Sir Robert Francis

Of Foremark, Derbyshire.

M.P. for Derbyshire 1384, 1385, 1388, 1411

M.P. for Staffordshire 1397, 1399, 1401, 1404

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between March 1419 and the Hilary term of 1420.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the HoP.

Relationships

Father: Robert Francis of Foremark.

This relationship is given by the HoP.

Mother: unknown.

The pedigree in Metcalfe (p. 134) gives “Cecily”.

Spouse: Isabel .

See Isabel’s page. 

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Robert Francis married Anne Clinton.

Thomas Francis.

John Francis.

Isabel Francis married Sir Gervase Clifton.

Joan Francis married Thomas Harcourt of Bosworth.

Ann Francis married  Robert Stanton.

Alice Francis married Richard Peyton of Chesterton.

Mary Francis married Nicholas Strelley.

Isabel Francis married Robert Coney of Weston Coyney.

Joyce Francis married Thomas Giffard of Chillingham.

Cecily Francis married Thomas de Knightley alias Charlton.

Elizabeth Francis married William Peyto.

References

“Francis, Sir Robert (d. 1419/20), of Foremark, Derbys.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993).

Metcalfe, Walter C. “Pedigrees contained in the Visitations of Derbyshire,1569 and 1611” in The Genealogist, new series v. 7. (1891).