James Fleming, 7th Baron Slane

Who is James Fleming, 7th Baron Slane?

James Fleming was a member of the Irish Parliament in 1491 and sheriff of County Meath.

James was the son of William Fleming and his wife, the former Janet Rochfort. He succeeded to the title of his first cousin once removed, Thomas Fleming, 6th Baron Slane, in 1471. He was one of the eleven Irish barons who came to Greenwich on Henry VII of England's summons in 1489.

He married Elizabeth Welles, daughter of Sir William Welles, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and his wife Anne Barnewall; Elizabeth, who had previously been married to the second Baron Killeen, died in 1506. Their children were:

Christopher Fleming, 8th Baron Slane

two younger sons, Thomas and George, from whom later Barons were descended.

The Annals of Ulster state that James' death was due to the first recorded Irish outbreak of sweating sickness, Ireland having escaped the English epidemic of 1485.