Christian de Stainton

  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 her life were:

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁰
From a charter, Anselm refers to "my uncle, auunculus, Bernard de Staunton," it is evident that she was the sister and heiress of Bernard fitz Gilbert and daughter of Gilbert, lord of Stainton in Kendal. The latter may possibly have been identical with Gilbert, younger brother of William I de Lancaster, lord of Kendal.

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 71

Christian married Sir Michael le Fleming Knight, son of Michael le Fleming and Daugter of Robert Stuteville.¹⁶⁰ (Sir Michael le Fleming Knight died in 1186 in England ^160,910.)