Is your surname Blount?

Research the Blount family

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

Helena Blount (Byron)

Also Known As: "Ellen Byron"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bardford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: 1468 (51-52)
Grey Friars, London, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: City of London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir John Byron, Kt. and Margery Byron
Wife of Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy
Mother of Sir William Blount; John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy; Sir James Blount; Edward Blount; Anne Blount and 1 other
Sister of Elizabeth Ashton; Mary Byron; Richard Byron; Ralph Byron; Margaret Berkeley and 3 others

Managed by: Private User
Last Updated:

About Helena Blount

  • Helena Byron
  • F, #19724, b. 1416
  • Last Edited=12 Nov 2006
  • Helena Byron was born in 1416.1 She was the daughter of John Byron and Margery Booth.1 She married Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, son of Thomas Blount and Margaret Gresley, before 1443.
  • Her married name became Blount.
  • Children of Helena Byron and Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy
    • Charles Blount
    • William Blount+ b. b 1447, d. 14 Apr 14711
  • Citations
  • [S1916] Tim Boyle, "re: Boyle Family," e-mail message from <e-mail address> (unknown address) to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 September 2006. Hereinafter cited as "re: Boyle Family".
  • From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1973.htm#i19724
  • _________________
  • Ellen Byron1,2
  • F, b. circa 1416, d. before 1467
  • Father Sir John Byron2 b. 1387, d. 1442
  • Mother Margaret Booth b. c 1380, d. c 1460
  • Ellen Byron was born circa 1416 at of Clayton, Manchester, Lancashire, England.1 She married Sir Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, son of Sir Thomas Blount and Margaret de Gresley, circa 1442.1,2 Ellen Byron died before 1467; Buried at Elvaston.1
  • Family Sir Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy b. c 1422, d. 1 Aug 1474
  • Children
    • Sir William Blount, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire+1,3,2 b. c 1443, d. 14 Apr 1471
    • Sir John Blount, 3rd Lord Mountjoy+ b. c 1450, d. 12 Oct 1485
  • Citations
  • 1.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 336.
  • 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 102-103.
  • 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 282.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1572.htm#...
  • _______________
  • A History and Genealogy of the Families of Bayard, Houstoun of Georgia: And ... (1919)
  • https://archive.org/details/ahistoryandgene02bullgoog
  • https://archive.org/stream/ahistoryandgene02bullgoog#page/n64/mode/1up
  • Pg.53
    • BYRON
  • The ancestor1 of this ancient line was Ralph du Burum, Burun, Biron, or Byron, of Horstan Castle, living in 1086, who was the possessor of several Lordships, and from whom Lord Byron, the famous poet, descends. His son Hugh du Burun, Lord of Horstan Castle, County Derby, had a son Hugh du Burun, Lord of Horstan Castle, temp. Henry II., and he had a son, Sir Roger or Ralph de Burun, living 1216, who married Nicola de Verdon, daughter of Roland de Verdon, and had Robert de Byron (the name appears to have at this time been changed to Byron), who married Cecelia Clayton, an heiress, daughter of Theirass, son of Richard Clayton of Clayton, County Lancaster. By this marriage Robert de Byron had : Robert de Byron, Lord of Clayton, living 1189, who married Maud, living 1292, and had: John de Byron, Lord of Clayton, Governor of York, who obtained Rochdale by marriage. He was living 1295 ; married Jean or Joan, living 1300, heiress of Rochdale, stated to be the widow of Sir Robert Holland and daughter of Sir Baldwin Thias or Sir Baldwin Teutonicus or de Tyas, and had Sir John de Byron, Lord of Clayton, living 1318, who married Alice Banastre, cousin and heiress of Robert Banastre of Hyndelay, County Lancaster, and had : Sir Richard de Byron, M. P., Lord of Clayton and Codenay, living 1308-1348, died ante 1349, who by his second marriage, to Elizabeth, had Sir James Byron, died ante 1350 ; married Elizabeth Berwake, Barnake or Barnack2 and had :
  • I. Sir John Byron, knighted by Edward III., Siege of Calais.
  • II. Sir Richard Byron, married Joan de Colewick, second
  • https://archive.org/stream/ahistoryandgene02bullgoog#page/n65/mode/1up
  • Pg.54
  • daughter and co-heiress of William de Colewick of Colewick, Nottingham, who married Joan de Peehe, daughter of John de Peche and Alice Hayward, daughter of Sir William Hayward and Joan de Huntingfield, daughter of Sir Savir de Huntingfield.
  • By this marriage there was Sir John de Byron of Clayton, Member of Parliament 1428, who married Marjory, daughter of John Booth of Barton, son of John Booths by a daughter of Sir Henry Trafford of Trafford ; son of Sir Thomas Booth of Barton by Ellen, daughter of Thomas de Workesley of Workesley ; son of John Booth by Agnes Barton, daughter of Sir Gilbert de Barton ; son of William Booth, living 1275, by Sibil, daughter of Sir Ralph de Bereton ; son of Adam de Booth or Booths.
  • Sir John Byron of Clayton and Marjory Booth had issue:
    • 1. Richard Byron.
    • 2. Sir Nicholas Byron, married a daughter of Sir John Boteler of Beausay, and was ancestor of Lord Byron.
    • 3. Margaret Byron, married first, Sir William Atherton ; married second. Sir Maurice Berkeley. (She perhaps married third, Sir John de Assheton as his second wife).
    • 4. Elizabeth Byron, married Thomas Assheton.
    • 5. Jane Byron, married William Radclyffe.
    • 6. Catharine Byron, married William Brereton.
    • 7. Helena Byron, married ___
  • Of this marriage of Sir John Byron was a Margaret or Mary Byron who, according to authorities cited below, married Sir John de Assheton1 as his second wife. Sir John de Assheton's son by first marriage, Thomas Assheton, married Elizabeth Byron.
  • Note. — Sir John Byron had a daughter Margaret or Mary who, according to both Burke and Foster, married as his second wife Sir John de Assheton, as heretofore stated. Foster says daughter of John Byron, Esq., of Clayton ; Burke says Sir John of Clayton. Other authority places her as daughter of Sir John Byron by Alice Boteler, but it was the son Nicholas who married Alice Boteler. See Robertson et Durbin.
  • ____________________________
view all 15

Helena Blount's Timeline

1416
1416
Bardford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1442
1442
Rock, Worcestershire, England (United Kingdom)
1450
May 1, 1450
Probably Rock, Worcestershire, England, (Present UK)
1452
1452
Probably Barton Blount, Derbyshire, England
1454
1454
Of, Barton Blount, Derbyshire, England
1456
1456
1458
1458
Of, Barton Blount, Derbyshire, England
1468
1468
Age 52
Grey Friars, London, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
1931
June 6, 1931
Age 52
June 6, 1931
Age 52