Catherine Blount

Ben M. Angel notes: Despite the long entry detailing her nearby family (mostly her husband's family), Catherine's parents are not sourced by any cited literature. Neither is her birth date. Therefore, these were removed from the profile until something with a primary citation can be found.

The two main assertions about her parents were:

Option 1:

• Father: Sir Gervase Clifton (c1388-1453 - dates unverified)
• Mother: Isabel Francis (c1419-1457 - dates unverified)

Option 2:

• Father: Gervase Clifton (c1438-1491 - dates unverified)
• Mother: Alice Neville (b. c1442 - dates unverified)

Please post citations and bring them to the curator's attention if you've a cited source supporting either of these assertions or any that are completely separate of these.

• 'A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great ..., Volume 3 By John Burke
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great ..., Volume 3 By John Burke
• Pg. 167
  • SIR THOMAS BLOUNT, treasurer of Normandy, who was then seated at Elwaston, in Derbyshire, and to whom the Duke of Exeter gave one thousand marks (L666. 6s. 8d.) to found a charity at Leicester. Sir Thomas m. first, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Greseley, knt. of Greseley, in the county of Derby, and dying in 1456, left two sons and three daughters, viz.
    • I. WALTER (Sir), lord high treasurer of England, created, in 1464, by patent, BARON MONTJOY, a dignity which expired with his descendant, Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire, in 1606. (See BURKE'S Extinct and Dormant Peerage.)
    • ' II. THOMAS (Sir), of whom presently.
    • Upon the extinction of the Lords Mountjoy, the representation of the family devolved upon the descendant of the second son, the above named
    • ' SIR THOMAS BLOUNT: preceed we therefore with his line. In 1462, King EDWARD IV. granted him the manor of Milton Ross, and other estates in the counties of Leicester and Lincoln, and appointed him, in the same year, treasurer of Calais. He married first, Agnes, daughter and heir of Sir John Hawley, knt. of Canons Utterby, in Lincolnshire, and had issue,
      • I. ROBERT, born in 1459, who died in 1514.
      • II. Elizabeth, m. to Richard Hausard.
    • ' Sir Thomas espoused, secondly, Catharine, daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton, of Clifton, Notts. and left by that lady, at his deacease, 8th EDWARD IV. 1468, an only son,
      • RICHARD BLOUNT, who m. ELIZABETH, only daughter and heir of WILLIAM DE LA FORD, of Iver, in the county of Buckingham, by whom he acquired the estate in that place, and purchasing the manor of MAPLE DURHAM GURNEY, in the county of Oxford, on the 1st February, 1489, fixed his permanent abode there. He served the office of sheriff for Bucks and Bedfordshire in the 18th HENRY VII. A.D. 1502. He d. on the 31st November, 1508 (buried at Iver, Bucks), leaving one son and two daughters, viz.
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• 'The genealogical history of the Croke family, originally named Le Blount (1823) Vol. 2 Author: Croke, Alexander, Sir, 1758-1842
• http://www.archive.org/details/genealogicalhist02crok
• http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalhist02crok#page/254/mode/1up
• These Blounts had the same common ancestors with the Mountjoy branch, Sir Walter Blount of Rock, and Johanna de Sodington, Sir John Blount of Sodington, and Eleanor Beauchamp, Sir Walter Blount, and Sancha de Ayala, Sir Thomas Blount the Treasurer of Normandy, and Margaret Greseley. But as Sir Walter Blount, the first Lord Mountjoy, was the eldest son of the Treasurer of Normandy, the ancestor of this branch was Sir Thomas Blount, the second son, and consequently the younger brother of the first Baron Mountjoy.
  • ' Sir Thomas Blount received many marks of favour from his Sovereign. Edward the Fourth, in the second year of his reign, granted to him, and his heirs male, the manor of Melton Roos, in Leicestershire, late the property of Thomas Lord de Roos, attainted ; all the hereditaments at Lyndewode, called Bayhousfee, in the same county, late belonging to William Viscount Beaumont, attainted ; and likewise the manor of Bayous Fee in Lind\vood. And, in his fourth year, Melton Roos, Wotton and Elsham, a tan house, (barcariam,) and sixty acres of meadow in Gouxhill, thirty acres of meadow in the same, the manors of Lyndwode Baions, and Thoresway-Nevill, lands in Winterton, and lands in Teleby,
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalhist02crok#page/255/mode/1up all in Lincolnshire, late the property of William Viscount Beaumont. In the same year he was appointed Treasurer of Calais.
  • He was twice, or thrice married. His first wife was Agnes, the daughter and heir of Sir John Hawley, Knight, descended from Robert Hawley of Conon Utterby in Lincolnshire, who bore for their arms, vert, a saltier engrailed, or. By her he had two children, Robert, and Elizabeth. Robert, whose wife is unknown, was born in the thirty-seventh of Henry the Sixth, 1459, was nine years old at his father's death, and died in the sixth year of Henry the Eighth, 1514, leaving children. Elizabeth married Richard Hansard, Esquire, who bore, gules, three mullets, pierced, argent.
  • ' His second wife was Catherine, the daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton, of Clifton in Nottinghamshire, Knight, who bore, sable, a lion rampant, between eight cinquefoils, argent, langued gules. She was by his second wife, Alice, the daughter of Sir Thomas Neville of Rolleston in Nottinghamshire, who bore, gules, a saltier, ermine.
  • It should seem that he married a third wife, named Isabella. For in the Close Rolls of the fifteenth year of Edward the Fourth, 1475, it is stated, that Thomas Bryan, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, married Isabella, who had been the wife of Thomas Blount, Esquire, deceased, and who claimed her dower.
  • ' Sir Thomas Blount died in the eighth year of Edward the Fourth, 1468, when it was found that he was seized of the manors of Melton Roos, Wotton, Lindwode, Bayons, and Thoresby ; that Agnes was his wife, and Robert their son and heir, and of nine years of age.
    • His only son by his second wife was Richard Blount, Esquire, who married Elizabeth, the only daughter and heir of William de la Ford, of Iver in Buckinghamshire, by whom he acquired the estate at that place. He purchased part of the estate at Maple-Durham, where he afterwards
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalhist02crok#page/256/mode/1up
    • resided, and he was Sheriff for Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, which then had but one Sheriff, in the eighteenth year of Henry the Seventh, 1502. It was his will that he should be buried in the chancel in Iver church. His coat of arms was to be seen there in painted glass, but it is now destroyed. He died the 31st of November, 1508, and was buried according to his request. The monument is still to be seen. It is now a flat stone in the chancel, but the present clerk (1820) remembers when it was a high monument. There are two figures, and a coat of arms at the head and feet of each figure. It is much defaced. The brass inscription has been taken away, but the clerk remembers it, and, being in Latin, was thus translated to him. "To Richard Blount and Elizabeth" his wife, daughter and heir of Richard (William) Ford of this parish. " Obiit November 31, 1608." There are two coats of arms. First, quarterly, 1. Ayala, the wolves ; 2. Ayala, the tower; 3. Blount, nebuly ; 4. Beauchamp, vairy. There is no annulet, or other mark of difference. The other coat is the same as the first, impaled with, quarterly, first and .fourth, a pale ; second and third, a chevron between three pheons, for Delaford, and Spycer.
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• 'Catherine Clifton
• 'F, b. circa 1457
• Father Sir Gervase Clifton, Treasurer of Calais d. 12 May 1491
• Mother Alice Neville b. c 1430, d. b 1482
• ' Catherine Clifton was born circa 1457. She married Sir Thomas Blount, son of Sir Thomas Blount and Margaret de Gresley, circa 1466.
• 'Family Sir Thomas Blount b. c 1420, d. 1468
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1591.htm#...
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• 'Thomas BLOUNT (Sir)
• Born: ABT 1420, Girsby, Lincoln, England
• Died: 1468
• Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir)
• Mother: Margery GRESLEY
• Married: Agnes HAWLEY ABT 1453, Girsby, Burgh-On-Bain, Lincolnshire, England
• Children:
  • 1. Anne BLOUNT
  • 2. Elizabeth BLOUNT
  • 3. Robert BLOUNT
• 'Married 2: Margaret (Catherine) CLIFTON (dau. of Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton-upon-Trent and Alice Neville) ABT 1466, Nottingham, England
• Children:
  • 4. Richard BLOUNT
• 'Married 3: Isabella ?
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BLOUNT1.htm#Thomas BLOUNT (Sir)2
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