[Illustration] Michael le Fleming, living in the reign of William
the Conqueror, is the ancestor of this ancient family, originally
seated in Cumberland and at Gleston, in Furness, in Lancashire.
Isabel, daughter of Sir John de Lancastre, living in the sixth of
Henry VI., having married Sir Thomas le Fleming, of Coniston,
Knight, seated the Flemings at Rydal, ever since the residence of
the family.
See Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. p. 150; and Wotton's Baronetage,
vol. iv. p. 105.
ARMS.--_Gules, fretty argent_. The present coat, called "The arms of
Hoddleston," with a label vert, was borne by John Fleming de
Westmerland in the reign of Edward III. (Roll.) A more ancient coat,
according to Wotton, was a _Fleur-de-lis, within a roundell_.
Present Representative, Sir Michael le Fleming, 7th Baronet.
+Gentle.+