Thomas de Mountjoy

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Thomas was still alive in 1347 (See the Evidence section below.)

Relationships

Father: Robert de Mountjoy.

This relationship is given by Statham

Mother: Margaret.

Margaret appears as Robert’s wife in an assize from9 Edward I [1280] (Wright, p. 320).

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Roger Mountjoy (living 1352)

Iseult Mountjoy married Sir John Blount of Sodington.

Probably at least one other daughter.

Evidence

1313:

Release by Thomas fil. Roberti de Mountjoye to Ralph Gerard of Wynster of three messuages and lands in Wynster, with release from all actions by reason of any grants by Robert de Mountjoy, his father, for the observance of which he binds himself in £40. Witn. Gilbert Gerard of Wynster, Robert Mariote, Lodewyc de Wynster, etc. Dat. Sun. a. F. of St. Cedde [7 Jan.], 6 Edw. II. [1313] [Jeayes, no. 2623.]

1347:

Thomas Barinton miles, et Margareta uxor ejus constituunt Henricum de la Bene de Frowdeswall attornatum suum tradere possessionem Thomae de Montjoy de omnibus terris suis in Birchinfeyld, Mournsale, Longesdon, et Tottinley in le Peek, et in Shawesdale in Com. Derb. 21 Edw. III. 1347. [Croke, Appendix, No. XVIII, part 2, no. 20.]

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).

Jeayres, I. H., and Henry Howe Bemrose. Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters in Public and Private Libraries and Muniment Rooms. (1906).

Rawcliffe, Carole. “Sir Walter Blount (d. 1403)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

Rawcliffe, “Blount, Sir Walter (d. 1403), of Barton Blount, Derbys.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993).

Statham, S.P.H. “Later Descendants of Domesday Holders of Land in Derbyshire” Part 3 in Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, vol. 49 (1927). pp. 233ff.

Woodger, L.S. “Blount, John II (aft. 1345-1425), of Sodington, Worcs.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993).

Wright, George Thomas. Longstone Records, Derbyshire. (1906).