Anselm le Fleming

   Another name for Anselm was Anselm de Furness.¹⁶⁰

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:25, Anselm le Fleming, husband of Agnes of Dunbar, son of Michael II le Fleming and his wife Christian de Stainton, daughter of Gilbert of Lancaster, Lord of Stainton. 34:26, He was the father of William le fleming who was the first husband of Ada of Workington. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁰
Anselm le Fleming, apparently the second son of Michael II and Christian de Stainton, from whom he inherited the manor of Stainton in Kendal , as well as paternal lands at Drigg. Like his father and elder brother, William, Anselm is usualy styled "de Furness" in charters of the period, though he attests a grant made by William II de Lancster to Walter "Cocus" shortly before 1184 as Anselm "de Staynton" [Levens MSS., f. 247]. It appears from a later charter that Anselm built and endowed a chapel on his Stainton property: for circa 1280, William de Strickland, the husband of his great-granddaughter, Elizabeth d'Eyncourt, confirmed to the priory of Cartmel the prepetual cure and custody of the chapel of Croscrake, formerly founded by Anselm son of Michael de Furness in the grantor's territory of Stainton in Kendal, with a proviso that "when the prior and covent appoint a priest in the said chapel to celebrate divine service for the grantor's ancestors and successors, none of his heirs shall distrain the prior or his chaplain to give refuge to any lepers or infirm in the said chapel nor to render hospitality to such against their will" [Sizergh MSS.; cf. Hornyold-Strickland, Strickland of Sizergh, p. 18]. In 1198, a day was given to Anselm de Furness and Uctred son of Osulf, of Preston Richard, Westmorland, to hear their record and judgment of a plea of perambulation and division of lands on the Octaves of St. John the Baptist [Cal. curia Regis Rolls, I, p.51]

Anselm was still living in 1210, whe he was amerced sixty marks for trespass [Pipe Rolls Cumb. and Westd., ed. Parker, p. 194]. However, he had died prior to 1217, in which year Richard de Preston and Adam son of Patrick de Borwick undertook to render yearly to the abbey and monks of Furness one stone's weight of was which Anselm son of Michael de Furness had given to the monks during his lifetime [Coucher Book of Furness, Chetham Soc., II, p. 92]

The records make it clear that Anselm 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, pp. 73-74

Anselm married Agnes of Dunbar, daughter of Edgar "Unniting" Dunbar and Alice de Greystoke ¹⁶⁰.^,910 (Agnes of Dunbar was born about 1116 in Cumberland, England.)