Elizabeth de la Mare, Lady Forster

Born about 1476 and died 7 December 1526.

• parents: Sir John Delamare of Aldermarston & ?? Dabridgourt dau of Sir Nicholas Dabridgcourt. She was the heir to her grandfather.

Married

1. George Forster, (abt 1475-1533) who was later knighted, and their descendants held the manor of Aldermaston till the 18th century. He was the son of Humphrey Forster l. They had at least 10 children, including

Children

1.  M iii Sir Humphrey FORSTER Knight was born 1500 and died Sep 1556. Married Elizabeth SANDYS.

• Aldermaston Monument to Sir George & Lady Forster

At the angles of the monument are engaged cable shafts of Italian character, and round the verge of the upper slab on which the figures rest is the following inscription, commencing at the west end of the south side:

">Here lieth Sir George Forster knight son and heir of Humphrey Forster esquire cousin and one of the heirs of Sir Stephen Popham knight and Elizabeth wife of the same Sir George daughter and heir of John De la Mare esquire son and heir of Thomas de la Mare knight which Elizabeth died the vii day of December in the year of Our lord God MCCCCCXXVI and which Sir George die[d] in the year of Out Lord [blank]"

Sources

1. http://www.richardiii.net/PDFS/scan_hillier_thomas_mare.pdf
2. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/SANDYS.htm#Elizabeth%20SANDYS2
3. Achard, De La Mare & Forster Families of Aldermaston House (Aldemaston)
4. http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/temp62.htm
5. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg309...