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Richard Fleming (born around 1385; died 25 January or 26 January 1431 in Sleaford Castle) Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College Oxford was born at Crofton in Yorkshire.Fleming was descended from a gentry family. His aunt Cecily Fleming married in 1407 Robert Waterton ‘Henry IV’s esquire and right-hand man’. His nephew Robert Flemming was likely an illegitimate son of Robert Flemming esquire of Wath near Ripon (d.1459).He was educated at University College Oxford.
