Sir John Felbrigge, Kt.

Mentioned in the will of Sir Simon de Felbrigge Sir Simon Felbrigge, KG , last male of the elder Felbrigge line.

In his time the manor and lands of Felbrigge passed from the Felbrigge family to the Wymondham/Wyndham family, not without a bit of domestic violence. "The manor of Felbrigg being left by Sir Simon Felbrigg, to be sold after the death of his wife, Catherine, Thomas Lord Scales, one of his trustees, bought the reversion of it of his executors, and after sold it to John Wymondham, Esq. which John had also a lease of it from the Lady Catherine; he and his wife, the Lady Margery, relict of Sir Edward Hastings, of Elsing in Norfolk, daughter of Sir Robert Clifton of Bokenham castle in the said county, lived here, when Sir John Felbrigg, eldest son of Sir George Felbrigg, above mentioned, made a forcible entry, in the absence of her husband, threatened to fire the house, she having looked herself up in a room to keep possession, and at last dragged her out by the hair of her head, and took possession but John Wymondham, having the King's order, to Thomas Montgomery, Esq. sheriff of the county, to be put in possession, he came to an agreement, and Wymonham paying to Sir John 200 marks, he released all his right and claim to this lordship; and in the 39th of Henry VI. Sir John, and his wife conveyed it to John Wymonham by fine." http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78419