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s. of John Arnewey, retainer of Henry of Bolingbroke 1390-3.In 1410 Forster was paid £25 6s.8d. owed to Arnewey, ‘son pier qui mort est’, for service with Bolingbroke. Forster appears also to have been acting as attorney for a number of other former servants of Bolingbroke: E404/26/335, 27/210. m. bef. 1418, Elizabeth.

Offices Held

Serjeant of the buttery by 26 Oct. 1400; yeoman of the Kings private cellar 1 Apr. 1408 – ?; serjeant of the pantry by 20 Nov. 1411 – aft.Jan. 1413.

Butler of Calais by 20 Apr. 1401-aft. Feb. 1402.DL42/15, f. 89; E404/16/509, 17/417.

Bailiff, Sandwich, Kent 1 Apr. 1408–26 Mar. 1413.

Feodary of duchy of Lancaster in Leics., Warws. and Northants. 10 Dec. 1408 – 3 Dec. 1410; duchy bailiff of Leicester 15 Jan. 1413-c. Nov. 1423.DL42/16, ff. 10, 85, 121; 17, f. 43; Somerville, Duchy, i. 569–70.

Mayor, Leicester Mich. 1423–4.Wyggeston Hosp. Recs. ed. Thompson, no. 589.

Parlimentarian

FORSTER, Henry, of Leicester and Hessle, Yorks.

Main residences: Leicester; Hessle, Yorks.

Author

C.K.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Web Title

FORSTER, Henry

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

Image

FORSTER, Gilbert (d.1410), of Winchester, Hants.

Read more about FORSTER, Gilbert (d.1410), of Winchester, Hants.

Family and Education

m. (1) by 1389, Joan; (2) aft. 1404, Juliana, da. and coh. of Alice, wid. of John Taverner of Kingsham in Chichester, Suss.,Stowe 846, f. 103v; CCR, 1413-19, p. 153; 1441-7, p. 458; D.J. Keene, Surv. Winchester (Winchester Studies ii), ii. 1232. 2s.