John Blount

Bef 1471 - 1531  (> 60 years)

• Name	John Blount
  Birth	Bef 1471	of Kinlet, Shropshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Kinlet Hall, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Alternate birth	1484  [5]
  Alternate death	Bef 1531  [2]
  Death	27 Feb 1531  [1, 5, 6]
  Burial	St. John the Baptist, Kinlet, Shropshire, England   [7]
  Person ID	I43717	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Blount,   b. of Kinlet, Shropshire, England d. 1524
  Mother	Anne Croft
  Family ID	F21793	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Peshall,   b. 1483   d. 1540 (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	1 Aug 1492	Kinlet, Shropshire, England   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Blount,   b. Abt 1500   d. Between Jan 1539 and Jun 1541 (Age ~ 39 years)
  Family ID	F21789	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Shropshire, 1529. Sheriff of Staffordshire 1526-27; Sheriff of Shropshire from 1530 to his death. Knighted in November or December of 1529. The History of Parliament gives his birth as "by 1471", whereas the ODNB (in the entry for his daughter Elizabeth Blount) says 1484. No explanation is obvious for this wide divergence. He fought at the siege of Tournai on 16 Aug 1513. He later accompanied Henry VIII to France to attend Henry's meeting with Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

  
  

• Sources

  [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S6178] Philippa Swinnerton Hughes, "Grant by Joan, Lady of Knightley, of Her Arms to Richard Peshall." Notes and Queries, 3rd series, 10 Sep 1864, p. 203. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S953] The Parshall Family A.D. 870-1913: A Collection of Historical Records and Notes to Accompany the Parshall Pedigree by Horace Field Parshall. London: Francis Edwards, 1915. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., year only. [S160] Wikipedia.