Francis Fane (Royalist)

Sir Francis Fane of Fulbeck KB FRS (c. 1611 – c. 1681) supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.

During the English Civil War he was appointed by the Duke of Newcastle to be governor of Doncaster for the King, and afterwards of Lincoln Castle.

An attempt to break the siege was made by George, Lord Goring on 5 May, but he found the Parliamentary forces too strong and retreated.

The next night the Lincoln Castle (a key defensive structure) was stormed with the use of scaling ladders.

[5] Fane was seated at Fulbeck, in Lincolnshire, and at Aston in Yorkshire,[6] where he resided the latter part of his life.

Fane of Fulbeck, by Cornelius Jonson , (black & white reproduction).
Arms of Sir Francis Fane (c.1611-1681?), K.B., on a book.