William Blount (nobleman)

William Blount (* around 1442; † April 14, 1471 ) was an English nobleman .

Life

William Blount was the eldest son of Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy and Eleanor, daughter of Sir John Byron.

He was sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in 1469/70 .

During the Wars of the Roses he fought for the House of York and Edward IV at the Battle of Barnet on April 14, 1471. In the battle, he suffered serious injuries to which he eventually died. He was buried in the Church of the Franciscan Monastery (Gray Friars) in London .

Since William died before his father, the title of Baron Mountjoy passed to his son Edward.

Marriage and offspring

He was married to Margaret, daughter of Thomas Echingham. They had the following children:

• John
• Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy
• Elizabeth ⚭ Andrew, Lord Windsor
• Anne ⚭ 1) Sir Thomas Oxenbridge; ⚭ 2) Sir David Owen (Tudor), an illegitimate son of Owen Tudor

literature

• Plantagenet Ancestry. A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition. Douglas Richardson 2011, ISBN 978-1-461-04513-7 , pp. 677 f.
• TCBanks: Baronia Anglica Concentrata. Volume 1, William Harris, London 1844, pp. 127/199
• J.Bernhard Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 1, Colburn and Co., London 1852, p. 737.
• George Fisher: A Genealogical Companion and Key to the History of England. Simpkin & Marshall, London 1832, p. 613.
• FL Weis, WL Sheppard, WR Beall: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215. Genealogical Publishing 1999, ISBN 978-0-806-31609-3 , p. 106.
• Maves E. Mate: Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Death. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. 1998, ISBN 978-0-851-15534-0 , p. 160.
• Nigel Saul: For Honor and Fame. Chivalry in England 1066-1500. , Random House 2011, ISBN 978-1-409-02754-6 , p. 351.
• Charles H. Browning: Americans of Royal Descent. Genealogical Publishing Com. 1911, ISBN 978-0-806-30054-2 , pp. 131/181/412.
• John Sadler: The Red Rose and The White. The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487. Routledge 2014, ISBN 978-1-317-90518-9 , p. 198.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Plantagenet Ancestry. A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition. Douglas Richardson 2011, ISBN 978-1-461-04513-7 , pp. 677 f.
2. ↑ www.british-history.ac.uk/ - Gray Friars London - Register of Burials -
3. ^ TC Banks: Baronia Anglica Concentrata. Volume 1, William Harris, London 1844, pp. 127/199.
4. ^ J. Bernhard Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 1, Colburn and Co., London 1852, p. 737.