I am of the FLEMING line and I have a paper my father wrote many years ago. The name FLEMING originated in the land of Flanders. About the year 1085, much of the land of Flanders was flooded by water from the North Sea, causing many people to migrate to Scotland and on to Ireland and England. These people too were called FLEMING as they came from Flanders. Some also migrated to Germany where the name is spelled FLEMMING. The FLEMING'S in Scotland became part of the MURRAY CLAN. The town of Kirkaldy, in Fifeshire, on the Firth of Forth, near Edinburg, Scotland was inhabited almost entirely by people named FLEMING. The earlist known man to use the name FLEMING was a Benedictine Monk who orignated in Flanders as a monk in the monastery of Bec of Normandy and he was known as William le Bec. In the year 1066, Duke William of Normandy who was considered by many as the rightful heir to the throne of England, recruited a army from the mainland of Europe to gain the crown of England from the Anglo-Saxon rulers. William le Bec was selected as one of the military leaders to accompy Duke William to England. On Christmas Day, 1066, William of Normandy was crowned King Of England. Willian le Bec was given a barony and a large area of land to govern, and was soon know as William le Flandrensis. His name was changed again to le FLEMYING, then to le FLEMING and finally to just plain FLEMING. All of this meaning, William, the man from Flanders. Baron William FLEMING married a woman of Normandy and had several sons and daughters. One son, Richard le FLEMING, was granted the barony of Slane and other estates in County Meath, Ireland. As Lords of Slane, the FLEMINGS held sway in Meath until the end of the 17th century. All of this and more was written by my father years ago and I am trying to verify this information and to make some family connections and history. Thank-you, Paulette