Manor of Bratton Fleming  The Manor of Bratton Fleming was a medieval manor estate in Bratton Fleming, Devon, England. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the manor of "Brotone" was one of over one hundred west country manors held in chief by Robert, Count of Mortain (c. 1031 – 1090), half-brother of William the Conqueror. His tenant in the following of his manors in Devon and Cornwall was one of his knights named "Erchenbald":  Erchenbald is nowhere described in the Domesday Book as "Flandrensis", "le Fleming" or by any other term denoting "of Flanders". Tristram Risdon (died 1640) describes him as "Erchenbald Flandrensis" in his paragraph concerning the descent of Croyde, which strictly is inaccurate. However, it is certain that he was "Flandrensis" from the evidence of the names of his descendants. "Stephen son of Erchenbald" occurs in Devon in 1139 and "Erchenbald son of Stephen" occurs as holder of several knight's fees in Devon and Cornwall in the 1166 "Liber Niger" ("Return of the Barons"). The lands of Robert, Count of Mortain, became the core holdings of the feudal barony of Launceston, and the Fleming family continued to hold most of their manors from that barony, as can be seen from entries in the Book of Fees. Erchenbald (or "Archembald") le Fleming of Bratton Fleming derived his surname due to his birth in Flanders, and came to England during the reign of William I. He was succeeded by his son, Stephen (fl. 1145), whose son, Archembald, came to Ireland with Henry II in 1171 and participated in Hugh de Lacy's plantation of the Kingdom of Mide. On the west side of the hill of Slane in Ireland there are the remains of a twelfth-century motte and bailey which was the settlement, destroyed by the Irish in 1176. Succeeding Flemings were Stephen, died c. 1213 – 1214 and Baldwin, died 1260. In the Book of Fees Baldwin "le Fleming" is listed as holding lands in "Crideho" (Croyde) and also in "Bratton cum membris" (with its members), both by then fees held from the feudal barony of Launceston.