Richard FORESTER^[1]

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• Name	Richard FORESTER
  Gender	Male
  Military Event	Battle of Hastings
  Military Flag	Y
  Died	?
  Person ID	I39916	Main
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	Count Baldwin FORESTER, IV,   d. ?
  Family ID	F12182	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Sir Hugo FORSTER,   d. 1121, England
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F12181	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  SIR RICHARD FORESTER, called in those days by his Latinized name of Forestarius. Sir Richard and his father, Baldwin IV, passed over to England with his brother-in-law, William the Conqueror, and received the honor of knighthood after the decisive battle of Hastings, being then in his sixteenth year, from whom sprung the Foresters of Etherston and Bamborough Castle in Northumberland, and the Blake Foresters of Ashfield and Knockmoy Abbey, County of Galway and Inchorey Castle, County of Clare. "The Forster, Fenwick, Collingwood, the heroes of Renown, High in the ranks of Lord Percy, the war a.xe hewed down, The Percies in that vengeful fight, both were prisoners taken, But for the Douglas' dead body were 3-ielded up again." The Forsters of Bamborough Castle were Lords of Blanchland in Northumberland, and for several generations they were Knights Bannerets, Lords Warden of the Middle Marches, High Sheriffs of Northumberland and hereditary Governors of Bamborough Castle from the reign of James I to that of George I. The Forsters of Etherston — the head of this house — from whom those of Bamborough descended, won their honors on the field of battle; and their descendants, of Huntdon (Hunsdon), by their profound skill in legal knowledge.

  
  

• Sources

  [S106] FOSTER Genealogy, Being the Record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster, Frederick Clifton Pierce, (Press of W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago).