Re: ALICE STONOR, wife of Sir Humphrey FORSTER

On Oct 28, 7:36 pm, "mholl...@xxxxxxx" <mholl...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

< In any case, you're conflating two successive generations of Thomas
< Stonors.  The parents of Alice are Thomas Stonor, born about 1424,
d.
< 23 April 1474 and Joan de la Pole.  His parents were another Thomas
< Stonor and Alice Kirby.  See: “The lineage and ancestry of HRH
Prince
< Charles, Prince of Wales” by Gerald Paget (Skilton, Edinburgh, 1977,
2
< vols.) and “Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval
< Families” by Douglas Richardson (Genealogical Publishing Co.,
< Baltimore, 2004), p. 691.

Martin ~

Charles Ward has correctly stated the parentage of Alice Stonor, wife
of Humphrey Forster, Esq. She was the daughter of Thomas Stonor, Esq.
(1394-1431), of Stonor (in Pyrton), Oxfordshire, and his wife, Alice
Kirkby. She was thus the sister of Thomas Stonor, Esq., who married
Joan de la Pole.

Alice Stonor married (as his 1st wife) Humphrey Forster, Esq.
(1420-1488), of Harpsden by Henley, Oxfordshire, a lawyer. He was
Knight of the Shire for Oxfordshire in 1467-1468, and ?1470-1471,
Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1472-1473, and Sheriff of Oxfordshire and
Berkshire, 1474-1475.. A rather full biography of Humphrey Forster
is found in Wedgwood, House of Parliament, 1 (1936): 344-345. Alice
Stonor and her husband, Humphrey Forster, Esq., had a son and heir,
Humphrey Forster, who was allegedly aged 30 or more in 1488 (but
Wedgwood wisely observes that the younger Humphrey was more than
likely aged 40 or more at that date). They were also the parents of
Jane Forster, wife of John Greville (living 1499), of Drayton,
Oxfordshire, which couple is ancestral to several New World
immigrants, including Audrey Barlow, Elizabeth Bosvile, and George,
Giles, and Robert Brent.

Humphrey Forster, husband of Alice Stonor, married (2nd) after 1466
Sibyl, widow of Robert Poyntz, which Sibyl survived him in 1488.
According to Wedgwood, Sibyl was born in 1426, thus it is unlikely
that she was the mother of any of Humphrey's children.

I might add that Alice Stonor, wife of Humphrey Forster, Esq., should
not be confused with her brother, Thomas Stonor's daughter, also named
Alice Stonor. This other Alice Stonor married Richard Harcourt, Knt.,
as stated in my book, Plantagenet Ancestry (2004).

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah


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