Walter Blount

• Preferred Name: Walter Blount^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
  
• Alternate Name: Walter Blount
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• Birth: 1350 in Elwaston, Derbyshire, England
  
• Alternate+Burial: 1403 in Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.7139 LONG: E1.1015 with note: Description: St. Mary’s https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/blount-sir-walter-1403
  
• Fact: 1367 with note: Description: was sent by John Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster to Spain to aid Peter the Cruel, King of Castile
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• Occupation: Sheriff of Derbyshire
  
• Burial: 1403 in Newark-on-Trent, Newark and Sherwood District, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N3.077 LONG: E0.81
  
• Probate+granted: 1 AUG 1403 with note: https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhist02crok#page/189
  
• FSID: LBJ1-7RM
  
• Death: 21 JUL 1403 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England at LATI: N2.7079 LONG: E2.7544 with note: He died in the Battle of Shrewsbury
  
• Christening: in Barton, Co. Derby, England at LATI: N3.1105 LONG: E1.6205 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Sir Walter Blount (died 21 July 1403), was a soldier and supporter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. He later supported John's son and heir Henry Bolingbroke in his bid to become king Henry IV and in later battles against his enemies. At the Battle of Shrewsbury he served as the royal standard bearer, was mistaken for the king and killed in combat.
  
  He appears as a character in Shakespeare's play Henry IV, part 1, in which he epitomises selfless loyalty and chivalry.
  
  «b»Early life«/b»
  According to his biography in The History Of Parliament, Sir Walter Blount was the 3rd son of Sir John Blount of Sodington, by his 1st wife, Iseult Mountjoy.
  
  In 1367 Blount participated in Edward, the Black Prince's expedition to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of Leon and Castile. This expedition was successfully terminated by the Battle of Nájera in 1367. Blount returned to England. As a result of his role in the campaign, Blount married Sancha de Ayála, the daughter of Diego Gómez, who held high office in Toledo under the Castilian regime, by his wife, Inez Alfonso de Ayála, sister of Pero López de Ayala. Sancha came to England in 1371 as a lady-in-waiting to Constance, the elder daughter of Peter of Castile, whom John of Gaunt married in 1372.
  
  «b»Estate«/b»
  In 1374 Sir Walter Blount's brother John, who had succeeded his mother Iseult (Isolde) Mountjoy in the Mountjoy property, made over to Walter the Mountjoy estates in Derbyshire, and to them Walter added by purchase, in 1381, the great estates of the Bakepuiz family in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Hertfordshire.
  
  «b»Return to Castile«/b»
  Blount probably returned to Castile in 1386. Permission had been granted Blount in 1377 to proceed with Duke John of Gaunt to Castile in order to assert the duke's right by virtue of his marriage to the throne of Leon and Castile; but the expedition did not start till 1386. On 17 April 1393 he, with Henry Bowet and another, was appointed to negotiate a permanent peace with the king of Castile.
  
  In 1398 Duke John granted to Blount and his wife, with the king's approval, an annuity of 100 marks in consideration of their labours in his service. Blount was an executor of John of Gaunt, who died early in 1399, and received a small legacy.
  
  «b»Later career and death«/b»
  He represented Derbyshire in Henry IV's first parliament, which met on 6 Oct 1399. When the rebellion of the Percys broke out, Blount supported the King. At the Battle of Shrewsbury (21 July 1403) he was the king's standard-bearer. In the decisive struggle of the battle, the rebel leader Henry Percy attempted to break the royal army by a direct attack on the King. In the struggle Blount was killed by Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, one of the most powerful and feared noblemen of Scotland, and a privileged hostage in Percy's entourage, following his earlier capture at Homildon Hill. According to later chronicles, Blount was dressed in armour resembling that worn by Henry IV, and was mistaken by Douglas for the king.
  
  He was buried in the church St. Mary 'of Newark', Leicester. His widow Sancha survived him until 1418. In 1406 she founded the hospital of St. Leonards, situated between Alkmonton and Hungry-Bentley, Derbyshire.
  
  A good account of the life and career of Sir Walter Blount may be found in THE COMPLETE PEERAGE VOL. IX sub MOUNTJOY pp. 331-333.
  
  «b»Eulogised in Shakespeare's Henry IV«/b»
  Shakespeare gives Blount, whom he calls Sir Walter Blunt, a prominent place in the first part of his Henry IV, and represents both Hotspur and Henry IV as eulogising his military prowess and manly character. In the play he deliberately misidentifies himself as the King in order to draw the attack onto himself. Falstaff, finding his body, undercuts the eulogies by presenting his death as proof of the uselessness of "honour".
  
  «b»Descendants«/b»
  Sir Walter Blount's will, made 16 Dec 1401, named: his wife; sons John, Thomas, and James; and daughters Constantia and Anna Griffith.
  
  1.) Sir John Blount was at one time governor of Calais; was besieged in a castle of Aquitaine by a great French army, which he defeated with a small force (Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriæ, Rolls Ser., p. 437); was created knight of the Garter in 1413; and was present at the siege of Rouen in 1418: Sir John died without male issue.
  
  2.) Sir Thomas Blount was Treasurer of Calais during Henry VI's wars in France (Stevenson's Letters, &c., illustrating the wars in France temp. Henry VI, Rolls Ser., ii. passim), and founded a chantry at Newark in 1422 (at the expense of the Duke of Exeter) in memory of his father and mother. Sir Thomas was the father (by Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Gresley of Gresley, Derbyshire) of Sir Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy.
  
  3) James Blount was the ancestor of the Blounts of Grendon, Orleton, and other places in Herefordshire. (Croke, Vol. II, Book III, p. 196.)
  
  4.) Constantia (Constance) Blount married John de Sutton V of Dudley Castle, Staffordshire. They were the parents of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley.
  
  5.) Anna (Anne) Blount married Thomas Griffith of Wichenor in Staffordshire, England. (Croke, Vol. II, Book III, p. 196.)
  
  Early Life
  According to his biography in The History Of Parliament (online), Sir Walter Blount was the 3rd son of Sir John Blount of Sodington, by his 1st wife, Iseult Mountjoy.
  
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  Summary of his Life
  He was a Trained Knight and supporter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. He later supported John's son and heir Henry Bolingbroke in his bid to become king Henry IV and in later battles against his
  
  Life Story
  In 1367 he accompanied the Black Prince and John of Gaunt in their expedition to Spain to restore Don Pedro the Cruel to the throne of Leon and Castile. After the return of the expedition, which was s
  
  Death- Battle of Shrewsbury ((23 July 1403)) - Shakespeare
  Shakespeare gives Blount, whom he calls Sir Walter Blunt, a prominent place in the first part of his ‘Henry IV,’ and represents both Hotspur and Henry IV as eulogising his military prowess and manly c
  
  The Battle of Shrewsbury
  Quick Summery-
  
  The battle fought on 21 July 1403, waged between an army led by the Lancastrian King Henry IV and a rebel army led by Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland.
  The battle, the
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://www.thepeerage.com/p265.htm#i2649
  
  Sir Walter Blount married Sancha de Ayala, daughter of Diego Gomez de Toledo and Inez Alfonsa de Ayala. He died on 21 July 1403 at Shrewsbury, Shro
  
  Life
  Sir Walter Blount (died 21 July 1403), was a soldier and supporter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. He later supported John's son and heir Henry Bolingbroke in his bid to become king Henry IV and
  
  === Immortalized by Shakespeare. Burke stat ===
  Immortalized by Shakespeare. Burke states, "the heroic Sir Walter Blount, so celebrated for his martial prowess in the warlike times of Edward III and Henry IV." Sir Walter fell at the battle of Shrewsbury, June 22, 1403, wherein, being standard bearer, he was arrayed in the same style of armour as his royal master and was slain in single combat by Earl Douglas who believed he was in combat with the king himself. In 1367, Sir Walter accompanied the Black Prince and the Duke of Lancaster (John of Gaunt) upon the expedition into Spain to aid Peter the Cruel, King of Castile, and was at the battle of Marjara on April 3, 1367, which restored Peter to his throne. He married, about 1372, the Donna Sancha de Ayala, daughter of Don Diego Gomez de Toledo, alcalde mayor and chief justice of Toledo, and notario mayor, or principal secretary of the kingdom of Castile, by his wife Inez Alfon de Ayala, one of the most ancient and illustrious houses of Spain. The Donna Sancha was one of the ladies in waiting in the suite of Constancia of Castile, eldest daughter of Peter the Cruel, later Queen, succeeding her father, and still later consort of John of Gaunt. Sir Walter was one of the executors of the estate of John of Gaunt and a beneficiary to the amount of 66 pound: 6: 8. In 1374, Sir Walter's half brother, Sir John Blount, of Sodington, conveyed to him numerous manors, which he had inherited from his (John's) mother, Isolde, heiress of the Mountjoys. By his wife Sancha, who lived until 1418, his second son was Sir Thomas Bloun.
  
  === Sir Walter was slain in the Battle of S ===
  Sir Walter was slain in the Battle of Shrewsbury. He was of Barton, Derbyshire. John S. Wurts, "Magna Charta, Part VIII," p. 2603, gives his wife as Lady Sancha de Ayala (d. 1418), dau. of Don Diego Gomez de Toledo of Castile; Sir Walter's ancestry is also from Wurts, and is not verified. Source: Ancestors of American Presidents - (1989) p. 294 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sir Walter Blount, who about this time began to omit the prefix "le" to their name, calling themselves Blount only. He was called "the Heroic" and was so celebrated for his martial prowess in the war-like 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 IV. Sir Walter Blount fell at the battle of Shrewsbury on the 22nd of June, 1403, wherein being standard bearer, he was arrayed in the same armour as his royal master, and was slain, according to the poet by the Earl of Douglass, who had supposed he was contending with the King himself. The excerpt from Shakespeare follows: Blunt: What is the name, that in the battle thus thou crossest me? What honour dost thy seek upon my head? Douglass: Know then my name is Douglass; and I do haunt thee in battle thus, because some tell me thou art king. Blunt: They tell thee true. Douglass: The Lord Stafford, dear today hath bought thy likeness; for instead of thee, King Harry. The sword hath ended him; so shall it thee, unless thou yieldest thee as my prisoner. (They fight and Blunt is slain) Enter Lord Percy, called Hotspur. Hotspur: O Douglass, hadst thou fought at Holderness thus I never had triumphed on Scot. Douglass: All's done. All's won. Here breathless lies the King. Hotspur: Where? Douglass: Here. Hotspur: This Douglass? No, I know full well: A gallant knight was he, his name was Blunt. Semblably furnished like the King himself. In this battle the renowned Percy likewise me t his doom. Having thus rehearsed the version of the gallant soldier's death, we retrace our course to detail some passages in his eventful life. In 1367 we find Sir Walter Blount accompanying the Black Prince and John of Gaunt (sons of Edward III) upon the expedition into Spain to aid Peter the Cruel, King of Castile. Here he chose his wife in 1372 from amongst the ladies in the suite of Constantia of Castile (eldest daughter of Peter and his successor on the throne and who became the consort of John of Gaunt). Her name was Donna Sancha de Ayala, the daughter of Don Dugo Gomez of Toledo, chief justice of Toledo and principal secretary of the Kingdom of Castile, by his wife, Inez Alfon de Ayala, one of the most ancient and illustrious houses of Spain. John of Gaunt at his decease appointed Sir Walter Blount one of his executors and bequeathed him a legacy of 100 marks (p66-6s-8d). In 1374 Sir Walter's half brother, Sir John Blount of Sodington, conveyed to him numerous manors which he had inherited from his mother, Isolde, heiress of the Mountjoy family, in Counties Derby, Stafford, Leicester and Hertford. By his wife, Donna Sancha, who survived him, and lived until 1418, he left 3 sons and 2 daughters. Source: Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith
  
  === Additional sons ===
  A contemporary genealogy of the Ayala family, written by Sancha's uncle, gives them three children at the time, John, Peter and Walter, who died young.
  
  === !WALTER BLOUNT II, KNIGHT, 3RD SON, HE W ===
  !WALTER BLOUNT II, KNIGHT, 3RD SON, HE WAS BORN ABOUT 1348. HE APPARENTLY WAS IN THE SERVICE OF JOHN OF GAUNT IN 1369, AND WAS ALREADY A KNIGHT IN MARCH 1371/2. HE WAS CHOSEN A KNIGHT OF THE SHIRE FOR DERBY IN 1399. HE MARRIED ABOUT 1373, SANCHA DE AYALA. HE FOUGHT FOR THE KING AT SHREWSBURY, AND WAS KILLED IN BATTLE JULY 21, 1403, AND WAS BURIED AT ST. MARY'S THE NEWARK, LEICESTER. 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;

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  https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/blount-sir-walter-1403

1. John Blount, b. ABT 1385 in England     d. BEF 26 OCT 1443 in England

1. Title: Walter Blount, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV23-LXNS : 4 June 2020), Walter Blount, 1403; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV23-LXNS;
   
2. Title: History of Sancha Blount: Lady de Ayala
   Author: http://www.geni.com/people/Sancha-Blount-Lady-de-Ayala/6000000005597248903
   Publication: Name: http://www.geni.com/people/Sancha-Blount-Lady-de-Ayala/6000000005597248903;
   Note: In the year 1371 Doña Constanza, daughter of the deceased (and dethroned) King of Castile, Don Pedro I (The Cruel) went to England to become the bride of King Edward III's son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Among the young Castilian ladies of aristocratic birth who accompanied her was Doña Sancha de Ayala, daughter of Don Diego (or Día-) Gómez de Guzmán (or de Toledo) and his wife, Doña Inés de Ayala. About 1373 Doña Sancha married an English knight, Sir Walter Blount, of the Blounts of Sodington, county Worcester. On 26 February in the first year of King Richard II's reign (1378), the Duke of Lancaster, who claimed the thrones of Castile and Leon in right of his wife, granted to Sir Walter and Sancha (for their good service to him) an annuity of 100 marks a year; this grant was confirmed "for their lives in survivorship" by King Richard, April 26, 1399. Records reveal payments to Sancha at various times; once (2 January 1380) her name was associated with that of "Phelippe Chaucy", i.e., Philippa Chaucer, wife of the author of the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. On this occasion she was described by the Duke of Lancaster as "our very dear attendant" (nostre treschere compaigne) "dame Senche Blount". Sir Walter figured prominently in the affairs of England during the times of Edward III and Henry IV. He was a close associate of John of Gaunt, and the latter made him an executor of his will and left him a small legacy. In 1367, Sir Walter accompanied the Black Prince and the Duke of Lancaster (John of Gaunt) upon the expedition into Spain to aid Peter the Cruel, King of Castile, and was at the battle of Marjara on April 3, 1367 which restored Peter to his throne. Sir Walter fell at the battle of Shrewsbury, July 21, 1403, wherein, being standard bearer, he was arrayed in the same style of armour as his royal master and was slain in single combat by Earl Douglas who believed he was in combat with the king himself. Sir Walter was slain in the course of the battle of Shrewsbury, July 21, 1403, and Shakespeare, who drew his facts mainly from Holinshed's "Chronicles" immortalized him in his Henry IV though he called him Sir Walter Blunt. Three years after her husband's death, Dame Sancha founded a chantry in the Hospital of St. Leonard, Alkmonton, county Derbyshire. Her son-in-law, John Sutton, (husband of Constance Bount) died on August 29, 1406. On November 23 following, Dame Sancha was granted commission of the keeping of all the lands late of John Sutton, tenant in chief, during the minority of his six-year-old son and heir, John Sutton; her duties included "finding a competent maintenace for the heir, maintaining the houses and buildings and supporting the charges." In the same month the escheator in Worcestershire was ordered "to take of Constance who was the wife of John Sutton an oath etc. and in the presence of Sancha who was the wife of Walter Blount knight, to whom the king has committed the ward thereof, or of her attorneys, to assign the said Constance dower of the said John's lands." Dame Sancha Blount made her will (still in existence) in 1415, and died in 1418. She was buried beside her husband in the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, The Neward, Leicester. Sancha de Ayala, Lady Bount, the ancestress of several English settlers in America, was descended from some of the most illustrious Castilian families. Through her father she belonged to the House of Guzmán (also called Toledo) which produced many noble families in Spain and a series of wives and mistresses for Spanish and Portuguese kings. Her mother, Inés de Ayala (by whose surname Sancha was known), was sprung from the great House of Ayala of Toledo, which traced its pedigree in the male line to the House of Haro, Lords of Biscay. The proof of Sancha's parentage is contained in a family genealogy begun about 1385 by her materal uncle, Pedro López de Ayala, Grand Chancellor of Castile. He stated that Doña Sancha "married a Knight of England, who was called Sir Walter Blount." Sancha and Sir Walter had two children, Sir Thomas Blount and Constance. Sir Thomas was the father of two sons: (1) Sir Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, whose descendants include Roger Ludlow, first Deputy-Governor of the Colony of CT and two U.S. Presidents, Benjamin Harrison and William Henry Harrison and: (2) Sir Thomas Blount, the ancestor of Anne Marbury Hutchinson and Katherine Marbury Scott. Sancha's older brother, Don Pedro Suåarez was the progenitor of much of Europe's nobility. He married Doña Juana de Orozco, Lady of Pinto and had Inés de Guzmán or de Toledo. By her second husband, Don Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marshal of Castile, she had a daughter, Doña María Fernández. Maria, 4th Lady of Casarrubios del Monte; m. Don Fadrique Enriquez and had Doña Juana Enríquez. Juana, married (1447) as his second wife, John II, King of Aragon and had Ferdinand II of Aragon, better known as Ferdinand V, The Catholic, King of Castile, who married the celebrated Queen Isabella of Castile and had several children including: Emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain), ancestor of the Habsburg and Bourbon Kings of Spain; Juana "La Loca" ("the crazy"), Queen of Castile, who married Philip the Handsome, Archduke of Austria; Ferdinand I, who was progenitor of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors and Emperors of Austria, all of the present European sovereigns (including Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain), most of the dethroned dynasties of Europe, the Calvert family of Maryland, a branch of the Morris family of Philadelphia, and the Custis-Lee family of the Arlington Estate in Virginia; and Catherine of Aragon who married first the Tudor Prince, Arthur and second, his brother, King Henry VIII of England
   
3. Title: The genealogical history of the Croke family, originally named Le Blount
   Author: "The genealogical history of the Croke family, originally named Le Blount", https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhist02crok#page/189
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhist02crok#page/189;
   Note: Pedigree
   Page: Name, death, spouse, children
   
4. Title: Walter Blount in History of Parliament
   Author: Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 Available from Boydell and Brewer
   Publication: Name: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/blount-sir-walter-1403;
   Note: BLOUNT, Sir Walter (d.1403), of Barton Blount, Derbys. Constituency DERBYSHIRE 1399 Family and Education 3rd s. of Sir John Blount (d.1358) of Sodington, Worcs. by his 1st w. Iseult, da. and h. of Thomas Mountjoy of Derbys.; yr. bro. of John Blount II*. m. by 1374, Sancha (d.1418/19), da. of Diego Gomez of Toledo, principal sec. of the province of Toledo, by his w. Ines de Ayala, 5s. inc. Thomas II* (1s. d.v.p.), 2da. Kntd. by Mar. 1372 Sir Walter was fatally wounded; and, in accordance with the terms of his will, made at Liverpool on 16 Dec. 1401, he was buried at the collegiate church of St. Mary ‘de Newark’ in Leicester (a Lancastrian foundation).
   
5. Title: Death of Walter Blount
   Author: History of Parliament on line, BLOUNT, Sir Walter (d.1403), of Barton Blount, Derbys.
   Publication: Name: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/blount-sir-walter-1403;
   Note: gives month and year of death:
   
6. Title: Walter Blount (1350-1403), "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-T15R : 6 February 2023), Sir Walter Blount, ; Burial, Newark-on-Trent, Newark and Sherwood District, Nottinghamshire, England, St. Mary Magdalene Church; citing record ID 50515380, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-T15R;
   Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50515380/walter-blount Sir Walter Blount BIRTH 1350 Elvaston, South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England DEATH 21 Jul 1403 (aged 52–53) Shrewsbury, Shropshire Unitary Authority, Shropshire, England BURIAL St. Mary Magdalene Church Newark-on-Trent, Newark and Sherwood District, Nottinghamshire, England Show Map PLOT with Sancha DeAyala MEMORIAL ID 50515380
   
7. Title: Walter Blount, "Britain, Knights of the Realm index Transcription"
   Author: Findmypast, Britain, Knights of the Realm index Transcription, https://search.findmypast.com/record?id=GBOR/KNIGHTS/REALM/003143&
   Publication: Name: https://search.findmypast.com/record?id=GBOR/KNIGHTS/REALM/003143&;
   Note: First name(s) Walter Last name Blount Biography of Barton Blount, Derbyshire; Chamberlain of Household of John of Gaunt; Constable of Tutbury Castle 1373-1405; MP for Derbyshire 1399; Birth year - Death year 1403 Award Kt Bach Award year 1372 Award date March 1372 Remarks Hop 2/262
   Page: Name, death, awart
   
8. Title: Walter Blount & Ayala in Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89QR-P75G?cc=2060211&wc=WWJR-J6W%3A352088201%2C353628301
   Author: "Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89QR-P75G?cc=2060211&wc=WWJR-J6W%3A352088201%2C353628301 : 20 May 2014), B > Blount, Richard (1800) - Blume, Heinrich Andreas (1714) > image 90 of 1322; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiler, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89QR-P75G;
   Note: Walter Blount (1350-1403) married in 1371 Sancha de Ayala and had children according to research before 1954
   Page: Names, dates, locations, and relationships match research
   
9. Title: Walter Blount (1348-1403), Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Blount_(soldier);
   Note: Sir Walter Blount (circa 1348-21 July 1403), was a soldier and supporter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. He later supported John's son and heir Henry Bolingbroke in his bid to become King Henry IV and in later battles against his enemies. At the Battle of Shrewsbury he served as the royal standard-bearer, was mistaken for the king and killed in combat. Walter Blount was the third son of Sir John Blount of Sodington, by his first wife, Iseult Mountjoy, and was a child at the death of his father in 1358 (his eldest brother Richard, the heir, was aged 13). Blount became a member of the household of John of Gaunt by 1372, and married by 1374 to Sancha de Ayala, the daughter of Diego Gómez. He represented Derbyshire in Henry IV's first parliament, which met on 6 Oct 1399. He was buried in the church St. Mary 'of Newark', Leicester. His widow Sancha survived him until 1418. Sir Walter Blount's will, made 16 Dec 1401.
   Page: WIKI
   
10. Title: Sir Walter Blount in the Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22
    Author: Supplement (Vol 22) page 116
    Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=1981&h=80751&indiv=try;
    Note: Name: Sir Walter Blount Death Date: 1403 Death Place: Shrewsbury, England