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BLOUNT — BLUNDELL. 3G5 BLOUNT, or 1.1 BLOUNT, Barony by J, R U ! T&mW E.B Rlouxt(") of Belton, oo. Rutland, wnt - 2nd s. bat eventually h. of Sir Ralph le Blount of the same, bv Cecilia I. 132G. ( '"' Ali,:i;l ) <la - ou li°i »f SSr John Lovf.tt of Hampton LoVett, co, ■Worcester, was one of the Knights who fought under Edward I. and was Governor of Drossalap Castle in the vale of Tuwy, co. Carmarthen, 1311. He was Steward of the Household, 1320, anil was sum. to Pari, as a Baron [LORD LE BLOUNT] by writs 3 Dec. (1326), 20 Ed. II to 15 June (13281 2 Ed. III.C'i directed to " Thome Le Blount." He m. firstly ( ). He m. secondly 1325, Juliana, widow of John (bb HasHSOS), Loud Hastings (1313-25), da. and h. of Thomas de Leviiohxk, by Alice, da. of H:l|di dk Toxv of Flamstead, Herts. He d. (1330), 4 Ed. III. In the same year his widow in. Sir William Clixtox, who in 1337 was a: EaKL OK HrxTlNCDOx, and who d. s.p. 1354. She, who from her great possessions was called '"The Infanta of Kent," d. s.p 1369, and was bur. at St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury, being found (by Jiu/. pod mortem) to have no heirs. II. 1330. ,?. William CLe Blouxt), Lord Le Blount, s. and h. by 1st. wife, was M.P. for co. Rutland 1299 to 1313 and, on his Father's death, was sum. to Pari, as a Baron 25 Jan. (1329/30) 4 Ed. Ill, to 18 Aug. (1337) 11 Ed. lELCO He was possessed of the mauors of Beltou and of Hampton Lovett afsd, and was living 13t5'3,( c ) but none of his decendauts possessed the status of Barons. [Sir Jorrx Le Blouxt of Bel ton afsd., 8, and h., but never sum. as a Baron to Pari., was Constable of the Tower of London to Ed. III. He m. firstly ( ). He m. secondly, in or before 1366, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Simon dk Tokuxeaux, by Alice, da. of Sir Henry U.mkiiaville. She survived him and was living 1385. His s. andh. by his 1st wife was Sin Thomas Le Blouxt also of Beltou. He, like his Father, was never sum. as a Baron to Pari. He was Deputy Xaperer for the Earl of Pembroke at the coronation of Richard II in 1377, but, engaging in a con- spiracy to restore that King, was attainted and put to death, with unwonted barbarity, in Dee. 1399, when any Peerage honours vested in him became forfeited.] BLUNDELL. Viscountcy [I.] 1, Sir Moxtague Bluxdell, Bart, [I.], was on 22 1 17-^0 '• BARON BLUNDELL OF EDEXDEHliY, King's t > County, and VISCOUNT BLUNDELL [I.], the privy seal bearing 1-1 (• date 27 June previous, at Herenhausen in Hanover. He was 6. 1 (00. 1(iS y being s. and h. of Sir Francis Blusdkll, 3rd Bart. [I.], of Blun- dell Manor, King's County, by Anne, his 2nd wife, da. of Sir Henry (») See Vol. i. p. 112, &c. of Sir Alex. Croke's " Croke family orignally Le Blount," 2 vols. 4 to, 1S23. ( b ) It is conjectured in Banks' * Ilarouia Angl. Concentrata," vol. i, p. 126, that Thomas de Blount and his successor (William) were each sum jure uxoris, "for," adds Banks, " at that period, tho' the writs were personal, without any reference to a particular Barony, yet they were chielly founded on the possession of some Baronial estate, which ceasing to remain in the inheritance of their decendants, such descendants were no longer reputed Barons, nor had further summons directed to them." ( c ) He is gaid by some to have m. Margaret, da. and coheir of Theobald dk Vkhuon, but in Croke's " Le Blount Familv " no such wife is given him, while it is probable that the said Margaret m. a different William Le Blount. This last named William (and not the William s. of Sir Thomas B. of Belton, as in the text) was, according to some authorities, the William Blount sum. by the writ of 1330, iu such his distinguished alliance. See ante note " b." 2 c