Also known as Michael le Fleming.
Events
Date of Birth: 1197.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Weis (p. 43, 34-27). The Lancashire VCH (8:sub Furness fn 73) notes that “[i]n an old statement of the descent, somewhat confused, William is said to have had two sons, Michael and Daniel, of whom the former was six years old at his father’s death.” The VCH puts William’s death in about 1203.
Living: 1205, 1219.
The dates are given by the Lancashire VCH (8:sub Furness).
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: William de Furness.
This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (8:sub Furness).
(presumed) Mother: Aline (Alice, Ada).
Aline is given as the wife of William by the Lancashire VCH (8:sub Furness).
Spouse: unknown.
Weis (p. 43; 34-27) gives Agatha, daughter of Ranulph fitz Henry and granddaughter of Henry fitz Hervey, lord of Ravensworth. Washington (p. 72 fn 105) states that she was Ada, daughter of Henry fitz Hervey, lord of Ravensworth. Hervey (died 1182) was the son of Akaris (died 1161), who was the son of Bardolf of Ravensworth (Clay p. 73, Keats-Rohan p. 910). Neither Clay nor Keats-Rohan mention Agatha/Ada.
Children:
William de Furness married Joan.
Evidence
Michael’s descendants are given in the Coucher Book of Furness Abbey (p. 89).
References
Brownbill, John, and John Christopher Atkinson (eds.). The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey. (Manchester: Printed for the Chetham Society, volume 9 New Series, 1886; volume 11, 1887).
Clay, John William. The Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England (London: 1913).
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 (Victoria County Histories, 1914).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Washington, S. H. Lee. The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh. (Boston, 1942).
Weis, Frederick Lewis, and Walter Lee Sheppard,Jr. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (8th ed.) (Baltimore, 2004).