BLOUNT FAMILY

II. KINLET and ASTLEY LINES

John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1383, Kinlet, England

Died: 1442/3

Notes: Knight of the Garter.

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Isabella De CORNWALL

Married 1: Alice De La BERE 1415, Kinlet, England

Children:

1. Isabel BLOUNT

2. Anne BLOUNT

3. Mary (Margaret) BLOUNT

4. Humphrey BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

5. John BLOUNT

6. Winifred BLOUNT

7. William BLOUNT

8. Eleanor (Ellena) BLOUNT

9. Charles BLOUNT

10. Walter BLOUNT

11. Alice BLOUNT

12. Edmund (Edward) BLOUNT

Married 2: Dau. BRAMPTON

Isabel BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1417, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice De La BERE

Married 1: Son SCRIVEN ABT 1437, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Married 2: John KEYNE

Anne BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1419, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice De La BERE

Married: William CREIGHTON ABT 1439, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Mary (Margaret) BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1421, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice De La BERE

Married 1: John PIGOT ABT 1441, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Children:

1. Thomas PIGOT

Married 2: John OTELEY ABT 1450, Stafford, England

Eleanor (Ellena) BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1433, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: BEF 1510

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice De La BERE

Married 1: John CHENEY ABT 1453, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Married 2: Humphrey COATES

Children:

1. Margaret COATES (b. ABT 1458) (m. Thomas Wright)

Alice BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1419, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice De La BERE

Married: Thomas BETTENHAM

Children:

1. John BETTENHAM

2. Stephen BETTENHAM (Sir)

3. William BETTENHAM (d. 1490)

William BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1431, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice De La BERE

Married: ¿? ABT 1459, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

John BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1425, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Notes: Nicholl, in his History of Leicestershire, omits John, the first in the Burton pedigree, and makes Thomas Blount of Burton, who married Agnes Kniveton, to be the son of Peter Blount, the fourth son of Sir Walter Blount and Sancha. This is merely conjecture, without the smallest foundation.

In a note Nicholl says, that "an illuminated roll of 1642, with notes by" Blount, the Herefordshire Collector, brings the Blounts of Burton from "the great Sir John Blount of Kinlet". The John Blount who married Isabella Cornwall, and by her acquired the estate at Kinlet. His son John Blount of Kinlet, who married Alice de la Bere, might be the head of the Burton pedigree. But no Thomas is found amongst his sons, who were Humphrey, John, Edmund, William, and Charles, unless Thomas has been omitted.
Perhaps the son John may have been the person who married an Alice, and was the ancestor of the Burton family. See: https://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/alexander-croke/the-genealogical-history-of-the-croke-family-originally-named-le-blount-volume-kor-714/page-18-the-genealogical-history-of-the-croke-family-originally-named-le-blount-volume-kor-714.shtml

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice De La BERE

Married: Alice (Alicia) ? ABT 1444, Stafford, England

Children:

1. Thomas BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

Thomas BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

Born: ABT 1445

Mother: Alice (Alicia) ?

Married 2: Agnes KNIVETON

Children:

1. John BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

John BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

Born: ABT 1470

Father: Thomas BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

Married: Ellen HALL (dau. of John Hall of Dovebridge) ABT 1494, Dovebridge, Derbyshire, England

1. Thomas BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

2. Walter BLOUNT

3. Anne BLOUNT

Anne BLOUNT

Father: John BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

Mother: Ellen HALL

Married: Thomas BLACKWELL of Shirley

Thomas BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

Born: ABT 1495, Blount's Hall, near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England

Father: John BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

Mother: Ellen HALL

Married: Catherine ASTON (dau. of Sir Walter Aston of Tixhall)

Children:

1. John BLOUNT (Sheriff of Staffordshire)

John BLOUNT (Sheriff of Staffordshire)

Father: Thomas BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

Mother: Catherine ASTON

Married: Susan DRAYCOT (dau. of Sir Phillip Draycott of Painsley and Elizabeth Fitzherbert) 1526

Children:

1. Edward BLOUNT of Arleston

2. Anthony BLOUNT

Edward BLOUNT of Arleston

Father: John BLOUNT (Sheriff of Staffordshire)

Mother: Susan DRAYCOT

Married: Anne TOUCHET

Walter BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1497, Blount's Hall, near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: John BLOUNT of Burton-upon-Trent

Mother: Ellen HALL

Married: Margaret (Mary) SUTTON ABT 1514, Osbaston, Leicestershire, England

Children:

1. William BLOUNT

2. Elizabeth BLOUNT

3. Mary BLOUNT

4. Anne BLOUNT

5. Ellen BLOUNT

6. Walter BLOUNT of Blount's Hall

Mary BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1527, Osbaston, Leicester, England

Notes: On one hand, Mary is called the daughter of Walter Blount and on the other hand it states that both Mary and Elizabeth were daughters of William Blount. I have seen sources list a daughter, Elizabeth, of William Blount, although she is said to have married Richard Saunders, another name associated with the Sydenham's.

In Chancery Depositions of 1599 "Walter Dennys of Clerkenwell, Middlesex, Esq., and Dame Mary his wieff late the wieff of Sir John Sydenham of Brympton, Somerset, Knt., deed... Whereas the said John Sydenham intended to take to wieff Dame Mary, one of the daughters of Walter Blount, Esq., decd.," etc. Lady Elizabeth Paulet, another daughter of William Blount, wife of Sir Hugh Paulet, and relict of Sir Thomas Pope, mentions in her will dated 16 Apr 1593, "my sister Lady Sydenham"

Father: Walter BLOUNT

Mother: Margaret (Mary) SUTTON

Married 1: John SYDENHAM (b. 1520 - d. BEF 1596) (son of John Sydenham and Ursula Brydges)

Married 2: Walter DENNYS

Elizabeth BLOUNT

Died: 7 Oct 1593

Father: Walter BLOUNT

Mother: Margaret (Mary) SUTTON

Married 1: Anthony BERESFORD of Bentley (Sir)

Married 2: Thomas POPE (Sir Knight) (See his Biography) 1540

Married 3: Hugh PAULET (Sir Knight) ABT 1559 / 12 Nov 1560

Anne BLOUNT

Died: 24 Apr 1594

Notes: Anne was left a bequest of 100 marks by her brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Pope, in 1559. According to the will of Richard Blount of Williton, Somersetshire and Coleman Street, London (d. 16 Nov 1575) written on 24 Dec 1575, Anne Blount, his cousin, was living in his house in London. He left her a pair of gold bracelets. “Anne Blunt of St. James Clerkenwell” made her will on 23 Apr 1594. It was proved 13 May 1594. In it she names her sister, Mary Blount, Lady Sydenham, to whom she left £20 and a “jewel with two agates and set about with pearl”, the children of another sister, Ellen (d.1577+), and her brother Walter. She was buried in Clerkenwell, where her date of death is, unaccountably, recorded as April

Father: Walter BLOUNT

Mother: Margaret (Mary) SUTTON

Ellen BLOUNT

Died: AFT 1577

Notes: maid of honor to Princess Mary before 22 Feb 1545/6, when she married her first husband, William Goodwin of Bermondsey, Surrey, auditor to the queen. In 1568, her second husband John Felton is mentioned in records in connection with the sale of £265 worth of ingots for an alchemical fraud. He appears to have been quite wealthy, but he was also a radical in religion. On 25 May 1570, he nailed a copy of the papal bull excommunicating Queen Elizabeth to the door of St. Paul’s. He was arrested, charged with heresy and treason, and executed in St. Paul’s Churchyard on 8 Aug 1570, thus becoming a Roman Catholic martyr. Ellen’s daughter Frances, in 1627, claimed that after Felton’s death her mother found favor with Queen Elizabeth, having been her childhood playmate, and was granted permission to keep a priest in the house. This seems unlikely. Ellen’s third husband was John Strangman, another recusant. She brought £50 per annum, a relatively small sum, to the marriage. Her son Thomas, who later became a Franciscan friar, served as a page to a Catholic gentlewoman, Elizabeth Paris, Lady Lovell, when he was a boy. This same Lady Lovell helped arrange his release when he was imprisoned for his faith in the late 1580s. He was executed on 28 Aug 1588, following in his father’s footsteps to become a Catholic martyr. It is likely that his mother had died before then, although he still had several maternal aunts and a maternal uncle living. She was definitely deceased by 23 Apr 1594, when her sister Anne made her will.

Father: Walter BLOUNT

Mother: Margaret (Mary) SUTTON

Married 1: William GOODWIN of Bermondsey (d. 30 Nov 1554)

Children:

1. Thomas GOODWIN (b. 1546)

2. Elizabeth GOODWIN (bp. 4 Sep 1550)

3. Walter GOODWIN (bp. 6 Aug 1552)

4. Pope GOODWIN (d. AFT 1594)

Married 2: John FELTON (d. 8 Aug 1570) 22 Jun 1557, Pentlow, Essex

Children:

5. Frances FELTON (b. 1560)

6. Ellen FELTON (b. 1564)

7. Joan FELTON

8. Thomas FELTON

Married 3: John STRANGMAN

William BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1515, Osbaston, Leicester, England

Died: 26 Nov 1592

Father: Walter BLOUNT

Mother: Margaret (Mary) SUTTON

Married: Frances (Joan) LOVE (b. ABT 1518, Aynhoe, Northampton, England) (dau. of Edward Love of Aynhoe and Alice Pope - niece of Sir Thomas Pope) ABT 1537, Osbaston, Leicester, England

Children:

1. Thomas POPE BLOUNT (Sir)

2. Richard BLOUNT (Jesuit) (b. 1565 - d. 1638)

3. George BLOUNT

4. Walter BLOUNT

5. Anne BLOUNT

6. Mary BLOUNT

Anne BLOUNT

Father: William BLOUNT

Mother: Frances (Joan) LOVE

Married: Edward PATE of Brin

Mary BLOUNT

Father: William BLOUNT

Mother: Frances (Joan) LOVE

Married: John MILWARD of Bradley Ash

Thomas POPE BLOUNT (Sir)

Born: 1554

Died: 1639

Father: William BLOUNT

Mother: Frances (Joan) LOVE

Married: Frances PIGOTT (dau of Sir Thomas Pigott of Dodershall)

Children:

1. Thomas POPE BLOUNT (b. 1598 - d. 1654) (dsp)

2. Henry POPE BLOUNT (Sir) (b. 1602 - d. 1682) (m. Hester Wase)

Humphrey BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Born: 1422/3, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: 12 Oct 1477, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice De La BERE

Married: Elizabeth WINNINGTON (b. ABT 1428 - d. 20 Apr 1478) (dau. of Robert Winnington of Cheshire and Catherine Holland) ABT 1452, Cheshire, England

Children:

1. Joan (Jane) BLOUNT

2. Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

3. John BLOUNT

4. Edward BLOUNT

5. William BLOUNT

6. Walter BLOUNT

7. Charles BLOUNT

8. Mary BLOUNT

9. Margaret BLOUNT

10. George BLOUNT (Sir)

11. Eleanor BLOUNT

George BLOUNT (Sir)

Born: ABT 1458

Father: Humphrey BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Elizabeth WINNINGTON

Married: Mary PERSHALE (dau. of Sir Hugh Pershall of Horsley)

Eleanor BLOUNT

Father: Humphrey BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Elizabeth WINNINGTON

Married: Humphrey COTES of Woodcote (b. 1453 - d, 1485)

Joan (Jane) BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1454, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: 1 Sep 1486

Father: Humphrey BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Elizabeth WINNINGTON

Married: Thomas OFFLEY of Pitchley ABT 1474, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Children:

1. Mary OFFLEY

2. Elizabeth OTTELEY

Walter BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1463, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: SP

Father: Humphrey BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Elizabeth WINNINGTON

Married: Elizabeth (Margaret) ACTON ABT 1488, Astley, Worcester, England

John BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1457, Eye (Yee), Hereford, England

Died: 1506

Father: Humphrey BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Elizabeth WINNINGTON

Married: Elizabeth (Eye) YEE ABT 1487, Eye, Hereford, England

Children:

1. William BLOUNT

2. Richard BLOUNT

3. John BLOUNT

4. Catherine BLOUNT

5. Francis BLOUNT

Catherine BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1506, Shropshire, England

Died: 1591

Father: John BLOUNT

Mother: Elizabeth (Eye) YEE

Married: Humphrey LEE ABT 1529, Langley, Shropshire, England

Children:

1. John LEE

2. Thomas LEE

3. Franciscus LEE

John BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1506, Shropshire, England

Died: 1591

Father: John BLOUNT

Mother: Elizabeth (Eye) YEE

Married: Anne SMYTHE

Children:

1. John BLOUNT

2. Elizabeth BLOUNT

3. George BLOUNT

Elizabeth BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1530

Father: John BLOUNT

Mother: Anne SMYTHE

Married: Son BERRINGTON

John BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1530

Father: John BLOUNT

Mother: Anne SMYTHE

Married: Catherine WARNECOMBE (b. ABT 1530) (dau. of James Warnecombe)

Children:

1. John BLOUNT

John BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1550

Father: John BLOUNT

Mother: Catherine WARNECOMBE

Married: Elizabeth ?

Children:

1. Walter BLOUNT

2. Francis BLOUNT

3. Herbert BLOUNT (b. 13 Oct 1589) 

4. Thomas BLOUNT

Walter BLOUNT

Born: ABT 3 Aug 1581

Father: John BLOUNT

Mother: Elizabeth ?

Married: Mary ?

Children:

1. Richard BLOUNT

Francis BLOUNT

Born: ABT 7 Aug 1583

Father: John BLOUNT

Mother: Elizabeth ?

Married: Mary ?

Children:

1. Francis BLOUNT

2. Thomas BLOUNT

3. Edward BLOUNT

4. John BLOUNT

5. George BLOUNT

Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight) 

Born: 1455, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: 4 Jun 1524

Notes: Sheriff of Shropshire.

Father: Humphrey BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Elizabeth WINNINGTON

Married: Anne CROFT (d. 27 Sep 1549) (dau. of Sir Richard Croft and Eleanor Cornwall) ABT 1480, Shropshire, England

Children:

1. Anne BLOUNT

2. Eleanor BLOUNT

3. John BLOUNT (Sir)

4. Margaret BLOUNT

5. Walter BLOUNT of Astley

6. Arthur BLOUNT (b. 1488 - d. 24 Feb 1531)

7. Jocosa (Joyce) BLOUNT

8. Robert BLOUNT

9. Johanna BLOUNT

10. Edward BLOUNT

11. Ursula BLOUNT

12. Dau. BLOUNT

13. Catherine BLOUNT

14. William BLOUNT

15. Thomas BLOUNT

16. Agnes BLOUNT

17. Son BLOUNT

Anne BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1481, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married: Humphrey MASSEY ABT 1501, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Eleanor BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1482, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married: Thomas SCRIVEN of Frodesley (son of Robet Scriven and Alice Corbet) ABT 1502, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Children:

1. Joan SCRIVEN

Margaret BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1485, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married: John CORBET (MP) (son of Thomas Corbet and Jane Knyaston) (m.2 Joyce Pakington - m.3 Agnes Boothe) ABT 1505, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Children:

1. Thomas CORBET (m. Alice Lacon)

Jocosa (Joyce) BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1490, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married 1: Thomas Francis THORNEY ABT 1510, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Married 2: John COMBES

Robert BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1491, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Acceded: Eckington, Derbyshire, England

Died: 1580/1

Notes: may have followed his eldest brother John to court and was perhaps the sewer of the chamber of that name mentioned in 1509; he later became a servant of the 4th Earl of Shrewsbury. He settled at Eckington in north-east Derbyshire, five miles from Shrewsbury’s manor of Handsworth, presumably on land granted him by the earl, and he married into a Derbyshire family; but he retained his interest in Shropshire and in 1536, at Shrewsbury’s request, the abbot of Combermere leased him the parsonage of Childs Ercall, in the north of his native county.

Blount went on to serve Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, who succeeded to the title in 1538. During 1544 he accompanied Shrewsbury into Scotland and early in the following year he was sent by his master to conduct the Earl of Cassillis to court. In May 1547 Shrewsbury, hitherto preoccupied with his northern responsibilities, was appointed lord lieutenant of a block of counties which included Shropshire. This extension of the earl’s influence doubtless reinforced Blount’s claim to one of the Ludlow seats in the Parliament of 1547: his family was in any case an important one in the neighbourhood and Blount himself was to hold office under the council in the marches, although whether or not before his election is not clear. Nothing is known of his part in the proceedings of the Parliament and he was not to be returned again. During the first prorogation he captained a band against the Scots.

Of the remaining 25 years of Blount’s life nothing has come to light. By his will of 1 Oct 1576 he left £200 to each of his unmarried daughters and an annuity of 20 marks to his younger son; his remaining daughters appear to have married in the vicinity of his lands in north-east Derbyshire and at Handsworth near Sheffield. These lands Blount left to his wife and executrix during her lifetime with remainder to his heir George; there is no mention of property in Shropshire. Richard Vincent of Firsby in south Yorkshire was named supervisor of the will, which was proved in Apr 1581.

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married 1: Elizabeth COLUMBEL ABT 1516, Darley, Derbyshire, England

Children:

1. George BLOUNT

Married 2: Goodeth NEWSON 1565

Johanna BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1493, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: 10 Jul 1549

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married 1: Robert SMYTHE ABT 1513

Married 2: John MONINGTON

Married 3: Son HENNINGTON

Ursula BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1496, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married: Francis GOWER ABT 1516, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Dau. BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1497, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married 1: Son (REAKE) LERKE ABT 1517, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Married 2: Son WHITNEAD ABT 1519, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Catherine BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1501, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: 10 Jul 1549, Thames Delle

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married 1: Robert SMYTHE ABT 1521, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Married 2: John COMBES

William BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1503, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: 1539

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married: Margaret ? ABT 1532, Kidderminster, Worcester, England

Agnes BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1506, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: 29 Jul 1580

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married: Simon CLARE ABT 1526, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Children:

1. Claire CLARE (m. Thomas Pitt)

Edward BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1494, Kidderminster, Worcester, England

Died: 1 Sep 1559, Kidderminster, Worcester, England

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married 1: Margaret GARNEYS (dau. of John Garneys and Elizabeth Sulyard) (m.2 John Cotton) ABT 1514, Kidderminster, Worcester, England

1. Gilbert BLOUNT

3. John BLOUNT

4. Christopher BLOUNT

5. Jocosa BLOUNT

6. Catherine BLOUNT

7. Son BLOUNT

Married 2: Joan ?

Catherine BLOUNT

Mother: Margaret GARNEYS

Married: James CROFT of Croft Castle (Sir) (See his Biography)

Thomas BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1515, Kidderminster, Worcester, England

Died: 28 Nov 1569

Mother: Margaret GARNEYS

Children:

2. Maria BLOUNT

3. Edward BLOUNT

Catherine BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1532, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England

Died: ABT 1560

Mother: Margaret POLEY

Married: Walter GRIFFITH (son of George Griffith and Elizabeth Skeffington)

Children:

Edward BLOUNT

Born: 1554, Kidderminster, Worcester, England

Died: 13 Nov 1630

Mother: Margaret POLEY

Children:

John BLOUNT (Sir)

Born: 1480, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: 14 Feb 1531/ 1542, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married: Catherine PERSHALL (b. 1484) (dau. of Hugh Pershall and Isabel Stanley) 1 Aug 1492, Shropshire, England

Children:

1. Elizabeth BLOUNT (B. Talboys of Kyme/B. Clinton of Marstoke)

2. George BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

4. Margaret BLOUNT

5. Rosa BLOUNT

6. Albora BLOUNT

7. Isabella BLOUNT

9. Henry BLOUNT

10. Constance BLOUNT

Anne (Agnes) BLOUNT

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir)

Mother: Catherine PERSHALL

Children:

1. Rowland LACON (m. Eleanor Rigges)

2. William LACON

Married 2: Thomas RIDLEY (MP)

Children:

3. Cecily RIDLEY

Rosa BLOUNT

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir)

Mother: Catherine PERSHALL

Married: William GRESLEY ABT 1530, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Isabella BLOUNT

Died: 1540

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir)

Mother: Catherine PERSHALL

Married: William READE of Wyckford ABT 1534, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Henry BLOUNT

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir)

Mother: Catherine PERSHALL

Married: Joan SOMERVILLE (dau. of Robert Somerville and Mary Greville) (m.2 Edmund Colles) ABT 1537, Edreston, Warwicks, England

William BLOUNT (Sir)

Died: 1544, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pale of Calais, France

Notes: following his father’s death while he was still in his ’teens, William Blount entered the household of his nephew the Duke of Richmond. The prospect of advancement thus afforded was dispelled by Richmond’s death in Jul 1536 and there is no indication that Blount benefited from his mother’s earlier approach to Cromwell for the bestowal on him and his younger brother Henry of some of the monastic lands believed to be marked down for confiscation. Unlike this brother, Blount is not found in Cromwell’s service, but in 1540 he joined his elder brother George in the ranks of the gentlemen pensioners; his association with Sir Adrian Fortescue evidently did not compromise him when Fortescue was executed for treason in 1539.

Blount’s return for Wenlock to the Parliament of 1542 can be attributed to his family’s local ascendancy and in particular to his sister’s marriage to Richard Lacon of Willey, one of the most influential figures in the town. That his elder brother did not claim the seat, as he was to do later, may mean that George Blount was elected for the shire, the names of the knights on this occasion being lost; the Walter Blount who sat for Stafford was a remote kinsman. The Parliament ended in Mar 1544 and the following summer saw Blount take part in the campaign leading to the capture of Boulogne. Knighted there on 30 Sep, he was put in command of 400 pioneers engaged in defending Lower Boulogne against the French attempt to recover the town. As this is the last certain reference found to him he may have been killed in action. The captains named Blount who served later in France and Scotland did not, so far as their christian names are recorded, bear his own.

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir)

Mother: Catherine PERSHALL

George BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Died: 20 Jul 1582, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir)

Mother: Catherine PERSHALL

Children:

1. Dorothy BLOUNT

2. Sarah BLOUNT

3. John BLOUNT (b. 1547 - d. 1552)

Sarah BLOUNT

Father: George BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Constance TALBOT

Children:

1. Thomas WILLIS (b. 1582) (m. Mary Tomlins)

Dorothy BLOUNT

Father: George BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Constance TALBOT

Children:

1. Rowland PURSLOWE

2. Catherine PURSLOWE

Elizabeth BLOUNT (B. Talboys of Kyme/B. Clinton of Marstoke)

Born: ABT 1502/12, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Died: AFT 6 Feb 1539

Notes: See her Biography.

Father: John BLOUNT (Sir)

Mother: Catherine PERSHALL

Associated with: HENRY VIII TUDOR (King of England)

Children:

1. Henry FITZROY (D. Richmond)

Married 1: Gilbert TALBOYS (1º B. Talboys of Kyme) 1522

Children:

2. George TALBOYS (2° B. Talboys of Kyme)

3. Elizabeth TALBOYS (B. Talboys of Kyme)

4. Robert TALBOYS (3° B. Talboys of Kyme)

Married 2: Edward FIENNES CLINTON (1° E. Lincoln) BET 1533/35, Kinlet, Shropshire, England

Children:

5. Catherine CLINTON FIENNES (B. Borough of Gainsborough)

6. Bridget CLINTON FIENNES

7. Margaret CLINTON FIENNES (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Walter BLOUNT of Astley

Born: ABT 1487, Astley, Worcester, England

Died: 3 Oct 1561, England

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Anne CROFT

Married: Isabel (Margaret) ACTON (dau. and coheir of Walter Acton of Acton) (w. of Thomas Broughton) ABT 1512, Acton, Worcester, England

Children:

1. Joyce BLOUNT

2. Elizabeth BLOUNT

3. Isabel BLOUNT

4. Richard BLOUNT

5. Anne BLOUNT

6. Robert BLOUNT of Astley

7. Margery BLOUNT

8. Carolus BLOUNT

9. Francis BLOUNT

10. John BLOUNT

Joyce BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1518, Astley, Worcester, England

Father: Walter BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Isabel (Margaret) ACTON

Married: Hugh REYNOLDS 1541, Astley, Worcester, England

Elizabeth BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1520, Astley, Worcester, England

Father: Walter BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Isabel (Margaret) ACTON

Married: Richard WINFORD 1544, Astley, Worcester, England

Isabel BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1523, Astley, Worcester, England

Father: Walter BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Isabel (Margaret) ACTON

Married: John GREENE 1563, Astley, Worcester, England

Anne BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1529, Astley, Worcester, England

Died: 1579

Father: Walter BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Isabel (Margaret) ACTON

Married: Anthony NOTT 1550, Astley, Worcester, England

Margery BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1513, Astley, Worcester, England

Father: Walter BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Isabel (Margaret) ACTON

Married: Roger STAMFORD ABT 1533, Astley, Worcester, England

Robert BLOUNT of Astley

Born: ABT 1539, Astley, Worcester, England

Died: 4 May 1572, Astley, Worcestershire, England

Father: Walter BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Isabel (Margaret) ACTON

Married: Anne FISHER (dau. of Hugh Fisher and Anne Wall) (m.2 Robert Washington of Sulgrave Manor) 1562, Elmley, Lovet, Worcester, England

Children:

1. Thomas BLOUNT of Astley

2. Walter BLOUNT

3. Elizabeth BLOUNT

4. Margaret BLOUNT

5. Robert BLOUNT

Margaret BLOUNT

Born: 1573, Astley, Worcester, England

Father: Robert BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Anne FISHER

Married: Thomas ACTON ABT 1593, Astley, Worcester, England

Walter BLOUNT

Born: 1567/1568, Astley, Worcester, England

Died: 1625/1633, Spain

Father: Robert BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Anne FISHER

Married: ¿? ABT 1590, Astley, Worcester, England

Robert BLOUNT

Born: 1573, Astley, Worcester, England

Died: 1612

Father: Robert BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Anne FISHER

Married: ¿? ABT 1599, Worcester, England

Thomas BLOUNT of Astley

Christened: 27 Dec 1564, Astley, Worcester, England

Died: 30 Nov 1624, Wd

Father: Robert BLOUNT of Astley

Mother: Anne FISHER

Married 1: Frances ? ABT 1584, Astley, Worcester, England

Children:

1. William BLOUNT (b. 1587 - d. 1655)

2. Basil BLOUNT

Married 2: Bridget BROME ABT 1586, Astley, Worcester, England

Children:

3. William BLOUNT

4. Catherine BLOUNT

5. Harold BLOUNT

6. Thomas BLOUNT

7. James BLOUNT

8. Margaret BLOUNT (b. ABT 1595 - d. 27 May 1621)

9. Francis BLOUNT

10. Charles BLOUNT  (b. ABT 1599 - d. 1655)

11. Christopher BLOUNT

12. Walter BLOUNT

13. Anne BLOUNT

14. Marie BLOUNT

James BLOUNT

Died: 1655, Battle of Worcester, England

Mother: Bridget BROME

Married: Anne CLARE

1. John BLOUNT

2. Thomas BLOUNT

3. James BLOUNT

Francis BLOUNT

Died: 1655

Mother: Bridget BROME

Married: ¿?

1. Dorothy BLOUNT

2. Bridget BLOUNT

3. John BLOUNT

III. MAPLEDURHAM LINE

Born: ABT 1450, Mapledurham (near Reading), Oxfordshire, England

Notes: Sherriff of Buckingham and Bedfordshire.

Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir)

Mother: Margaret (Catherine) CLIFTON

Married: Elizabeth De La FORD (dau. of William De La Ford and Parnell Whitton)

1. Elizabeth BLOUNT

2. Margaret BLOUNT

3. William BLOUNT

4. Richard BLOUNT of Maple Durham (Sir)

5. Robert BLOUNT

6. Barnaby BLOUNT

Elizabeth BLOUNT

Born: 1474

Died: 1560

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Iver (Sir)

Married 1: Thomas WOODFORD

1. Ursula WOODFORD

Richard BLOUNT of Mapledurham (Sir)

Born: ABT 1514, Maple Durham, Oxfordshire, England

Died: 11 Aug 1564

Blount’s main estates were in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and his return as knight for the former county in 1563 reflects his local as well as his national position. He had a number of grants of local offices and lands in other parts of the kingdom, and his will, dated 23 May 1560, mentions lands in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Somerset and Sussex, purchased in the previous 20 years. Most of the lands descended to his elder son Michael, but he left Dedisham to his younger son Richard. He died on 11 Aug 1564 and was buried in the Tower. A memorial to him is in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula there. His will was proved 26 Aug by his widow.

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Iver (Sir)

Married: Elizabeth LYSTER 1529

1. Michael BLOUNT of Mapledurham

2. Elizabeth BLOUNT

3. Anne BLOUNT

4. Richard BLOUNT of Dedisham

5. Barbara BLOUNT

Anne BLOUNT

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Maple Durham (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth LYSTER

Married 2: Leonard CHAMBERLAIN of Shirburn Castle (Sir Knight) (d. 1561) (son of Edward Chamberlain and Cecily Verney) (w. of Dorothy Newdigate)

Barbara BLOUNT

Died: 24 Mar 1578

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Maple Durham (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth LYSTER

Married: Francis SHIRLEY of West Grinstead (b. ABT 1524 - d. 24 Mar 1578) (son of Thomas Shirley and Elizabeth Gorges)

Children:

1. Elizabeth SHIRLEY (m.1 William Wyborne - m.2 Ambrose Vaux)

Elizabeth BLOUNT

Born: 1535, Maple Durham, Oxfordshire, England

Died: 1587

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Maple Durham (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth LYSTER

Married: Nicholas St. JOHN of Lydiard Tregoze

Children:

1. John St. JOHN (Sir Knight)

2. Elizabeth ST. JOHN

3. Oliver St. JOHN

4. Oliver St. JOHN (1° V. Grandison)

5. Richard St. JOHN

6. Catherine St. JOHN

7. Eleanor St. JOHN

Richard BLOUNT of Dedisham

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Maple Durham (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth LYSTER

Married 1: Mary WEST

Married 2: Elizabeth WEST ABT 1575, Dedisham, Sussex, England

Children:

1. Mary BLOUNT

2. Elizabeth BLOUNT

3. Lister BLOUNT

4. Martha BLOUNT

Mary BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1580

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Dedisham

Mother: Elizabeth WEST

Married: Lewis LEWKNOR (Sir) (son of Thomas Lewknor and Bridget Lewes)

Elizabeth BLOUNT

Born: 1583

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Dedisham

Mother: Elizabeth WEST

Married: Nicholas SAUNDERS (Sir)

Children:

1. Frances SAUNDERS

2. Isabella SAUNDERS

3. Carew SAUNDERS

4. Elizabeth SAUNDERS

5. Henry SAUNDERS

Lister BLOUNT

Died: BEF 1661

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Dedisham

Mother: Elizabeth WEST

Married: Joyce ASPLEY

Martha BLOUNT

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Dedisham

Mother: Elizabeth WEST

Married: George AYLIFFE

Michael BLOUNT of Mapledurham

Died: 11 Nov 1609

Notes: Lieutenant of the Tower of London. "My well beloved son-in-law Michael Blunt esquire" is named as one of the executors of the Will of Dame Agnes Saunders, widow which was made on 27 Aug 1588. Probate was granted to Michael Blount, George Fermor and Ambrose Belson, the executors, on 9 Nov 1588.

In 1588 Sir Michael raised a loan of £1,500 for the purpose, it is believed, of building the present House, an altogether grander one which better expressed his status as a high official of Elizabeth I. It was completed by his son Sir Richard in 1612; he also increased his estate by buying, in 1582, the smaller Chazey manor from Anthony Brydges. He tried unsuccessfully to claim the extinct barony of Mountjoy on the death of the Earl of Devonshire. The House of Lords rejecting the claim for lack of evidence.

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Maple Durham (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth LYSTER

Children:

1. Richard BLOUNT of Mapledurham (Sir)

2. Catherine BLOUNT

3. Thomas BLOUNT (Esq.)

5. Henry BLOUNT (b. 17 Aug 1572)

6. Robert BLOUNT (b. 3 Feb 1573)

7. Maria BLOUNT (b. 15 Nov 1565)

8. Elizabeth BLOUNT (dsp)

9. Anna BLOUNT (dsp)

10. Frances BLOUNT (b. 23 Feb 1569)

11. Elizabeth BLOUNT (b. 28 Jul 1574)

Catherine BLOUNT

Father: Michael BLOUNT of Mapledurham

Mother: Mary MOORE

Married 1: John CROKE (Sir) (son of Sir John Croke and Elizabeth Unton)

Children:

1. John CROKE (Sir)

2. Henry CROKE  (Sir)

3. Unton CROKE (MP)

Thomas BLOUNT (Esq.)

Charles BLOUNT

Born: 5 Nov 1568

Died: 1600

Notes: accompanied the Earl of Essex on the expedition to capture Cadiz. He died on the voyage back to England and was buried at St Thomas, Portsmouth.

Father: Michael BLOUNT of Mapledurham

Mother: Mary MOORE

Richard BLOUNT of Mapledurham (Sir)

Born: 28 Jun 1564

Died: 11 May 1628

Notes: Perhaps because of his ambivalent religious position Blount, like his grandfather and father, took little part in public affairs and held no office outside the counties where his lands lay. In 1593 he was ordered to assist in dealing with certain recusants at Lady Montagu’s house, and five years later he is mentioned as refusing to contribute a horse for the army in Ireland; but these are the only two references found to his activities before 1601, the year in which he was returned to Parliament through the influence of his distant kinsman Henry, 5th Baron Windsor.

Blount himself was described as a non-communicant in 1612, but he presumably conformed before being appointed sheriff in 1625. The outright recusancy of his wife Cecily and of his eldest son, Sir Charles, must have strained his resources, but he left considerable estates at Bicester, Mapledurham and elsewhere, and made large bequests to his children, including £1,500 to his unmarried daughter. An elaborate priest hole dating from the sixteenth or early seventeenth century still exists at Mapledurham. Blount died 11 May 1628 and was buried in Mapledurham church, where a monument was erected.

Father: Michael BLOUNT of Mapledurham

Married 1: Cicely BAKER

Children:

1. Elizabeth BLOUNT

2. Charles BLOUNT (Sir)

3. William BLOUNT

4. Eleanor BLOUNT

5. Michael BLOUNT

6. James BLOUNT

Married 2: Elizabeth MOORE (dau. of Francis Moore of East Ilsley and South Fawley and Anne Twitty)

Elizabeth BLOUNT

Died: AFT 1631, Oxfordshire, England

Father: Richard BLOUNT of Mapledurham (Sir)

Mother: Cicely BAKER

Children:

1. George BROWNE

2. John BROWNE (1º Bt.) (m. Elizabeth Bredley)

Richard BLOUNT alias "Leigh"

Died: 17 Nov 1575

Notes: illegitimate sons of Sir John Leigh, son of Ralph Leigh and Joyce Culpeper, half brother of Queen Catherine Howard, by a mistress, possibly of Blount surname. Sir John was married to Elizabeth Darcy, sister of Thomas Darcy, Lord Chiche. Since in his will Richard describes the children of Walter Blount as his ‘cousins’, it seems likely that the testator was a descendant of John Blount (d. 1524) and Ellen Hall.

Since the testator’s sisters are identified in the will only by the surnames of their husbands, it is not known whether they were the testator’s sisters of the whole blood, or whether they were Sir John Leigh’s daughters by a different mistress or mistresses. Elizabeth, who married a husband surnamed Haffehede [=Halfhead?], by whom she had issue. The testator also mentions his niece, ‘Ursula Haffehede’, who ‘married Digbie’. This appears to be Ursula Halfehead of London, who married John Digby, son and heir of Henry Digby and Margaret, his wife. Agnes, who married a husband surnamed Milliton, by whom she had issue. Maud, who married a husband surnamed Seymour, by whom she had issue. Anne, who married a husband surnamed Robson, by whom she had a son, Thomas Robson.

In the will Richard mentions two brothers: Robert Blount, who married and had issue, including a son, Richard Blount, and another unnamed son, both of whom were under twenty-four years of age when the testator made his will; and Thomas Blount, who was a cleric.

Blount may have been in the service of the Paulets; he was an overseer of Sir Hugh’s will, and on his own death, 16 Nov 1575, he bequeathed a cross of gold with four diamonds and a ‘portique’ of gold to his ‘very good lady and friend’ (and possibly even relative, for she was née Blount) Lady Paulet, Sir Hugh’s wife, and instructed his widow, the sole executrix, to return ‘all such chests and goods which, of trust in the time of my lady her absence, remain in my home and were delivered unto me to be kept for her’. Another patron was Lady Sydenham, wife of Sir John Sydenham, to whom he bequeathed a ‘table diamond’. He provided for the maintenance of a poor scholar — to be nominated by the town of Stafford—at Oxford and left £100 to the fellows of Trinity College. The attorney-general Sir Gilbert Gerard, the solicitor-general Thomas Bromley and Lady Paulet were among the overseers of his will, which was proved 16 Dec 1575. See: BLOUNT, Richard I (d.1575), of Williton, Som. and Coleman Street, London.

Father: John LEIGH (Sir)

Mother: Dau. BLOUNT

Married: Margaret BOSTOCK (dau. of Roger Bostock of Moberley and Felice Heaton) (m.2 Jasper Fisher - m.3 Nicholas Saunders)

Children:

1. Elizabeth BLOUNT

David BLOUNT

Died: 1324

Father: David Le BLOUNT

Mother: Petronilla PUTOT

Married: Amabilla ARCHER

Children:

Edmund BLOUNT

Born: 1290, Bitton, Gloucester, England

Died: 1362

Father: David BLOUNT

Mother: Amabilla ARCHER

Married: Alicia ?

Children:

1. Hugh BLOUNT

Hugh BLOUNT

Born: 1316

Died: 1361

Father: Edmund BLOUNT

Mother: Alicia ?

Married:

Children:

1. Edmund BLOUNT

Edmund BLOUNT

Died: 1381

Father: Hugh BLOUNT

Mother: ¿?

Married: Margaret (Mary) ?

Children:

1. John BLOUNT of Bitton

John BLOUNT of Bitton

Died: 1444, Bitton, Gloucestershire, England

Father: Edmund BLOUNT

Mother: Margaret (Mary) ?

Married: Alicia ABARLE ABT 1405

Children:

Edmund (Edward) BLOUNT

Born: 1406, Bitton, Gloucestershire, England / ABT 1439, Mangotsfield, Gloucester, England

Died: 10 Apr 1468

Notes: died 10 Apr 1469, according to "Visitation of Gloucestershire". According to "History of Gloucestershire" died in 1468 at age 62.

Father: John BLOUNT of Bitton / John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alicia ABARLE / Alice De La BERE

Married 1: Margaret SEYMOUR ABT 1451

Children:

1. Simon BLOUNT

2. Elizabeth BLOUNT

Married 2: Ellen HALL

Children:

3. Margaret BLOUNT

Elizabeth BLOUNT

Father: Edmund (Edward) BLOUNT

Mother: Margaret SEYMOUR

Married: John YORKE of Halthorp

Children:

1. Eleanor YORKE (b. ABT 1480) (m. Robert Hungerford of Cadnam)

Margaret BLOUNT

Born: ABT 1465, Mangotsfield, Gloucester, England

Died: BEF 23 May 1531, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England

Buried: The Abbey, Cirencester, England

Notes: Some references note Margaret's father as "John St. John", not Edmund.

Father: Edmund (Edward) BLOUNT

Mother: Ellen HALL

Married: John HUNGERFORD

Children:

1. Anthony HUNGERFORD

4. Frideswide HUNGERFORD

7. John HUNGERFFORD

8. George HUNGERFORD

Simon BLOUNT

Born: 1448, Bitton, Gloucester, England

Died: 1477, Gloucestershire, England

Notes: son and heir of Edmund Blount had died under age in 1477, according to "Medieval Deeds of Bath and District".

Father: Edmund (Edward) BLOUNT

Mother: Margaret SEYMOUR

Married: Eleanor DAUBENEY

Children:

1. Margaret BLOUNT

Margaret BLOUNT

Born: 3 Oct 1474, Bitton, Gloucester, England

Notes: at her father death in 1477, custody of Margaret Blount had been given to William Hussey, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and father of John Hussey. "Visitation of Yorkshire" shows Margaret Blount to be the first wife of John Hussey while "Extinct Peerage" erronously claims Anne Grey to be his first wife.

Father: Simon BLOUNT

Mother: Eleanor DAUBENEY

Married 1: John BARR of Barr Court (Sir)

Married 2: John HUSSEY (1° B. Hussey of Sleaford) 1490, Mangotsfield, Gloucester, England

Children:

1. William HUSSEY (Sir Knight)

2. Thomas HUSSEY (b. ABT 1495)

3. Gilbert HUSSEY (b. ABT 1497)

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