GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-000653
NameJean Forent
Title
Gendermale
DenominationHuguenot
Livedb. - d. (old)
Linked Manuscripts
Linked SermonsSermon on Mark 11:24 -- preacher (autograph: uncertain)Sermon on Psalms 34:19 -- preacher (autograph: yes)Sermon on unidentified text -- preacher (autograph: yes)
Linked Reports
Associated PlacesFrench Protestant Church, Spitalfields -- Parish
Source of DataLucy Busfield
Biographical Sources ConsultedJohn Southerden Burn, The History of the French, Walloon, Dutch and Other Foreign Protestant Refugees Settled in England (London, 1846), p. 171.
Other NoteForent appears to have been a minister of Sion, in Bretagne, France before his exile to England. His name is affixed to a letter signed by French refugee ministers in England on March 30, 1691, that forms part of the papers documenting the Huguenot immigration to Virginia. John Southerden Burn identifies him as a minister at "La Patente en Spital Fields" in 1688
GEMMS record createdAugust 24, 2016
GEMMS record last editedMay 10, 2021