Background
James was the son of William Fleming and his wife, the former Janet Rochfort.
Lord Chancellor of sheriff of County Meath
James was the son of William Fleming and his wife, the former Janet Rochfort.
He was one of the eleven Irish barons who came to Greenwich on Henry VII of England"s summons in 1489. To their embarrassment, they were served at table by the former pretender to Henry"s Crown, Lambert Simnel, whom most of the Irish nobility had supported. After the downfall of Simnel"s cause at the Battle of Stoke, the King had treated him with great clemency, pardoning him and giving him a job in the Royal kitcen, from which he was eventually promoted to Falconer, but clearly he could not resist playing a joke on Simnel"s former allies.
Their children were:
Christopher Fleming, 8th Baron Slane
two younger sons, Thomas and George, from whom later Barons of Slane were descended.
The Annals of Ulster state that James" death was due to the first recorded Irish outbreak of sweating sickness, Ireland having escaped the English epidemic of 1485.