Muriel de Valognes

Family/Spouse: Hubert de Munchensy. Hubert (son of Hubert de Munchensy) was born in of Edwardstone, Suffolk, England; died after 1115. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William le Blount. William (son of Gilbert le Blount and Alicia Colekirke) was born about 1087 in of Ixworth, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Hubert le Blund.

Family/Spouse: Agnes d'Lisle. Agnes died after 1198. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Marie le Blount. Marie (daughter of William le Blount) was born in of Saxlingham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Odingsells. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called William le Blund.

"The first Lord Mountjoy descended, through younger sons in several generations, from William le Blund (Blundus-fair-haired), who married Isabel, widow of Henry Lovet, of Elmley Lovet and Hampton Lovet, co. Worcester which Henry died under age about 1256. William le Blund and his brother Walter were accused in August 1265, before the commissioners appointed under the Dictum of Kenilworth, of unlawful violence at Quinton, Northants. Tradition says that the abovesaid Isabel was a Beauchamp. The record of the assizes held at Worcester, 1275, contains several references to William le Blund. He was there pledge for [his stepson] John Lovet, and (since there is no differentiating description of either) is presumably the William le Blund who, was son and heir of John le Blund, son and heir of Walter le Blund, was found to be heir to lands in Doverdale (a parish adjoining Hampton Lovet) which had belonged to Amice, daughter of the said Walter. The above said William and Isabel, in addition to their Worcestershire property, held the manor of Belton in Rutland, and there seems to have been a close connection between this family and the family of the same name in Hanslope, Bucks. William le Blund appears to have died in the Spring of 1280. His widow was living in February 1322/3." [Complete Peerage IX:329-30]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Beauchamp. Isabel died in 1306. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Walter le Blount, 3rd son of William and Isabel, was in 1313 of the Lancastrian party against Gaveston. In 1318 and 1321 he was Knight of the shire for Worcester, and in 1322 was summoned for personal service against the Scots." [Complete Peerage IX:330-1]

Walter married Joan de Sodington before Feb 1294. Joan was born in of Sodington, Worcestershire, England; died after 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Complete Peerage IX: 331:

"John le Blount, 2nd s. of Walter and Joan abovenamed, was in 1324 a practised soldier belonging to Worcestershire. In 1337, being then a knight, he was found heir to his elder brother, William Blount [Lord Blount]. He was joint commissioner in Worcestershire in 1344, to inquire as to holders of land. He served in Gascony under Henry, Earl of Lancaster, and afterwards, 1347, under the King at the siege of Calais, till Edward's return to England. In Oct. 1350 he was undertaking a pilgrimage to Santiago. He m. Isoude.(*) He d. in 1358."

CP footnote attached to the asterisk in the above:

"(*) According to tradition, Isoude de Mountjoy. The mystery of her parentage has not been solved. The release by John le Blount in 1374 to his brother Walter of all his rights in lands in Gayton, Yeldersley, Brushfield, Wc. (Croke, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 171), which were Mountjoy manors in the 13th and 14th centuries (Jeayes, Derbyshire Charters, no. 1608 et seq), suggests that a portion of the Mountjoy estates had descended by inheritance to John, then eldest surviving son of John le Blount and Isoude. It was a portion only, because (i) Gayton and Yeldersley, &c, descended, through the marriage of Isoude (da. and h. of Serle de Mountjoy, s. and h. of Ralph de Mountjoy) to Robert de Ireland (Plac. de Quo Warranto, p. 155); the family of Ireland were still holding temp. Henry VII (Feudal Aids, vol. i, p. 250 et seq. ; Jeayes, op. cit., no. 2731); (ii) the receipt given by Madam Wake in 1359 for evidences belonging to Richard Blount, the young heir of John and Isoude, refers to vint oyt feetes en un boist del heritage la mere le dit Richard et ses parceners des tenements en le Pek, (Ac. (Harl. MS. 6709, fo. 119 d)."

Nathaniel Lane Taylor, post to SGM, 17 Feb 2008:

"As CP shows, Sir John Blount (d. 1358) can only be shown to have had one wife, Isolda de Mountjoy. Older sources assign him a second wife, Eleanor Beauchamp (of Hache) who is made to be the mother of his younger sons (including the one whose descendants took the peerage title 'Mountjoy'). On the alleged Blount-Beauchamp marriage, an article by Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, "The Blount Quarters," The Coat of Arms 4 (1957), 224-27, is corrected by G. D. Squibb, "The Heirs of Beauchamp of Hatch," ibid., pp. 275-77, showing that the particular claimed marriage cannot have happened.

"More importantly, Isolda is documented as still wife of Sir John Blount in 1352, well after the apparent birth year of Walter, ancestor of the lords Mountjoy. Croke (in his Blount work back in 1823) quoted the 1352 charter but didn't realize the chronological implication, repeating the two-wife fallacy."

Family/Spouse: Isouda. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]