Thomas Fogg

Sir Thomas Fogge (died 13 July 1407) was an English politician and soldier.

Career The names of Thomas Fogge's parents are not known with certainty, although he is said to have been the son of Sir Thomas Fogge, Knight of the Shire for Kent in 1377, 1379 and 1381, who married Anne, Countess of Joyeux in France, and was buried at Glastonbury, Somerset.

In his early years he was a soldier of fortune on the continent. He purchased land around Canterbury, in Chartham, Harbledown and Boughton under Blean.

In Canterbury Cathedral, some little distance higher in the nave was an inscription in French, with the figure of a knight in armour, and shields of arms, for Sir William Septvans, who died in 1407. Near it was an inscription in Latin, with the figures of a knight and his wife, with their shields of arms, for Sir William Septvans, who died anno 1448, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir John Peche, and these verses:

Marriage and issue Before May 1365 Fogge married Joan de Valence (d. 8 July 1420), widow of William Costede of Costede, Kent, and daughter of Sir Stephen de Valence of Repton, by whom he had three sons:

Thomas Fogge (d. 1405 ), eldest son, who married Eleanor St. Leger, daughter of Sir Thomas St. Leger, by whom he had a son William Fogge, born 31 October 1396 at Cheriton, Kent.

John Fogge, Esquire, named executor in his father's will, Thomas Fogge, jacet hic, jacet hic sua sponsa Johanna,

Sint celo cives per te Deus hos et Osanna;

Regni Protector Francos Britones superavit

Nobilium rector sicuti Leo Castra predavit

Et quoq, Militiam sic pro patria peramavit

Ad summan patriam deus hunc ab agone vocavit.By his will in the consistory court of Canterbury, anno 1407, he gave ten marcs to the work of this church; and it is recorded in the obituary, that Sir Thomas Fogge gave 20l. sterling, towards the new chapter-house; and his wife gave 20d. to each monk in the convent.