Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Thomas Blount

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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]
Siblings
2 siblings Person ID I2608 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TWK 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
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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)
- Knight of the shire for Derbyshire, 1420.
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Sources - [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.
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