Fleance and his father Banquo are both fictional characters presented as historical fact by Hector Boece, whose Scotorum Historiae (1526-27) was a source for Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles,[REF] a history of the British Isles popular in Shakespeare's time.
The Stuarts used their connection with Fleance and his marriage to the Welsh princess to claim a genealogical link with the legendary King Arthur.