Thomas Blount

Abt 1383 - 1456  (~ 73 years)

• Name	Thomas Blount  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	Abt 1383  [5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1456	Elvaston, Shardlow, Derbyshire, England   [5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  Person ID	I2608	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Walter Blount,   b. Abt 1348   d. 21 Jul 1403, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Age ~ 55 years)
  Mother	Sancha de Ayala,   b. of Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain d. 1418, England
  Marriage	Abt 1373  [6, 10, 12]
  Family ID	F3186	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret de Gresley   d. Aft 1439
  Children	+ 1. Sanche Blount,   b. Abt 1418, of Elvaston, Derbyshire, England + 2. Thomas Blount,   b. Abt 1420, of Elwaston, Derbyshire, England d. Bef 11 Feb 1468 (Age ~ 48 years) > 3. Walter Blount,   b. Abt 1420   d. 1 Aug 1474 (Age ~ 54 years)
  Family ID	F1876	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Derbyshire, 1420. Sheriff of Staffordshire 6 Nov 1444 - 4 Nov 1445; 4 Nov 1446 - 9 Nov 1447. "Treasurer of Normandy under Henry V." [Nathaniel L. Taylor, "Cassandra Elizabeth Taylor's royal descents."] "[A]t first destined for church, entered minor holy orders; renounced the church after his brother's death [Sir John Blount, K.G., d. 1418] and only then m. Margaret Gresley." [Nathaniel L. Taylor, post to soc.genealogy.medieval] "Sir Thomas [...] 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." [Wikipedia entry on his father, Walter Blount] Thomas Blount (1383-1456) = Margaret de Gresley Walter Blount (d. 1474) = Ellen Byron William Blount (d. 1471) = Margaret Etchingham (d. 1481) Elizabeth Blount = Andrews Windsor (1467-1543) Eleanor Windsor = Edward Nevill Catherine Nevill = Clement Throckmorton (d. 1573) Catherine Throgmorton = Thomas Harby (d. 1594) Emma Harby (1590-1622) = Robert Charlton (d. 1670) Emma Charlton = Henry Barnard (d. 1680) Elizabeth Barnard (d. 1719) = James Brydges (1642-1714) Mary Brydges (1666-1703) = Theophilus Leigh (1647-1725) Thomas Leigh (1696-1764) = Jane Walker (1705-1768) Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827) = George Austen (1731-1805) Jane Austen (1775-1817)

  
  

• Sources

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