Sir John Blount, Kt., MP

Do not confuse with Sir John LE Blount, nominal 3rd Lord Blount and Constable of the Tower of London.

According to History of Parliament Online http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/bl..., he had two sons named John. The first, by Juliana Foulhurst, predeceased him leaving a son John who was 14 when his grandfather died (thus born c. 1410-1411). The other John, by Isabel Cornwall, was [at least] 30 and died in 1443 leaving a son Humphrey, who subsequently inherited the extensive Cornwall estates in Shropshire and elsewhere.

• BLOUNT, John II (aft.1345-1425), of Sodington, Worcs.
• Family and Education
• b. aft. 1345, 2nd s. and event. h. of Sir John Blount (d.1358) of Sodington, prob. by his 1st w. Iseult, da. and h. of Thomas Mountjoy of Derbys.; er bro. of Sir Walter*. m. (1) Juliana (?Foulhurst), 2s. d.v.p.; (2) c. Apr. 1383, Isabel, da. of Sir Brian Cornwall† of Kinlet, Salop by Maud, da. of Fulk, 1st Lord Strange of Blackmere, sis. of Sir John Cornwall*, 1s.; ?(3) Ellen. Kntd. bet. Sept. 1403.
• Offices Held
• Escheator, Worcs. 24 Oct. 1392-24 Nov. 1394, 29 Nov. 1402-12 Nov. 1403.
• J.p. Worcs. 18 June 1394-Feb. 1410.
• Alnager, Worcs. 30 Nov. 1395-Oct. 1397.
• Commr. of weirs, Worcs. June 1398; to collect an aid Dec. 1401; proclaim Henry IV’s intention to govern well May 1402; of array Sept. 1403; to raise royal loans June 1406; of inquiry June 1406 (concealments).
• Biography
• John was one of the sons of Sir John Blount, himself a younger son of Sir Walter Blount† of Rock, Worcestershire, and Joan, the heiress of the manor of Sodington. Among the more prominent members of the family, whose principal estates were at Belton in Rutland and Hampton Lovett in Worcestershire, had been Thomas, Lord Blount (d.1328), sometime steward of Edward II’s household, and John’s uncle, William, Lord Blount (d.1337); while the main line of the family ended in John’s lifetime at the death of Alice, the daughter and heiress of his grandfather’s eldest brother John, Lord Blount, and wife of Sir Richard Stury, one of the knights of Richard II’s chamber. The Blounts had established a tradition of service to the house of Lancaster: John’s grandfather had been of the Lancastrian party under Edward II, and his father had fought in Gascony under Henry, earl of Lancaster, who had granted him for life the manors of Passenham (Northamptonshire) and Tibberton (Gloucestershire). This connexion was long to continue, for John’s younger brother, Sir Walter, became one of John of Gaunt’s most trusted retainers, and his nephews, Sir John and Thomas Blount II*, were to have close associations with Gaunt’s son Thomas Beaufort, duke of Exeter.1
• When Blount’s father died in 1358 the heir was his eldest son Richard, but the latter did not long survive, soon leaving the inheritance to young John. By settlements made in 1356 John had already obtained lands in Balterley, Biddulph, Fenton and Ramshorn, Staffordshire, from his aunt Margery (widow of William, Lord Blount and at that time the wife of Sir John Crophull of Nottinghamshire), and in June 1358 the King, respiting his homage for these lands until he should come of age, granted him seisin. The rest of his substantial paternal inheritance (which, besides Sodington, included the manors of Timberlake and Mamble and several other properties in Worcestershire) came to him only after he attained his majority. In 1364 he was evidently a ward of Nicholas Fitzherbert, for in that year Eleanor, countess of Arundel (daughter of Earl Henry of Lancaster) acknowledged receipt of 11 marks from Fitzherbert as ‘the guardian of the lands of my dear cousin Janckin Blount’. Ten years later Blount, no longer a minor, reached an agreement with his brother Walter that the latter should have all the Mountjoy lands in Derbyshire falling to them on the death of their mother, he himself to have other family properties in Staffordshire and Worcestershire in lieu; and accordingly, in 1381, Walter relinquished to him all claim to lands in Denstone, Elvaston, Quixhill and Waterfall.2
• The importance of Blount’s second marriage, to Isabel, the daughter of a prominent Shropshire knight, Sir Brian Cornwall, is suggested by the terms of their marriage agreement made in 1383. In this, Blount promised to pay Cornwall the sum of 200 marks should he fail to obtain the royal licence necessary for the entail of his lands in Staffordshire on himself and Isabel and their issue. However, he did manage to procure the licence, even though it took him a year. In the 1390s Blount held office in Worcestershire for two years as escheator and two more as alnager, and he served on the local bench from 1394 right up until the deposition of Richard II. He may have owed these local appointments to his association with Sir John Russell* of Strensham, the master of the King’s horse, and one of the select company of knights of the chamber. This connexion dated from before the Parliament of 1393, in which Russell brought bills against Sir Nicholas Lilling*, the trusted councillor of Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, alleging against him several crimes, among them the kidnapping and holding hostage in Wales of Blount’s son and his priest in order to obtain the release of three of Warwick’s bondmen whom Blount had taken to the duke of Lancaster’s castle at Tutbury (where, incidentally, his brother Sir Walter was constable). The incident may well have resulted from a personal quarrel between Warwick and Lancaster, which their followers had enthusiastically pursued in the localities. In November 1397 Blount witnessed a transaction on Russell’s behalf relating (among other things) to the manor of Earl’s Croome, which Russell had obtained from the Crown after it had been forfeited by Warwick. Despite this apparent friendship with one of Richard II’s most influential councillors, in June 1398 Blount saw fit to purchase a royal pardon.3
• Both John and his brother Sir Walter sat in the assembly of estates which deposed Richard II and acclaimed the accession of Henry IV, and in the subsequent Parliament. There can be little doubt where their sympathies lay, for Sir Walter had always been closely attached to the new King’s father, John of Gaunt, and was still actively engaged in the executorship of his will. John’s service on the Worcestershire bench continued without interruption, and he officiated for another term as escheator in 1402-3. During this term his brother fell at the battle of Shrewsbury, and he himself may well have been involved in military action, since he was knighted before September 1403, when he was commissioned to array the men of Worcestershire and select the best soldiers for duty with the King’s army about to march into Wales. He was returned to Parliament for the second time in the following year. Family affairs, notably the administration of his late brother’s will, now took up much of his attention, and after 1410 he ceased to participate in local government. In 1415 when Alice Stury died Blount was named as her next heir in blood, but in fact he inherited none of her substantial estates, for entails made in 1393 ensured their descent to his nephew and namesake, and then, after the latter’s death in 1418, to a younger nephew, Thomas II.4
• Blount died on 4 Apr. 1425. His lands in Worcestershire were left in trust to his 14-year-old grandson John (the child of his son John by his first wife), while those in Staffordshire passed to another son named John (aged 30), the issue of his marriage to Isabel Cornwall. (The latter John Blount died in 1443 leaving a son Humphrey, who subsequently inherited the extensive Cornwall estates in Shropshire and elsewhere.)5
• Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
• Author: L. S. Woodger
• Notes
• He has been frequently confused (as for example in Trans. Worcs. Arch. Soc. xl. 50, 63), with his nephew Sir John Blount, one of the most outstanding military captains of his day. It was the nephew who received substantial annuities from Henry IV, and held the offices of constable of Tutbury castle (1408-d.), of Newcastle-under-Lyme and of Monmouth (1409-12). This nephew’s distinguished military career included service as lieutenant to the admiral, Thomas Beaufort, earl of Dorset, in 1410, the defeat and capture of the marshal of France in Guienne in 1412, and, in 1415, participation in the siege of Harfleur, where he subsequently served as Beaufort’s lieutenant. It culminated with his nomination as KG in 1417 and his death in single combat before the gates of Rouen in August 1418: Somerville, Duchy, i. 541, 546, 550, 647; J.H. Wylie, Hen. V, iii. 133; CP, ix. 329-35.
• 1. CP, ii. 195-6 (where the account of the family is confused); ix. 329-35; T.R. Nash, Worcs. ii. 162a; A. Croke, Fam. Croke, ii. 125-42.
• 2. CIPM, x. 431; CPR, 1354-8, p. 414; CCR, 1354-60, pp. 456-7; VCH Worcs. iv. 239, 286; Croke, 125-42.
• 3. Croke, 139-40; CPR, 1381-5, pp. 388-9; CCR, 1396-9, p. 227; C67/30 m. 8.
• 4. CPR, 1401-5, p. 286; 1405-8, p. 326; 1422-9, p. 239; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xvi. 50; C138/8/27; CP25(1)/289/56/250; K.B. McFarlane, Lancastrian Kings, 163, 174. The descent of the Blount estates after the death of Alice Stury is confused in VCH Worcs. iii. 154-6 and Croke, i. 124-6.
• 5. C139/14/17, 109/32; CFR, xv. 101; Croke, ii. 142, 156-
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• History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters By Leon C. Hills, Leon Clark Hills Pg.130
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• Gen.1 John Fitz Roger, b. abt. 1335 Eng. m. 1385/6 Elizabeth, b. 1330, dau. of Sir Symon de Furneaux of Ashington, wid. of Sir John Blount. She was a very wealthy heiress, sole heir of her father and of the 9th gen. in direct line from Odo de Fornell b. abt. 1040 in Normandy who came to Eng. with the Conqueror.
• Gen.2 Sir John Fitz Roger, Knt. b. abt. 1386/7.
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• Sir John Blount1
• M, #165264, d. 1423
• Last Edited=20 Oct 2005
• Sir John Blount was the son of Sir John Blount and Isolda Mountjoy.1 He married, firstly, Juliana Foulhurst.1 He married, secondly, Isabel Cornwall, daughter of Sir Bryan Cornwall.2 He married, thirdly, Helen (?).2 He died in 1423.1
• He lived at Sodington, Worcestershire, England.1
• He was ancestor of the Blounts of Kinlet, by his second wife.2
• Child of Sir John Blount and Juliana Foulhurst
  • 1.unknown son Blount+2 d. b 1423
• Citations
• 1.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 405. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• 2.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 406.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p16527.htm#i165264
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• John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)
• Born: 1343, Sodington, Worcestershire, England
• Died: 1424
• Notes: sold Mountjoy estate to his brother Walter.
• Father: John BLOUNT (Sir)
• Mother: Isolda De MOUNTJOY
• Married 1: Juliana FOWLESHURST (b. ABT 1353 - d. BEF 1382) ABT 1374, Sodington, Worcester, England
• Children:
  • 1. John BLOUNT
• Married 2: Isabella De CORNWALL (dau. of Bryan De Cornwall and Maud Le Strange) 1382, Mountjoy Estates, England
• Children:
  • 2. John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)
  • 3. Roger BLOUNT
• Married 3: Helen (Ellen) ? 1423
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BLOUNT1.htm#John BLOUNT (Sir Knight)1
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• Sir John Blount1
• M, #33323, b. 1343, d. 1424
• Father John le Blount b. 1298, d. 1358
• Mother Isolda de Mountjoy b. c 1307, d. 1347
• Sir John Blount married Juliana Foulhurst. Sir John Blount was born in 1343 at of Sodington, Warwickshire, England. He married Elizabeth de Furneaux, daughter of Sir Symon de Furneaux and Alice de Umfraville, circa 1370 at of Sodington, Worcestershire, England. Sir John Blount married Isabel (Isabella) Cornwall, daughter of Brian de Cornwall, Sheriff of Shropshire and Maud le Strange, circa 1384 at of Staffordshire, England. Sir John Blount died in 1424 at England.
• Family 1 Juliana Foulhurst d. b 1384
• Child
  • John "the Elder" Blount+2 b. c 1377, d. b 1424
• Family 2 Elizabeth de Furneaux b. c 1340
• Child
  • Alice Blount+ b. c 1383, d. 1421
• Family 3 Isabel (Isabella) Cornwall b. c 1348
• Children
  • Sir John II Blount+ b. c 1385, d. bt 1442 - 1443
  • (Miss) Blount+3 b. c 1387
• Citations
• 1.[S10334] Unknown author, Burke's Commoners, Vol. I, p. 355; Stemmata Robertson, p. 203.
• 2.[S11588] Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 29.
• 3.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1110.htm#...
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• A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct ... By Sir Bernard Burke
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• SIR JOHN LE BLOUNT, then thirty-nine years of age, who was in the service of the Earl of Lancaster, and had obtained from that nobleman a grant for life of the manor of Passingham, co. Northampton. He had also lands from the earl in Holland and Duffield, co Derby, and Tiberton, in Gloucestershire. he had two wives, 1st ISOLDA, dau. and heir of Sir Thomas de Mountjoy, by whom he acquired a large accession of estates, and had issue,
  • JOHN (Sir), who m. twice, 1st, Juliana, dau. of __ Foulhurst, and 2ndly, Isabella, dau. and heir of Sir Bryan Cornwall, of Kinlet, co. Salop, whose heir-general is WILLIAM LACON CHILDE, Esq., of Kinlet. By his 1st wife, Juliana, Sir John had a son,
    • JOHN BLOUNT, of Sodington, ancestor of the BLOUNTS, Baronets of Sodington.
  • Walter, d.s.p.
• Sir John Blount's 2nd wife was Eleanor, 2nd dau. of John Beauchamp, of Hache, co Somerset, and widow of John Meriet, of Meriet, in the same shire. By this lady he left at his decease, 32nd HENRY III. (1358), a son, the heroic
• SIR WALTER BLOUNT, so celebrated for his martial prowess in
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• the warlike times of EDWARD III., RICHARD II., and HENRY IV., and immortalized by the muse of Shakespeare for his devotion, even unto death, to King HENRY. Sir Walter fell at the battle of Shrewsbury, 22 June, 1403, wherein, being standard bearer, he was arrayed in the same armour as his royal master, and was slain, according to the poet, in single combat, by the Earl of Douglas, who had supposed he was contending with the king himself.
• In 1367 we find Sir Walter accompanying the BLACK PRINCE and his brother, the DUKE OF LANCASTER (John of Gaunt), .... etc. In 1398 the duke granted 100 marks a-year to Sir Walter for the good services which had been rendered to him by the knight and his wife, the Lady Sancia. The Lady Sancia's maiden designation was DONNA SANCHA DE AYALA; .... etc.
• In 1374, Sir Walter's half-brother, Sir John Blount, of Sodington, conveyed to him numerous manors, which he had inherited from his mother, Isolda, heiress of the Mountjoy family. In 1381 he became proprietor, by purchase, of the large estates of the BAKEPULS family, in cos. Derby, Stafford, Leicester, and Hertford. In 1385 he obtained a charter for a fair and free warren in his demesne lands at Barton, and other manors in Derbyshire. In 1399 he was ranger of Needwood Forest and knight of the shire for co. Derby. By his wife, Donna Sancha, who survived him, and lived until 1418, he left issue, ....
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