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Simon Fleming, 1st Baron Slane

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to England to outline their grievances, and King Edward III appointed him to a royal commission to consider what reforms to government were necessary. The reform party had some success: in particular, they secured the removal from office, for a time, of
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1358 – c. 1434/1435), who with his own son Christopher cut a rather villainous path in the 1390s. He also had at least two daughters, Matilda, who married Luke Cusack, and Margaret, who married Sir William Basset of
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of 1370. He became the lord of Slane in 1335 on the death of his father. In 1346 he served as Commissioner of the Peace in
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In 1363–64 he was a prominent member of the "reform party", which campaigned against the widespread
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Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland- the English of Louth and their Neighbours 1330-1450
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and maladministration of the Irish Government: he was part of a powerful delegation sent by the
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Simon married Cecily Champernowne, daughter of Sir Thomas Champernowne, of
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to the Crown, but Simon recovered it three years later. He had been
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whose holding of the title can be conclusively established.
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Fleming was a descendant of Archembald le Fleming of
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Baron Slane

Bratton Fleming
Devon
Henry II of England
Hugh de Lacy
Kingdom of Mide
Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville
Justiciar of Ireland
Irish Parliament
County Meath
forfeit
knighted
Lionel of Antwerp
Edward III
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Cornwall
corruption
Irish House of Commons
Thomas de Burley
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Modbury
Kat Ashley
Elizabeth I
Walter Raleigh
Thomas
Tehidy
The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 102, Part 1
G. E. C.
Oxford University Press

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