William le Blund

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: the spring of 1280.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (9:330).

Relationships

Father: John le Blund.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (9:330). John was the son of Walter le Blund, and inherited land in Doverdale, Worcestershire from Walter’s daughter Amice.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Isabel, the widow of Henry Lovet.

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

Brother: Walter le Blund.

Walter appears in a 1265 case below in the Evidence section.

Children:

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

Piers le Blount (died 1320).

Walter le Blount married Joan de Soddington.

Evidence

from Hunter (Rotuli Selecti):

Will’s de Hayes querit’ qd Will’s le Blund Walt’ frat’ ejus Rob’s de Aldewincle & Simon Quat’homes ven’unt ad domu suam in Quenton die Martis p’x^a post bellu de Evesham anno r r xlix^o. vi et armis & ipm’ de bonis suis scil’ de bobz ovibz & capis dep’dav’unt ad vale’ciam xl. li t’p’e t’bac’ois &c. & co’ta pace &c….

from the Complete Peerage (9:330 fn):

At Easter 1268 Geoffrey le Venur acknowledged he held from William le Blount and Isabel his wife half a knight’s fee in Peauton (Belton), Rutland (Assize Roll 721, rot. I); in 1271 William and Isabel were parties, with Walter le Blund, presumably his brother…, to a settlement of land there, in consideration of which they gave him land in Marworth, Bucks (Feet of Fines, Rutland, file 3, no. 73).

The Rutland VCH (2:sub Belton) reads the Walter in the same fine (Rutland file 3, no. 73) as referring to William and Isabel’s younger son rather than William’s brother.

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).

Hunter, Joseph. Rotuli Selecti ad Res Anglicas et Hibernicas Spectante ex Archivis in Domo Capiltulari West-Monasteriensi, Deprompti. (1834).

"Parishes: Bayton." A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4. Eds. William Page, and J W Willis-Bund. London: Victoria County History, 1924. 237-241.

"Parishes: Belton." A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2. Ed. William Page. London: Victoria County History, 1935. 27-32.

"Parishes: Mamble." A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4. Eds. William Page, and J W Willis-Bund. London: Victoria County History, 1924.