Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: after February 1322/3.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (9:330).
Relationships
Father: Richard de Sodington.
See the Commentary section.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Sir Walter Blount.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (9:330).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sir William Blount (died 1337) married Margaret de Verdon.
Sir John Blount (1307 - 1358) married Iseult Montjoy.
Walter Blount married Maud.
Evidence
from Croke (Appendix, No. XV) A Catalogue of deeds, and extracts of deeds, and other documents, preserved in the Harleian Manuscript, No. 6079, page 130. It has the name of Henry Lilly, Rouge Rose, and seems to have been written by him.
5. Feoffment. Johanna, formerly wife of Walter le Blount, gives to her son William, all her lands with the villains, and their appurtenances, in Sodniton, and Mommele, and le Orchard in the manor of Abbodelegh. If William should die without heirs, to revert to her, and her heirs. Dated at Schulton, on the 6th of April, in the 5th year of Edward the Third, 1331. Witnesses, Nicholas Charneles, William Motton, Ralph Mallore, Hugh Turville. Seal, three leopards' heads, jessant-de-lis, Sodington.
9. Gift of Chattels from William le Blount to his mother, Johanna, 5th Edw. III. 1331.
A touts ceux que cette lettre aurront on virent, Willm le Blount, le neveu, salutz en Dieu. Cum ceo ey done et lesse a ma tres cher Dame et Mere Johanna la Blount la manneire de Sodniton, et le Orchard, a avoir et tenure a toute sa vie, compier et per un escrit de ceo a lui faite: Saches moi avoire dones entirement grante a ma treschere Dame et Mere avandite touts les biens de chataux moeble esteant en les terres et tenements avandite. En la tesmoigne de que chose a cestes lettres ai mise mon seau. Dat. a Schelton le dmco make Edw. III. puis le conquete quinto.
Seal, Sigillum Willielmi Le Blount, a fesse between six martlets.
10. The feoffment to which the former refers. William le Blount grants Sodington to his mother Johanna. Same date and seal.
Ista presens indentura testatur, quod Dominus Willelmus de Blount tradidit, concessit, &c. Johannae, quondam uxori Walteri de Blount, matri suae, manerium de Sodinton, cum omnibus suis pertinentiis, in comitatu Worcester, in hundred, de Dodnigtre scilicet, et unum messuagium, cum una carrucata terrae, apud quendam locum qui vocatur le Orchard, cum omnibus suis pertinentiis, que quidem tenementa idem Dominus Willelmus predictus habuit ex dono et feoffamento predictae Johannae, matris suae, habendum &c. hiis testibus, Domino Henrico de Ribbesford, et Roberto de Stormy, militibus, Johanne de la More, Waltero de Shakenhurst, Richardo de Porter, et aliis. Data apud Schelton, die dominico proximo ante festum Sancti Barnabae Apostoli, anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii a conquesto quinto.
from the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records v. 49, appendix 1, p. 158:
8 Edward 1.
m. 1d. (67). Soddington (“Sudinton”) (Worc.); appointment of Robert Fulconis and Giles de Berkeley to take the assise of mort dancestor arraigned by Radulph son of Richard de Sodynton against Roger de Mortimer the elder, touching two parts of the manor of.
Commentary
Stewart Baldwin, on the soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup, pointed out that Richard, not Ralph as stated in the Worcestershire Victoria County History (and as I previously mistakenly gave on this page), was the father of Joan and her siblings, based on evidence including the case abstracted by the DKPR above. (Google has abandoned maintaining the group, but recent posts are accessible via Thunderbird.) An abstract of a case from the plea rolls from Collectanea topographica et genealogica v. 1 (p. 146) mistakenly makes Joan a daughter rather than sister of Ralph de Sodington, an error which the Worcester VCH followed. The original record of the assize at AALT (JUST 1/1329, fronts, image 1508) shows that Ralph was in fact the brother, not father, of Joan and her siblings.
References
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).
Croke, Sir Alexander. The Genealogical History of the Croke Family, Originally Named Le Blount. (1823).
"Parishes: Doverdale." A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3. London: Victoria County History, 1913. 69-71.
"Parishes: Eastham." A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4. Eds. William Page, and J W Willis-Bund. London: Victoria County History, 1924. 265-272.
"Parishes: Mamble." A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4. Eds. William Page, and J W Willis-Bund. London: Victoria County History, 1924.
“Pedigrees from the Plea-Rolls, &c.” in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica v. 1 (1834).
Register of Bishop William Ginsborough, 1303-1307: Edited for the Worcestershire Historical Society. (1907).