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Sir Walter Blount (circa 1348-21 July 1403), was a soldier and supporter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. He later supported John's son and heir Henry Bolingbroke in his bid to become King Henry IV and in later battles against his enemies.
He succeeded his father, Sir Thomas Blount, as Treasurer of Calais in 1460, becoming governor a year later as a reward for service rendered to King Edward IV at the Battle of Towton. Edward conferred on him in 1467 rich estates in Devon forfeited by the Earl of Devon; and in 1465 Blount was made lord high treasurer and created Baron Mountjoy .
Walter Aston Edward Blount Esq. FSA (7 February 1807 – 9 February 1894) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He was born the eldest son of Edward Blount , the third, but second surviving, son of Sir Walter Blount, 6th Baronet of Sodington, Worcestershire .
Perhaps in desperation, Hotspur led a charge aimed at killing the King himself, during which the Royal Standard was overthrown and its bearer, Sir Walter Blount, was hacked down either by Percy himself or by Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas. Hotspur was killed in the charge, reputedly shot in the face with an arrow when he opened his visor.
Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy: c. 1420–1474 1472 207 John Howard, 1st Baron Howard: c. 1425–1485 1472 Later Duke of Norfolk 208 John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk: 1442–1492 c. 1473 209 Thomas Fitzalan, Baron Maltravers: d. 1524 1474 210 William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal: c. 1434–1483 1474 211 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of ...
The Blounts were a junior part of the family Blount of Sodington of Worcestershire. The first Baron was the great-grandson of Sir John Blount of Sodington and Isolda Mountjoy, and the grandson of Sir Walter Blount, bearer of the Royal Standard of Henry IV at the Battle of Shrewsbury during 1403 where he was slain. [1]
John Blount was born circa 1450 in Rock, Worcestershire, [citation needed] the second son of Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy, by his first wife, Helena Byron, the daughter of Sir John Byron of Clayton, Lancashire.
Sir John Blount was a loyal, if unremarkable, servant to the English royal family, who accompanied King Henry to France in 1513 when he waged war against Louis XII of France. The Blount family was of landed gentry status but had no real national input until Blount gave birth to Henry Fitzroy, the only acknowledged illegitimate child of Henry ...