Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy

• Preferred Name: Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}
  
• Alternate Name: Walter Blount Baron
  
• Gender: M
  
• Alternate+Birth: in Barton Blount, Derbyshire, England at LATI: N2.9123 LONG: E1.688 with note: Description: 1420 Sir Walter Blount/ 1st Baron Mountjoy, Lord High Treasurer in the Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
  
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• Alternate+Birth: 1414 in Lincolnshire, England with note: Grisby Manor, merged duplicate Sir Walter Blount 9M64-H6T
  
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• Alternate+death+place: 1 AUG 1474 in Ross, Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.7139 LONG: E1.1015 with note: standard place in 2 other counties; merged duplicate Sir Walter Blount 9M64-H6T
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: , 1st Baron Mountjoy, Treasurer of England
  
• Occupation: in Lord High Treasurer of England
  
• Death: 1 AUG 1474 in Grey Friar's, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.5167 LONG: E0.1667
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir Walter Blount Lord High Treasurer of England
  
• FSID: LH1F-1XN
  
• Birth: 1 FEB 1420 in Barton Blount, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.9123 LONG: E1.688 with note: Standard
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1st Baron Mountjoy
  
• Burial: 1474 in London, City of London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.51 LONG: E0.12
  
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  === Life Sketch ===
  About Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy
  Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy
  Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy KG (c. 1416 – 1 August 1474) was an English politician.
  Walter Blount was born about 1416, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Blount (1378–1456) and Margery Gresley and grandson of Sir Walter Blount.
  Walter Blount I, by Wikipedia
  He was made Steward of the High Peak in Derbyshire and became a bitter rival of the local Vernon and Longford families, replacing the Vernons in parliament as the near permanent Knight of the Shire (1446–1448, 1450–1468) for Derbyshire. He succeeded his father, Sir Thomas Blount, as Treasurer of Calais in 1460, becoming governor a year later as a reward for service rendered to King Edward IV at the Battle of Towton. Edward conferred on him in 1467 rich estates in Devon forfeited by the Earl of Devon; and in 1465 Blount was made lord high treasurer and created Baron Mountjoy. This creation is noteworthy as one of the earliest examples of a baronial title not being of a territorial character; nor the title of a dignity already existing. Blount's great-grandfather had married Isolda, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas de Mountjoy, and the title was probably chosen to commemorate this alliance.[1]
  
  He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1472.
  
  On his death on 1 August 1474 in Greyfriars, London his grandson Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy inherited his title. His eldest son (and Edward's father) Sir William Blount had been killed at the Battle of Barnet in 1471.
  
  Mountjoy married firstly Helena Byron, the daughter of Sir John Byron of Clayton, Lancashire,[2] by whom he had four sons and two daughters.
  
  William Blount, eldest son and heir, who died in 1471 of wounds received at the Battle of Barnet.[2]
  John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy, second son.
  James Blount, third son.
  Edward Blount.
  Anne Blount.
  Elizabeth Blount.
  By November 1467 Mountjoy married secondly Anne (née Neville), widow of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d.1460), and daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland.[2]
  
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  Sir Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, Lord High Treasurer1,2,3,4,5,6,7
  M, #48675, b. circa 1420, d. 1 August 1474
  Father Sir Thomas Blount, Sheriff of Derbyshire, Treasurer of Normandy8,4,7 b. c 1378, d. 1456
  Mother Margaret de Gresley8,4,7 b. c 1392, d. a 1430
  Sir Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, Lord High Treasurer was born circa 1420 at of Appletree, Derbyshire, England.8,4,7 He married Ellen Byron, daughter of Sir John Byron and Margaret Booth, circa 1442.9,2,5 Sir Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, Lord High Treasurer married Anne II Neville, daughter of Sir Ralph Neville, 1st Earl Westmoreland, 4th Baron Neville and Joan Beaufort, before 25 November 1467; No issue.9,1,3,4,6,7 Sir Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, Lord High Treasurer left a will on 8 July 1474.4,7 He died on 1 August 1474; Buried in the Chapel of the Apostles, Church of the Grey Friars, London.9,1,4,7 His estate was probated on 10 February 1475.4,7
  Family 1 Ellen Byron b. c 1416, d. b 1467
  Children
  Sir William Blount, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire+9,10,2,5 b. c 1443, d. 14 Apr 1471
  Sir John Blount, 3rd Lord Mountjoy+ b. c 1450, d. 12 Oct 1485
  Family 2 Anne II Neville d. 20 Sep 1480
  Citations
  [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 674.
  [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 102-103.
  [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 249.
  [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 77-78.
  [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 484-485.
  [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 236.
  [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 15-16.
  [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 334.
  [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 336.
  [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 282.
  From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1619.htm#i48675
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  Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy1
  M, #107424, b. circa 1420, d. 1 August 1474
  Last Edited=2 Feb 2013
  Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy was born circa 1420.1 He was the son of Thomas Blount and Margaret Gresley.2 He married, firstly, Helena Byron, daughter of John Byron and Margery Booth, before 1443. He married, secondly, Lady Anne Neville, daughter of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Lady Joan de Beaufort, before 25 November 1467.3 He died on 1 August 1474.3
  He gained the title of 1st Lord Mountjoy.1 He lived at Thurveston, Derbyshire, England.
  Children of Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy and Helena Byron
  Charles Blount
  William Blount+ d. 14 Apr 1471
  John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy+4 d. 1485
  Citations
  [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 109. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
  [S1916] Tim Boyle, "re: Boyle Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 September 2006. Hereinafter cited as "re: Boyle Family."
  [S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 17. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
  [S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 55. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.
  From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10743.htm#i107424
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  Walter BLOUNT (1º B Mountjoy)
  Born: ABT 1416, Rock, Worcester, England /1420, Barton Blount, Derbyshire, England
  Died: 1 Aug 1474
  Buried: 1 Aug 1474, Grey Friars, London, Middlesex, England
  Notes: Knight of the Garter. Lord High Treasurer. Fought for Edward IV at the battle of Towton.
  Father: Thomas BLOUNT (Sir)
  Mother: Margery GRESLEY
  Married 1: Helena (Ellen) BYRON (b. ABT 1416)
  Children:
  1. William BLOUNT (Sir Knight)
  2. James BLOUNT (Sir Knight)
  3. John BLOUNT (3° B. Mountjoy)
  4. Edward BLOUNT
  5. Anne BLOUNT
  6. Elizabeth BLOUNT
  Married 2: Anne NEVILLE (D. Buckingham) 25 Nov 1467, Raby, Durham, England
  From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BLOUNT1.htm#Walter BLOUNT (1° B. Mountjoy)
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  Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 05
  Blount, Walter (d.1474) by Sidney Lee
  BLOUNT, WALTER, first Baron Montjoy or Mountjoy (d. 1474), lord high treasurer of England, eldest son of Sir Thomas Blount and grandson of Sir Walter Blount [q. v.], became treasurer of Calais in 1460, apparently in immediate succession to his father; fought bravely with the Yorkists at the decisive battle of Towton (29 March 1461), and was rewarded first by knighthood and afterwards by promotion to the governorship of Calais. In October 1461 he was besieging with a very large force ‘the Castell of Hampnes by side Cales,’ which apparently held out for Henry VI. In 1465 he was nominated lord high treasurer of England, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Montjoy or Mountjoy, on 20 June of the same year. In 1467 he was given the Devonshire estates forfeited to the crown by the attainder of Thomas Courtenay, earl of Devonshire, in 1461. He was directed in 1468 to accompany the king in a projected expedition to aid the Duke of Brittany against Louis XI. In the following year Mountjoy accompanied Edward IV on his public entry into London after his release from the temporary confinement to which Warwick and Clarence had subjected him. He was created a knight of the Garter on 23 April 1472.
  Lord Mountjoy died late in 1474, and was buried in the church of Grey Friars, London. His piety was as far-famed as his bravery. On 17 Sept. 1469 he and his wife were received into the fraternity of the chapter of the Holy Trinity priory at Canterbury. By his will, dated 8 July 1474, he largely increased the endowment of the hospital of St. Leonards, near Alkmonton, Derbyshire, originally founded by his grandmother, Donna Sancha de Ayála [see under Blount, Sir Walter, (d. 1403)], and established a chapel in the same village. He was twice married: (1) to Helena, daughter of Sir John Byron of Clayton, Lancashire, and (2), in 1467, to Ann, widow of Humphrey Stafford, duke of Buckingham, and daughter of Ralph Nevill, earl of Westmorland, by Joan Beaufort, only daughter of Catherine Swynford and John of Gaunt. By his second wife, who died in 1479, he had no issue. In 1470 Lord Mountjoy was appointed custodian of the estates of the dukedom of Buckingham during the minority of his stepson Henry Stafford, the heir. By his first marriage he had three sons. William, the eldest, was killed while fighting with Edward IV at Barnet in 1471, and was buried with his father at Grey Friars. William's son Edward succeeded his grandfather as the second Baron Mountjoy in 1474, but died in the following year, and was buried in the Grey Friars' church in London. The second son, Sir John, succeeded his nephew Edward as third Baron Mountjoy in 1475; was appointed captain of Guisnes and Hammes near Calais in 1477; was continued in the office by Richard III in 1483; died in 1485, bequeathing his body to the Grey Friars' church; and was succeeded in his title by his son William [q. v.] The third son, Sir James, became lieutenant of Hammes in 1476; joined in offering the castle of Hammes to Henry, earl of Richmond, in 1484–5; was with Henry VII on his landing at Milford Haven in 1485; was knighted there; became a knight banneret in 1487; and died in 1493 (cf. Polydore Vergil, Camd. Soc. 208, 212).
  [Sir Alexander Croke's Genealogical History of the Croke Family, surnamed Le Blount, ii. 197–204; Dugdale's Baronage; Rymer's Fœdera, xi. 504, 578, 630, 656–7, 767; Stow's Survey, ed. Strype, bk. iii. 133; Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, ii. 5, 52, 169, 389; Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. 7, iv. 523, 524.]
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  Walter Blount was born about 1416, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Blount (1378–1456) and Margery Gresley and grandson of Sir Walter Blount.
  
  He was made Steward of the High Peak in Derbyshire and became
  
  === ! WALTER BLOUNT III, KNIGHT, HE WAS BORN ===
  ! WALTER BLOUNT III, KNIGHT, HE WAS BORN ABOUT 1420, "IN THE HUNDRED OF APPLETREE", DERBY, PROBABLY AT BARTON BLOUNT. HE WAS KNIGHT OF THE SHIRE FOR DERBY 1447 AND LATER TO 1460. ON JUNE 20 1465 HE WAS CREATED LORD MOUNTJOY. HE MARRIED AS HIS FIRST WIFE IN OR BEFORE 1442, ELLEN, DAUGHTER OR SIR JOHN BRYON, OF CLAYTON, NEAR MANCHESTER. SHE WAS BURIED AT ELVASTON. HE DIED AUGUST 1, 1474 AND WAS BURIED IN THE CHAPEL OF THE APOSTLES IN THE CHURCH OF THE GREY FRIARS, LONDON. SOURCE - THE COMPLETE PEERAGE VOL IX PAGE 329-337; COLONIAL FAMILIES OF LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT, BY HERBERT FURMAN SEVERSMITH PAGE 2, 193-2, 248; AR PAGE 69-70;SOURCE AR PAGE 69; ECHYNGHAM OF ECHYNGHAM, BY SPENCER HALL, PAGE 1-15;
  
  === !Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Cen ===
  !Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the North american Colonies before 1701 by David Faris First Edition
  
  === !MAR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Tur ===
  !MAR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
  
  === OCCUPATION: Treasurer of England NSFX: S ===
  OCCUPATION: Treasurer of England NSFX: Sir Kt of the Garter/Baron Mountjoy/Trea. Eng Title: Sir Kt of the Garter/Baron Mountjoy/Trea. Eng Sources: Repository: Name: Family History Library Salt Lake City, UT 84150 Title: Ancestral Roots Of Sixty Colonists Who Came To New England Between 1623 And 1650 Author: Weis, Frederick Lewis Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1992 Abbrev: Ancestral Roots Of Sixty Colonists Who Came To New England Between 1623 And 1650
  
  === Lord High Treasurer of England. Became ===
  Lord High Treasurer of England. Became Treasurer of Calais in 1460 and fought for the Yorkist at Towton on 29 Mar 1461 and was rewarded with a knighthood and later Governorship of Calais. Was promoted to Treasurer and Baron in 1465. In 1467 was given Devonshire estates forfeited by Thomas Courtenay. In 1468 he accompanied the Duke of Brittany against Louis XI. In 1469 he accompanied Edward IV on his entry into London. He was created a Knight of the Garter in 1472.
  
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  === GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Lord High Tre ===
  
  GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Lord High Treasurer
  
  BIRTH: Also shown as Born 1416

• m. 25 NOV 1467

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