John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming (c. 1465 – 1 November 1524) was a Scottish nobleman.
Biography He was the son of Malcolm Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, and Euphame Livingstone, a daughter of James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston. In 1514, he was one of the lords charged with the care of the infant James V and his younger brother, Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross. He served as Lord Chamberlain of Scotland from 1517KM Brown, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (University of St Andrews, 2007-25), 1517/10/1. until his resignation on 1 August 1524.Robert Kerr Hannay, Acts of the Lords of Council in Public Affairs: 1501-1554 (General Register House, Edinburgh, 1932), p. 204. In the spring of 1522 he and Lord Hay, the king's secretary, visited France on a diplomatic mission.Linda Porter, The Thistle and the Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor (Head of Zeus, 2024), pp. 207–208, 275.
Lord Fleming was assassinated on 1 November 1524 by John Tweedie of Drumelzier and his followers.Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (General Register House, 1878), vol 15, p. lxxii.
Personal life John Fleming was married three times:
His first wife was Eupheme Drummond (1470–1502), daughter of John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond. They had:
Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming (1494–1547)
His second wife was Lady Margaret Stewart (b. 1495), daughter of Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox. They had:
Margaret Fleming (1509–1542), married Patrick Murray, of Falahill, Laird of Philiphaugh
His third wife was Agnes Somerville, of Cambusnethan (d. 1543), daughter of Sir John Somerville (1457–1513). They had:
Margaret Fleming, married John Cunningham, of Glengarnock (d. 1601)
References
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant; first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom; by Sir James Balfour Paul; pp 535-537