FOVENT, alias OSEGOOD, Robert, of Shaftesbury, Dorset.

2nd s. of Robert Osegood alias Fovent (d.1377), of Fovant, Wilts. and Shaftesbury, by Margery, da. of Thomas Platel of Shaftesbury. m. (1) by 1384, Margaret (b.1364), da. of Raymond Herring (d.1372), and sis. and h. of Robert Herring of Chaldon and Winterbourne Herringston, Dorset; (2) by 1405, Edith.In the Cat. Addns. to mss in BM, 1931-5, p. 325, relating to Egerton 3135, Robert and his wife Edith are said to have been the parents of Cecily Fovent, abbess of the Benedictine abbey of Shaftesbury from 1398 to 1423. But in none of the deeds enrolled in the cartulary is their relationship made explicit, and in view of the time-scale involved it is more probable that Cecily was Robert’s sister.