Francis Framlingham

Biography

“The manors of Suffolk; notes on their history and devolution, with some illustrations of the old manor houses”. by Copinger, Walter Arthur, 1847-1910; Copinger, H. B. (Harold Bernard), b. 1881 (Publication date 1905). Page 129. < Archive.Org >

Sir James Framlingham died in 1519, when the manor passed to his son and heir, Thomas Framlingham, who died without issue, whereupon the manor devolved on his brother and heir, Francis Framlingham, married to Elizabeth Jeffrey, widow of Sir Philip Tilney, and died 20th September, 1544,^ when it passed to his son and heir. Sir Charles Framlingham.

Francis Framlingham wrote his will on the 20th June 1544 but it was not proved until the 21st May 1546, so he died somewhere between those dates. He left 3 underage children; Charles, Elizabeth & Anne.

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 . . . .

Notes

http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-25-71.pdf

REMARRIAGE OF TESTATOR’S WIDOW

According to Crispe, supra, p. 60, after the testator’s death his widow, Elizabeth (nee Jeffrey) Tilney, married Lionel Talmache, esquire.

Other sources, however, indicate that after the testator’s death Elizabeth married Francis Framlingham (d.1544), esquire, of Crow’s Hall in Debenham, Suffolk. See the pedigrees in Gunn, supra; Francis Framlingham’s will, in which he appoints his wife, Lady Elizabeth Tilney, as one of his executors, TNA PROB 11/31/544; and the pedigrees of Tilney and Framlingham in Metcalfe, supra, pp. 73-4, and 192:

References

• “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 >