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Francis Weston

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Sir Francis Weston as played by [Cast Name]

[not portrayed in the series]

born c. 1513 - executed May 17, 1536 by order of Henry VIII
Character's backstory: Francis was born into a gentry family and he quickly found a position at the royal court. He was married, but rumours suggested that he was enjoying a secret affair with Mary Shelton, during 1536. Mary (called Madge in the series) had been the mistress of Henry VIII the year before, from February to around August 1535.
*in the series Norris is shown as being interested in Madge Shelton and not Weston*
An attendant to the King, Francis Weston was one of the men, along with George Boleyn, Mark Smeaton, William Brereton, and Henry Norris, accused of having an affair with Anne Boleyn in 1536. Though the accusations were most probably false, he too was brought down with the Queen and was executed by beheading.

Gentility: Of genteel birth

Position: Gentleman-in-waiting - Courtier in the court of King Henry VIII

Personality type: Young & flirtatious

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Annoying trait(s):

A verse from Sir Thomas Wyatt's eulogy poem to those executed along with Anne Boleyn:

"Ah! Weston, Weston, that pleasant was and young,
In active things who might with thee compare?
All words accept that thou diddest speak with tongue,
So well esteemed with each where thou diddest fare.
And we that now in court doth lead our life
Most part in mind doth thee lament and moan;
But that thy faults we daily hear so rife,
All we should weep that thou are dead and gone."

CHARACTER CONNECTIONS


Family members:
Father - Sir Richard Weston
Mother - Anne Sandys

Marriage:
Anne Pickering - daughter and heir of of Sir Christopher Pickering of Killington

Children: Sir Henry Weston *


Romance(s):
Was rumored to be having an affair with Mary Shelton. (Madge in the series)


Friends:


Enemies:


 *Francis' son, Henry Weston was made KB at Elizabeth I''s coronation, the Queen perhaps showing him favour as much for his father's fatal attentions to her mother, Anne Boleyn, as for his own recent service in the defence of Calais. His marriage to Dorothy Arundell made him kin both to the Queen and to the Howard family. In a grant of Jan 1560 he is described as ‘the Queen's servant’ (though what office he held, if any, is unknown),





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