Sir Walter Blount

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1323.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the VCH of Worcester (4:sub Mamble).

Relationships

Father: William le Blund.

This relationship is given by Croke and by the Complete Peerage (9:330).

Mother: Isabella, the widow of Henry Lovet.

This relationship is given by Croke (pp. 121-127), who gives her as the daughter of William de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick. The Complete Peerage (9:329) wonders if she was a daughter of William Beauchamp of Elmley Castle by Isabel Mauduit.

Spouse: Joan de Sodington.

This relationship is given by Croke (p. 128), by Murphy, by The Complete Peerage (2:196), and by the VCH of Worcester (4: sub Mamble).

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.

8. An assize held at Southampton, in the 31st of Edward the First, 1302. Richard, son of Reginald le Porter, William Doverdale, and Eutachia his wife, Walter le Blount, and Johanna his wife, disseized of a tenement in Tadley, which had been conveyed to Ralph de Sodington, came to his brother William, and then to his three sisters, Martha, Eustathia, and Johanna.

1. Peter le Blount to Walter le Blound. Feoffment of the manor of Timberlake. No date.

Sciant presentes et futuri, quod Ego, Petrus le Blound, dedi, et concessi, et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi, Waltero le Blound, fratri meo totum manerium meurn de Timberlake, in Comitatu Wigornie, quod Isabella le Blound, mater mea, per mortem Henrici Lovet, mariti sui, aliquando tenuit in dotem, et quod habui de dono, et concessione, remissione, et quieta clamancia Cecilie Lovet, et Alicie Lovet, heredum Domini Johannis Lovet, Militis, filii et heredis Henrici Lovet predicti, habendum et tenendum predicto Waltero le Blound, heredibus et assignatis suis, totum manerium de Timberlake predictum, cum omnibus suis pertinentiis, bene et. in pace, et jure hereditario, imperpetuum, de capitalibus dominis feodi illius, faciendo eisdem pro predicto manerio cum suis pertinentiis servicia inde debita et consueta. Et ego dictus Petrus le Blound, heredes mei, et assignati, predicto Waltero, heredibus suis, et assignatis, predictum manerium de Timberlake, cum suis pertinentiis, ut predictum est, contra omnes homines warrantizabimus, et defendemus imperpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium presenti carte sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus Dominis Willielmo Corbett, Henrico de Ribbesford, Edmundo de Graftone, et Roberto Stormy, Militibus, Richardo de Bellocampo, Thoma de Solneye, Thoma Conan, Ada de Molendino, Thoma Allayn de Toyth, et aliis.

4. Feoffment. Walter le Blount to William, son of Ralph de Doverdale. Gift of Hanrugg.

By a feoffment without date, Sir Walter le Blount, with the consent of Johanna his wife gave to William the son of Ralph de Doverdale, and Eustachia his wife, all his part in Hanrugge, in the county of Gloucester, which descended to him by the inheritance of his wife Johanna, after the decease of William de Sodington, her brother. The witnesses are, John Lovet, Peter le Blount, Richard le Botiler, Richard de Actone, William de Porter, Richard de la Lowe, John Allot, with many others. This deed is as follows :

Sciant &c. quod ego Walterus le Blount ex assensu et consensu Johannae uxoris meae dedi, concessi, et hac presenti charta mea confirmavi, Willo, filio Radi de Douerdale, et Eustachiae, uxori suae, totam partem meam de Hanrugg in Com. Gloucestr. quae mihi descendebat ex hereditate predict. Johae uxoris meae post decessum Willmi de Sodington fris sui cum oibz, &c. hiis testibus dno. Johne Lovet, inde dno. Petro le Blount, Rico le Botiler, Rico de Actone, Willo de Porter, Rico de la Lowe, Johanne Allott. cum multis aliis.

7. John Lovett, Lord of Elmsley, Knight, releases to Walter le Blount, his brother, 4s. rent, for a garden, in Wernesley. No date, or seal.

from Croke (Appendix, No. XVIII) A Catalogue of copies, and extracts, of ancient deeds, formerly belonging to Lord Mountjoy, preserved by Dugdale in his Manuscripts, volume 39, folio 47 et seq.

11. Willus fil. Radulphi de Doverdale, ex assensu Eustacie uxoris, dedi Waltero le Blount, et Johanne uxori, terras de Bradfeld in Hounlanynton in Willts, quam mihi descendebat ex haereditate Eustacie uxoris meae post decessum Willmi de Sodyntone fratris sui, in excambio pro aliis terris, viz. his part of Hanrugg, which came by his wife Johanna. No date.

37.

Willus de Blund, miles, dedit Waltero le Blund, fratis suo, terras in Timberlack. –Edw. II.

from Croke (2:131):

Peter le Blount, on his seal, bore four coats of arms; first, a fesse between six cross-croslets, for Beauchamp, which came to him from his mother Isabel. Secondly, a fesse, between six wolves' heads, erased, for Lovet, on account of his possessing the manor of Timberlake, which belonged to that family: for arms were frequently considered as territorial, and went with estates. Thirdly, the nebuly arms of Blount, and fourthly, a fesse between six martlets, the other arms of Blount; which were borne by the descendants of Sir William le Blount, brother to Sir Robert. [Croke has a drawing.]

from the Calendar of Close Rolls:

1316. March 12. Langley.

…a fee in Hampton, in the same county, which John Lovet holds, of the yearly value of 20l.: a fee in Hampton and Kemyngford, in the same county, which Peter le Bound holds, cf the yearly value of 20l….

from a 1316 inquisition post mortem of Guy de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick:

Worcester. Inq. 20. Jan. 9 Edw. II.

Hampton. 1 knight’s fee held by John Lovet.

Hampton and Kemyngford. 1 knight’s fee held be Peter le Blound.

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).

A History of the County of Worcester (Victoria County History) Volume 3 (1913), Volume 4 (1924).

Murphy, Beverley Anne. The Life and Political Significance of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, 1525-1535. (PhD Thesis, Bangor, 1997).