Sir Erasmus de la Fontaine (1601-1672) was an English landowner from a Huguenot family, who lived at Kirby Bellars in Leicestershire.
[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.
Their children included: Erasmus died on 16 March 1672 aged 70, and is buried at Kirby Bellars.