Sir Erasmus de la Fontaine (1601-1672) was an English landowner from a Huguenot family, who lived at Kirby Bellars in Leicestershire.
He served King Charles I as High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1628. His other estates included the manor of Holme at Langford, Bedfordshire,[1] Moulton Park in Northamptonshire[2] and the manor of Newhall near Hornchurch in Essex.[3] He also had a home in the City of London off Aldermanbury, whose location was known as Fountain Court[4] (now part of the Guildhall grounds).
Under the Commonwealth his estates were confiscated by the Committee for Sequestrations, and he had to pay a £1000 fine to regain them.[5]
Under King Charles II, he was appointed a commissioner for tax collection in Leicestershire and Essex.[6]
He married Mary Noel, daughter of Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden.
They had nine children, seven daughters and two sons, the youngest of whom, John, was born in 1638. Their children included:
Erasmus died on 16 March 1672 aged 70, and is buried at Kirby Bellars.