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Frances Bedingfield, in religion Frances.
Born: 1616 in Suffolk.
Died: 4 May 1704 in Munich, aged 84.

father: Francis Bedingfield Esq of Redlingfield, Suffolk
mother: Katherine Fortescue of Salden, Bucks

Mary Ward Institute choir nun.
She entered 7 Jun 1630.
Munich

She professed 8 Sep 1633.[Rome]

Superior 1669 - 1685 Hammersmith
Superior 1686 - 1699 York
Superior 1699 - 1704 Munich

subject: Portrait with book, Bar Convent, York

She was the great aunt of Dorothy Bedingfield, Mary Bedingfield, Agnes Bedingfield.
She was the aunt of Mary Bedingfield, Lucy Hamilton, Anne Hamilton, Catherine Hamilton.
She was the cousin of Margaret Bedingfield, Margarita Bedingfield, Mary Bedingfield, Anne Bedingfield , Jane Bedingfield , Margaret Downes , Helen Beaumont, Katherin Beaumont.
She was the sister of Maria Bedingfield, Winefrid Bedingfield, Helen Bedingfield, Margaret Bedingfield, Philippa Bedingfield, Elizabeth Hamilton, Ann Bedingfield, Katherine Bedingfield , Magdalen Bedingfield , Grace Bedingfield.
She was the niece of Mary Fortescue.

Sources: biog dic; companions: 92-9; CRS 4: 353-4.

Family tree (Bedingfield of Bedingfield and Redlingfield)
Family tree (Fortescue of Salden)
Family tree (Fortescue of Salden)

Notes:

Accompanied Mary Ward to London in 1639, to Hutton Rudby, Yorks, in 1642 and Heworth, just outside York, in 1644. She probably then went with the community to Paris in 1650, then Munich, before being sent to Hammersmith in 1669 with Mary Portington, Isabella Layton and Christina Hastings. Credited with the foundation of the Hammersmith Community and school. In 1686 founded the Bar Convent in York. She returned to Munich in 1699 where she was made Superior.

She was arrested three times: London 1674; York 1679; York 1694. Used the alias of 'Long'.

Rouen Chronicle I p62 records Frances Bedingfield as a procurer of alms for the Rouen convent after she entreated Father Monaco to visit her sister Margaret who was Vicaress at Rouen.