " Duke of Portland " arrived in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 13th October 1851. Margaret Fleming, aged 20, arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1834 aboard the brig " Maria " from Cork, Ireland.
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