Humphrey Blount

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Grave of Sir Humphrey Blount and wife Elizabeth in St. John the Baptist Church, Kinlet
Grave of Sir Humphrey Blount and wife Elizabeth in St. John the Baptist Church, Kinlet

Sir Humphrey Blount of Kinlet (* around 1422, † 1477 ) was an English knight .

Life

He was a son of Sir John Blount of Dodington and Alice, daughter of Kynard Delabere. He was a nephew of Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy and a grandson of John Blount of Sodington († 1425).

He was the squire of Kinlet at Bridgnorth in Shropshire .

He was High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1461, 1466/67 and 1474 . During the Wars of the Roses fought Sir Humphrey for the House of York during the Battle of Ludlow (1459), in Towton (1461) and at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471), where he of King Edward IV. The accolade as a Knight Bachelor received.

Sir Humphrey died in 1477 and is buried in St. John the Baptist Church in Kinlet.

Marriage and offspring

Sir Humphrey was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Winnington.

They had the following children:

  • Thomas (Sir) ⚭ Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Croft
  • John
  • William
  • Eleanor ⚭ Humphrey Cotes
  • Margaret ⚭ Thomas Otteley
  • Mary ⚭ Robert Pigott

literature

  • J. Bernhard Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume I, Colburn & Co, London 1852, p. 268.
  • FL Weis, WL Sheppard, WR Beall, KE Beall: Ancestral Roots of certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700. Genealogical Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-8063-1752-3 , p. 250.
  • Fred W. Kittermaster: Shropshire Arms and Lineages. William MacIntosh, London 1869, p. 9.
  • A History of Shrewsbury. Volume I, Harding, Lepard & Co., London 1825, p. 214.
  • British Archaeological Association: Journal of the British Archaeological Association. Volume 24, 1868, p. 203.
  • Nicholas Harris Nicolas: Testamenta Vetusta. Volume II, Nicols & Son, London 1826, p. 386.
  • John Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume III, Henry Colburn, London 1836, p. 199.
  • Edward Edwards: Parliamentary Elections of the Borough of Shrewsbury from 1283-1859. Shrewsbury 1859, p. 8.
  • Beverly A. Murphy: Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's lost Son. History Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7524-6889-1 , pp. 11/12.
  • Elizabeth Norton: Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII. Amberley Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4456-0802-0 .
  • William A. Shaw: Knights of England: A Complete Record from Earliest Time to Present. Genealogical Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0-8063-0443-X , p. 15.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BLOUNT, John II (aft. 1345-1425), of Sodington, Worcs. at History of Parliament Online
  2. ↑ Beverly A. Murphy: Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's lost Son. History Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7524-6889-1 , p. 11.
  3. ↑ Richard III. Foundation Inc. ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.richard111.com
  4. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Blount, Humphrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blount of Kinlet, Sir Humphrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1477