Person:Richard Forster (3)
Sir. Richard Forster
b.1050 Flanders, Normandy, France
d.1080 Scotland
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  • H.  Sir. Richard Forster1050 - 1080
  1. Hugo Forster1071 - 1121
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Name Sir. Richard Forster
Gender Male
Birth? 1050 Flanders, Normandy, France
Marriage to Unknown
Military? Bef 1080 He Accompanied William in the Norman Invasion and Was Knighted by William After the Battle of Hastings. William Gave Him Land on the Anglo-Scottish Border in Nothumberland and Berwick Counties.
Death? 1080 Scotland
References
  1.   Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Foster Genealogy: Being a Record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster, an Early Inhabitant of Ipswich in New England, Whose Genealogy is Traced Back to Anacher, Great Forrester of Flanders, Who Died in 837 A.D., with Wills, Inventories, Biographical Sketches, Etc.; Also the Record of all Other American Fosters. (Chicago: The Author, 1899).

    This authro sites his parents as Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and Adele of France, but other historians disagree.

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