Robert Fovent

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

Family

Fovent was the second son of Member of Parliament Robert Osegood alias Fovent, who died in 1377, of Fovant in Wiltshire, and of Shaftesbury, and his wife Margery, a daughter of MP, Thomas Platel, of Shaftesbury. Fovent married firstly, by 1384, Margaret Herring, daughter of Raymond Herring of Chaldon and Winterborne Herringston in Dorset. By 1405 he had married his second wife, 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.