Margaret Blount

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Margaret Blount (Seymour)

Also Known As: "Margaret Blount"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wolf Hall, Wiltshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: Wales (United Kingdom)
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Daughter of Sir John Seymour, of Wolfhall and Lady Isabel Seymour
Wife of Edward Blount, of Mangotsfield
Mother of Sir Simon Blount; Elizabeth Blount and Margaret Blount
Sister of John Seymour, Sheriff of Wiltshire; Humphrey Seymour and Isabel Seymour

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About Margaret Blount

  • Margaret Seymour
  • F, #26610, b. circa 1428
  • Father Sir John Seymour, Sheriff of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Herefordshire, & Somersetshire, Burgess for Ludgershall, Constable of Farnham Castle b. c 1403, d. 20 Dec 1464
  • Mother Isabel William b. c 1405, d. 14 Apr 1485
  • Margaret Seymour was born circa 1428 at of Bitton, Gloucestershire, England. She married Edward Blount, son of John Blount and Willelma (Willona) (Alicia) Abarle, circa 1449 at of Bitton, Gloucestershire, England.
  • Family Edward Blount b. 1428, d. 10 Apr 1468
  • Children
    • Sir Simon Blount+1,2 b. c 1450, d. 1477
    • Margaret Blount+ b. c 1458
  • Citations
  • 1.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
  • 2.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. VII, p. 17.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p886.htm#i...
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  • Sir John Seymour (c. 1395, c. 1400 or 1402 – 20 December 1464) of Wulfhall in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, and of Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset, was an English knight and member of parliament.
  • He was the son of Roger Seymour (born Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset, c. 1367-1370, died 1420) by his marriage to Maud Esturney or Esturmi, daughter of Sir William Esturney or Esturmi, Speaker of the House of Commons, paternal grandson of Sir William Seymour (Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset, c. 1342 – 25 August 1391, brother of Lettice Seymour (born Rogaid, Glamorgan, c. 1343), wife of Gilbert Gamage and mother of Sir William Gamage) and wife Margaret de Brookbury or Brockbury, and great-grandson of Sir Roger St. Maur or Seymour, Kt. (Even Swindon, Wiltshire, 1314 - bef. 1361) and wife Cicely or Cecily de Beauchamp (c. 1321 – 7 June 1394). Cecily de Beauchamp inherited the manors of Hatch Beauchamp, Shepton Beauchamp, Murifield and one third of the manor of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, the manors of Boultbery and Haberton, Devon, of Dorton, Buckinghamshire, and of Little Haw, Suffolk, and was a daughter of Sir John de Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp, (of Somerset) and wife Margaret St John, and married secondly on 14 September 1368 Sir Gilbert Turberville of Coity, Glamorgan.[1][2]
  • He was elected Member of Parliament for Ludgershall in 1422 and Knight of the Shire for Wiltshire in 1435, 1439, and 1445[3] He was also High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1431-1432, having previously served as High Sheriff of Hampshire.[4]
  • A tenement in Redcliffe Street, Bristol, was held by Sir John Seymour, Knight, in 1454, and by the Lady de Seymour in 1469.[5]
  • He married on 20 or 30 July 1424 Isabel William or Williams (died 14 April 1486), daughter of Mark William, a merchant and Mayor of Bristol,[6] in some sources given as William Mac William or Williams of Gloucestershire,[7] and had two children:
    • John Seymour (1425–1463)
    • Margaret Seymour (born c. 1428), married Edmund (Edward) Blount
  • As his son predeceased him, Seymour was succeeded in his estates by his grandson, another John Seymour.
  • After her husband's death in 1464, Isabel took vows of chastity.[8]
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seymour_%28died_1464%29
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Margaret Blount's Timeline

1428
1428
Wolf Hall, Wiltshire, England (United Kingdom)
1448
1448
of Bitton, , Gloucestershire, England
1460
1460
Bitton, South Gloucestershire, England
1465
1465
Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, England (United Kingdom)
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Wales (United Kingdom)