A baseborn knight of the Reach, got upon a Cider Hall washerwoman by force by one of the red-apple Fossoways and so styled the Bastard of Cider Hall. Where the trueborn Fossoways stayed in the Reach with Mace Tyrell's banners, Franklyn took the long road across the narrow sea and sold his sword to the Golden Company, the exile sellsword brotherhood that still kept the dragon banner of the Blackfyres in their wagons. He rides with them still under Ser Harry Strickland, and was at Volantis when Jon Connington and the boy claimed for the trueborn son of Rhaegar Targaryen treated with the company's captains in 300 AC to make their landing in the stormlands.
