Robert Fovent

Robert Fovent, alias Osegood, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament.

Family

Fovent was the second of Member of Parliament Robert Osegood alias Fovent, who died in 1377, of Fovant, Wiltshire and Shaftesbury and Margery, a daughter of MP, Thomas Platel, of Shaftesbury. Fovent married firstly, by 1384, Margaret née Herring and by 1405, he married a woman named Edith.

Career

In 1355, he was Mayor of Shaftesbury. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Shaftesbury in January 1390.[1]

References
  1. "FOVENT, alias OSEGOOD, Robert, of Shaftesbury, Dorset. | History of Parliament Online".


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