Michael le Fleming of Aldingham

   Another name for Michael was William de Furness.¹³⁰

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:25, wife of Michael le Fleming, the second, and daughter of Gilbert de Lancaster, natural son of William II de Lancaster ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁰
Michael married Agatha, a daughter of Henry, Lord Ravensworth, and succeeded his father as lord of Aldingham. This Michael le Fleming did not get along with his religious neighbors who looked with longing eyes upon his possession, and to have whole peninsula of Furness. Shortly after the accession of Henry III, the abbot paying a fine of 400 marks to the King to have the confirmation of Stephen's charter, "and to have the homage and service of Michael le Fleming for all the land which he held of the King for ten pounds yearly." Michael le Fleming objected to the lowering of his social status from a tenant in capite to that of a vassal of the abbots of Furness so he petitioned the King. The king issued a writ to the sheriff to make inquiry into the circumstances, "because we have been given to understand by our faithful, that we have been deceived in the concession which we made to the abbot of Furness, of the homage and service of Michael Flandrensis."

~Families of Lancashire and Cheshire, pp. 245-246

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁰
Michael married Ada, daughter of Henry fitz Hervey, lord of Ravensworth, and by her had issue of a son, William, who left two sons and two daughters. Of these children, Michael died without issue in March 1169, having been drowned while returning to Aldingham after having dinner with the Prior of Cartmel [Chronicles of Stephen, etc. Rolls Er., II, p. 555]. Their next son was also named William and was the Rector of Aldingham. Eleanor, one of their two daughters eventually succeeded as "lady of Aldingham. She married Sir Richard de Cantsfield, through whom she became the ancestress of the Lords Harington of Aldingham. The other daughter was Margery, wife of Henry de Clifton.

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 72 footnote 105

Michael married Agatha of Ravensworth, daughter of Ranulf Fitz Henry and Alice de Staveley ^160,720.⁹¹⁰ (Agatha of Ravensworth was born in 1197 in Ravensworth, Richmond, North Riding Yorkshire, England ¹⁶⁰.)