James Fremingham (1470 - 1519)

Born 1470 in Glassenbury, Kent, England

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Died 1519 at about age 49 in Glassenbury, Kent, England

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Biography

James Fremingham was the son of John Fremingham and Ann Wingfield.^[1][2][3] Place and date of birth are as yet undocumented.

He was knighted at Tournay on 25 September 1513 (along with many others) "in the church after the King came from Mass under his banner in the church."^[4]

He married Elizabeth Walrond. They had at least three children:

• Thomas (eldest son)^[1]
• Francis^[1]
• Elizabeth Fremingham

Sir James died in 1519.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Harold Bernard Copinger and Walter Arthur Copinger, The Manors of Suffolk: Notes on Their History and Devolution, 7 vols. (Manchester: Taylor, etc, 1905-1911), Vol 7: The hundreds of Thingoe, Thredling, Wangford, and Wilford, including a general index to the holders of the manors, 129, Internet Archive.
2. ↑ C.R. Councer, "Painted Glass at Cranbrook and Lullingstone," Archaeologia Cantiana 86 (1971): 41-42, Kent Archealogy Society (pdf download)
3. ↑ Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent 1st ed., (1790), 3: 46n. Google Books.
4. ↑ William A. ShawThe Knights of England; A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of all the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of Knights Bachelors, (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906), 2: 40, Internet Archive.

See also:

• T.R. BeckettThe Sussex County Magazine, 8 (1934): 284. Not available on line, unknown content.
• Steven Gunn. Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest Friend (United Kingdom, Amberley Publishing, 2015. (This biography mentions multiple times that James Framlingham was Charles Brandon's cousin). According to WT, the two men were first cousins once removed, their nearest common ancestors being Sir Robert Wingfield and Elizabeth Goushill.

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