Aliénor le Fleming Lady of Aldingham

   Other names for Aliénor were Alice le Fleming,⁷²⁰ Alicia le Fleming ¹⁶⁰ and Aline le Fleming.¹⁶⁰

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 34:29, mentions she was Lady of Aldingham. Names given for her are Aline, Alicia or Aliénor. ¹⁶⁰

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Harringdon), Vol. VI, p 314 ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁰
William, son of Michael le Fleming, succeeded, who was in turn followed by another Michael, who appears to have died young, leaving a widow, Alina, but no issue. The manor passed to the next heir, Alice, sister of Michael le Fleming, who conveyed it in marriage to Sir Richard Cancefield, Knight, lord of Cancefield and Farlton. She survived her husband, and her name occurs during her widowhood as confirming a grant of lands to the Abbey of Cockersand. The issue of the marriage was two sons, John and William, and a daughter Agnes.

John, the eldest son, married, but died childless. The inheritance went to his younger brother William, who was aminor at the time and a ward of the abbot of Furness, who in right of his wardship entered into possession of the manor. The feeling of hostility entertained by the lords of Aldingham towards the fraternity at Furness, though it had slumbered fro a time, was manifested with renewed vigor by the William. It is recorded that William Cancefield with the aide of several friend, ejected the representative of the abbot from the possession of his lands, for which offense the sheriff was directed to seize the manor and deliver it into the custody of the abbot until the offender should be of age. William reached an age of jamority in 1292, in which year he made proof of his titled to the various manorial rights. he married, yet died without issue. His estates passed to his sister who was married to Robert de Haryngton, who in his wife's right, became the lord of Aldingham.

~Families of Lancashire and Cheshire, pg. 246-247

Aliénor married Sir Richard Cancefield Lord of Cancefield and Lancaster, son of Sir John de Cancefield Knight and Unknown ^141,160,720.^,1031 (Sir Richard Cancefield Lord of Cancefield and Lancaster was born in Cantsfield, Thurland, Lancashire, England and died circa 1269 in Farleton, Lancashire, England ¹⁰³¹.)