Sir Francis Fortescue (ca. 1563–1624), KB was an English politician.

Life

Francis was the eldest surviving son of John Fortescue of Salden at

Mursley Mursley is a small village in and also a civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about three miles east of Winslow and about seven miles south west of Central Milton Keynes. The village name is Old English in origin, and is tho ...

and his wife, Cecily Ashfield. His brothers were William Fortescue and Thomas Fortescue II. In 1589, he married Grace Manners (d. 1624), daughter of Sir John Manners of

Haddon Hall Haddon Hall is an English country house on the River Wye near Bakewell, Derbyshire, a former seat of the Dukes of Rutland. It is the home of Lord Edward Manners (brother of the incumbent Duke) and his family. In form a medieval manor house, it ...

, second son of Thomas Earl of Rutland, and of

Dorothy Vernon Dorothy Vernon (1544 – 24 June 1584), the younger daughter of Sir George Vernon and Margaret ''nee'' Talbois (or Tailboys), was the heiress of Haddon Hall, an English country house in Derbyshire with its origins in the 12th century. She marr ...

daughter and co-heir of Sir George Vernon. They had at least one son, his heir, John. A daughter, Dorothy Vernon (d. 1650), married Sir Robert Throckmorton of

Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire Weston Underwood is a village and civil parishParishes in Milton Keynes
- Milton K ...

and

Coughton Court Coughton Court () is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building. The house has a long crenellated façade directly facing the main road, at the cen ...

Career

In 1600, he became the

Custos Rotulorum of Buckinghamshire This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Buckinghamshire. * Sir Francis Bryan bef. 1544 – bef. 1547 * Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford bef. 1547 – c. 1578 * Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey of Wilton c. 1578&nd ...

and in 1608

High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire The High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, in common with other counties, was originally the King's representative on taxation upholding the law in Anglo-Saxons, Saxon times. The word Sheriff evolved from 'shire-reeve'. High Sheriff, Sheriff is the olde ...

. In 1589, 1593 and 1597 he was MP for

Buckingham Buckingham ( ) is a market town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, which had a population of 12,890 at the 2011 Census. The town lies approximately west of Central Milton Keynes, sou ...

, and in 1601 MP for

Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

References

1560s births 1624 deaths High Sheriffs of Buckinghamshire 17th-century English people Knights of the Bath English MPs 1589 English MPs 1593 English MPs 1597–1598 English MPs 1601 {{17thC-England-MP-stub