John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming (c. 1465 – 1 November 1524) was a Scottish nobleman. 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

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and his younger brother,

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. In the spring of 1522 he and Lord Hay, the king's secretary, visited

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on a diplomatic mission. He was assassinated by John Tweedie of

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, and his followers, while hawking.Fleming, Alexander and Mason, Roger (eds.), ''Scotland and the Flemish People'', John Donald, Edinburgh, pp. 162 & 163, His son was Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming.

References

*''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant''; first edition by

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1460s births 1524 deaths 16th-century Scottish people

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