Ann Framlingham

C 1/498/7 UK Archives 1519
Short title: Downes v Brown.
Plaintiffs: Robert Downes, gentleman, and Margaret, his wife, late the wife of John Mortymer, knight.
Defendants: Robert Brown and Anne, his wife, late the wife of James Framyngham, knight ‘naturall' daughter of the said Margaret, Antony Wingfield, knight, and William Waller.
Subject: Bond collusively obtained settling lands of the said Margaret on Anne, in tail. (Decree endorsed.) Subpoena and injunction. Suffolk, Middlesex, Worcestershire

“The visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk pedigrees.” by Harvey, William, d. 1567; British Museum. MSS (Harleian 1103); Cook, Robert, d. 1593; Raven, J. E. (John Earle); Metcalfe, Walter Charles (Publication date 1882). Page 73. < Archive.org >

Francis Framlingham was the son of Sir James Framlingham (d.1519) by an illegitimate daughter of Margaret Neville, widow of Sir John Mortimer, and divorced wife of Charles Brandon (d. 22 August 1545), Duke of Suffolk. See ‘Excursions 1992’, Suffolk Institute, p. 109, available as a pdf file online:

At the end of the 14th century [the manor of Crow’s Hall] was acquired by the Framlingham family, who rose to prominence in the early 16th century through kinship with Henry VIII's favourite, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Like his royal master, Brandon had a chequered marital history, and Sir James Framlingham married the daughter of one of Brandon's ex-wives. Sir James's son, Francis, died at the siege of Boulogne, 1544, leaving an under-age heir, Sir Charles, the last male member of the family . . . .