Reported as the Scottish legend, belonged to the family of the heel Chat, the old in the county of Katzenellenbogen lived in what is now Hesse, distributed but the time of Emperor Tiberius of their enemies, the first went to Holland.

According to the chroniclers of old Pomeranian belonging to the oldest of the Stojentin, most respected and wealthiest families of the former Duchy of Pomerania. The family name can only Stojentin to 14. August 1341 lead back; but the first bearer of the name proves, that is already very old at that time the family, been powerful and wealthy must be.

Surveys in the title of count: Flemming a. d. H. Böck: Reichsgrafenstand on 16. November 1700 in Vienna for the brothers, George Casper von Flemming, Privy Council Elector of Brandenburg and Pomerania Hofgerichtspräsident to Stargard, and Heino Heinrich von Flemming, Elector of Brandenburg's governor and General Field Marshal. The Prussian royal recognition was followed on 30. October 1701, the Elector of Saxony at the 14. December 1701. Flemming a. d. H. Iwen: Reichsgrafenstand on 9. January 1721 in Vienna for Felix Friedrich von Flemming, Royal Swedish Tribunalsrat to Wismar. Flemming-Benz: Prussian count conditions, primogen[...]