Isabel Francis

FRANCIS, Sir Robert (d.1419/20), of Foremark, Derbys s. and h. of Robert Francis (d. by 1370) of Foremark. m. by Easter 1392, Isabel, wid. of Thomas Brumpton (d.1382) of Longford, Salop and Church Eaton, Staffs., ?2s. inc. Robert 8da. Kntd. by Oct. 1385.1

Isabel, widow of Sir Thomas Brumpton, married Sir Robert Franceys, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire, son of Robert Francis and Cecily, circa 1381.[2]

Isabel died after 1436.[3]

Family

1. Thomas Brumpton d 1382
2. Sir Robert Franceys, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire b. c 1360, d. bt 1419 - 1420

Children

1. Isabel Fraunceys b. c 1382, d. 13 Jun 1457
2. Sir Robert Francis, Sheriff of Derbyshire b. c 1384
3. Joan Frauncis b. c 1386, d. a 1450
4. Joyce Fraunceys b. c 1390
5. Cecily Francis b. c 140

notes

From History of Parliament:

His [Robert Francis] marriage to Isabel, the widow of Thomas Brumpton, took place at some point before Easter 1392, when the manors of Longford and Church Eaton, which formed part of her dower, were the subject of a collusive suit brought by Isabels kinsman, Elias Brumpton, who confirmed her in possession of the property.4 Through his wife, Francis also acquired the advowsons of the parish churches of Longford and Preston-on-the-Weald Moors in Shropshire. We do not know when Isabel obtained possession of the manor of Doxey and other land in the High Offley and Bradley area of Staffordshire, but it seems likely that they were conveyed to her during Francis lifetime by Isabel Rickhill. She and her husband also acquired the Derbyshire manor of Bulton which remained in their hands until 1417, when they settled it upon a kinsman. Their joint landed income must have been considerable, since the property around Foremark which Sir Robert inherited was alone said to be worth 50 a year in 1412.5
Francis died at some point between March 1419 and the Hilary term of 1420, still active as a commissioner and j.p. for Staffordshire. His widow, Isabel, lived on until after 1436, and was caught up in a number of lawsuits, both as his executrix and as a landowner in her own right.13 Robert Francis the younger did not achieve the distinction of his father, but none the less represented Derbyshire in the Parliament of 1437. His wife was Anne, the daughter (or possibly stepdaughter) of Sir Thomas Clinton*, whose mother had previously been married to John Staunton. The match may have been planned as a means of helping Sir Robert Francis to strengthen his claim to custody of the Staunton estates, but, if this was the case, it failed in its purpose. Sir Robert seems to have been more successful in the negotiation of contracts for his eight daughters, each of whom married into established gentry families.14

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page 13 of Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume 4

Eyton's " Ant. of Shropshire," Vol. VIII., p. 114. This latter Isabel, who again presented in 1432, when she is styled relict of Sir Robert Franceys, will hare been the widow of Thomas, grandson of the above-mentioned Sir John de Brumpton (I.)

Sources

1. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 209
2. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 420.
3. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 512.

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possibly the daughter of Richard Pershale and Joan de Chetwynde No corroboration found. set adrfit, 12/24/10. Janet Palo-Jackson, curator

• https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/CM...
  • "This "Robert Francys of Co Derby" [father of Elizabeth (Francis) Brecknoth, d 1488] appears to have been a son of Sir Robert Francis of Foremark, Co Derby (died after 1419)
• http://mypages.allwest.com/~rognan/genealogy/pafg2043.htm