John Flamank or Flamoke (by 1486 – 1535/41), of Boscarne, near

Bodmin Bodmin () is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor. The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. It is bordere ...

, Cornwall, was an English politician.

Ancestry

He was the son of Richard Flamank and Jane, daughter of Thomas Luccombe of

. His elder brother was

Thomas Flamank Thomas Flamank (died 27 June 1497) was a lawyer and former MP from Cornwall, who together with Michael An Gof led the Cornish rebellion of 1497, a protest against taxes imposed by Henry VII of England. Ancestry He was the eldest son of Richard ...

, co-leader of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.

Career and life

John served as a

man-at-arms A man-at-arms was a soldier of the High Medieval to Renaissance periods who was typically well-versed in the use of arms and served as a fully- armoured heavy cavalryman. A man-at-arms could be a knight, or other nobleman, a member of a kni ...

Calais Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras. Th ...

in 1507 before acting as

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

(MP) for

in 1515. He was a Commissioner of Subsidy for Cornwall in 1523 and was appointed Mayor of Bodmin in 1525 and 1534. In 1526 he served as a Yeoman Usher in the Royal Household and as Usher of the Kings Chamber in 1538. Flamank died in 1540.

Family and descendants

John married Jane, daughter of Sir

Richard Nanfan Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

, Deputy Lieutenant of Calais and Esquire of the King's Body. They had the following issue: * Gilbert Flamank, MP for Bodmin in 1529 * John Flamank * Henry Flamank * Roger Flamank

References

15th-century births 16th-century deaths English MPs 1515 Members of the Parliament of England for Bodmin {{16thC-England-MP-stub