Aliénor le Fleming
- Marriage: Ralph d’Eyncourt 160,910
- Died: After 1233, England
Another name for Aliénor was Aliénor de Furness.160
General Notes:
~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:26, wife of Ralph d'Eyncourt, of Sizergh, Westmorland, daughter of Agnes of Dunbar and Anselm le Fleming (a.k.a. de Furness) 160
Noted events in her life were:
• Background Information. 910 The Sizergh muniments make it clear tha Eleanor, wife of Ralph d'Encourt, was one of the daughters and co-heiressess of Anselm le Fleming, alias de Furness, from whom she inherited the manor of Stainton in Kendal, with lands at Yanwath, co. WEstmorland, and Drigg, co Cumberland. By charter of about 1210-1215, Anselum de "Furnesia" gave to Ralph de "Aiencurt," in futher increase of the property which the said Ralph held in free marriage with Eleanor, the grantor's daughter, "the hall of Stayneton, with its precincts, garden, and vivary." [Sizerg MSS] Anselm was the younger son of Michael le Fleming, lord of Aldingham, co. Lancaster; while his wife Alice was a niece, maternally, of Walter de Greystoke and a daughter of the great house of Dunbar.
Ralph d' Eyncourt and his wife Elenor le Fleming weem to have left at least two sons, Sir Ralph of Sizergh, who is called "son of Ralph and grandson of Gervase" in a charter of about 1245; and Peter who married Avice daughter and co-heiress of William Applethwaite, by whom he was father of another Sir Ralph d'Eyncourt, who served as corner of Cumberland in 1300 and a commissioner to assess the Subsidy there in 1301.
The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 64
The records make it clear that Anselm le Fleming and his wife Agnes of Dunbar left four daughters and co-heiresses: (1) Eleanor, wife of Ralph d'Eyncourt of Sizergh, who acquired lands at Yanwath and Drigg and the manor of Stainton in Kendal jure uxoris. (2) Erneburga, wife of Richard de Preston [Feet of Fines, Westmorland, 10 John, no. 30; Coucher Book of Furness, Chetham Soc., pt. II, p.94] Their son Richardard married Amabel de Strickland and was an ancestor of the Prestons of Preston Richard, co. Westmorland. (3) Isabel, wife of Thomas fitz John [Wilson, St. Bees, Surtees Soc., pp. 538-9] (4) A daugther who married Patrick de Borwick, of Borwick in Warton, Lancashire, and mother of Adam Borwick, from whom descended the Borwicks and Whittingtons of Borwick Hall.
The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 74
Aliénor married Ralph d’Eyncourt, son of Gervase d’Eyncourt and Unknown 160.,910 (Ralph d’Eyncourt was born in Sizergh, Kendal, Westmorland, England and died in 1228/1233 in Sizergh, Kendal, Westmorland, England 910.)
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