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Flemish people or Flemings (Dutch: Vlamingen [ˈvlaːmɪŋə(n)] ⓘ) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Flanders, Belgium, who speak Flemish Dutch. Flemish people make up the majority of Belgians , at about 60%.
The Clan Fleming were Jacobites and the 6th earl attended James II of England and VII of Scotland after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. [3] Fleming opposed the Treaty of Union and voted against every article in the Parliament of 1706. [3] During the Jacobite rising of 1715 he was arrested by the governor of Edinburgh Castle. [3]
The Flemings of Slane descend from Erchenbald, otherwise referred to as "Archembald le Fleming", [citation needed] of Bratton Fleming, Devon, who was alive in 1087. Archembald derived his surname due to his birth in Flanders , and came to England during the reign of William I .
Arms of Fleming of Bratton Fleming [3] Erchenbald is assumed to be the first English ancestor of the family surnamed "Fleming", of Bratton Fleming. He came to England during the reign of William the Conqueror (1066-1087) and was a follower of that king's uterine half-brother Robert, Count of Mortain.
Baron Claes Adolf Fleming (1771–1831), councillor of state, Lord High Constable of Sweden was created count on 11 May 1818, but he did not leave any surviving male descendants. Some members of the family still live in Sweden and the United States, but the line ended in the Finnish House of Nobility in mid-19th century. [1]
Fleming is a surname of Scottish, Irish and English origin, ... Katherine Elizabeth Fleming, professor of history and administrator at New York University;
In 1155, under the orders of the new King Henry II, a third wave of Flemings were sent to Rhys ap Gruffydd's West Wales territories. [6] Gerald of Wales (c.1146-c.1223) and Brut y Tywysogyon recorded that "Flemings" were settled in south Pembrokeshire soon after the Norman invasion of Wales in the early 12th century. Gerald says this took place ...
The demonym associated with Flanders is Fleming, while the corresponding adjective is Flemish, which can also refer to the collective of Dutch dialects spoken in that area, or more generally the Belgian variant of Standard Dutch. Most Flemings live within the Flemish Region, which is a federal state within Belgium with its own elected government.