'Blount05'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Blount of Eye (Yeo), Blount of Kenswick, Blount (Blunt) of Kidderminster, Blount of Kinlet (Kynlet or Kinlett)

                               
John Blount of Kynlet (d 1442)
Visitation mentions a possible additional marriage for John, to a daughter (& co-heir) of Brian Brampton.
m. Alice Delabere (dau of Kinard Delabere of Cheshire)
1. Humphrey Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shropshire (d 1477)
  m. Elizabeth Winnington (dau of Robert Winnington of Delves, Cheshire)
A. Sir Thomas Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shropshire (b by 1456, d 1525)
  Robinson does not follow this line but mentions that Sir Thomas had 20 children by ...
  m. Ann Croft (dau of Sir Richard Croft of Croft Castle)
  i. Sir John Blount of Kinlet (b 1484)
  m. Katherine Pershall (dau of Sir Hugh Pershall of Knightly, Staffordshire)
a. George Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shropshire (d 1582)
  m. Constance Talbot (dau of John Talbot)
  (1) Dorothy Blount
  m1. John Purslow of Sudbury
  m2. Edward Bullock of Bradley
  b. Henry Blount of Bewdley
  m. Johanna Somervile (dau of John Somervile of Edreston)
  (1) George Blount
c. Elizabeth ('Bessie') Blount (d c1540)
  p. Henry Tudor, King Henry VIII of England (b 28.06.1491, d 28.01.1547)
  m1. (c1519) Gilbert Tailboys, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1st Lord Tailboys (dvp 15.04.1530)
  m2. (c1531) Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln (b 1512, d 16.01.1585)
  d. Rosa Blount
  m. William Grisling of Lincolnshire
e. Agnes Blount
  m. Richard Lacon of Willey
  Kinlet later passed into the Lacon family.
  f. Isabella Blount
  m. William Reade of Oatland
  g.+ other issue - William, Albora
  ii. Walter Blount 'of Astley, Worcestershire'
  m. Margaret Acton (dau of Walter Acton)
  a. Elizabeth Blount probably of this generation
  m. (21.06.1544) Richard Winford of Sapey
  b. Margery Blount probably of this generation
  m. Roger Stamford of Honnesworth (a 1583)
iii. Robert Blount 'of Eckington' (d 1580)
  m. Elizabeth Columbell (dau of ?? Columbell of Darley)
  a. George Blount or Blunt of Eckington
  m. Rosamund Frecheuile (dau of Peter Frechuile of Staley)
  partner(s) unknown
  (1) Charles Blunt
  (2) Frances Blount (or Barber) probably of this generation
  m. Ralph Clarke (d 08.1660)
  b. Godfrey Blount
  c. Frances Blount
  m1. _ Tye
  m2. Thomas Smith
  d. Ann Blount
  m1. Nicholas Towers
  m2. Francis Denman (rector of West Retford)
e. Elizabeth Blount
  m. Nicholas Browne
  f. Goditha Blount
  m. Thomas Statham
  iv. Edward Blount or Blunt 'of Kidderminster'
Visitation just mentions this Edward and shows him as married to a daughter of John Garneys. A RootsWeb site shows this to have been Edward of Kidderminster (d 1559) who married Margaret Garneys and was father of Thomas father of Christopher. Using that as a foundation, the following has been pulled together from various web sites and cross-references.
  m. Margaret Garneys (dau of John Garneys)
a. Thomas Blount or Blunt of Kidderminster, Worcestershire (d 28.11.1569)
  m. Margaret Poley (bur 02.11.1595, dau of Edmund Poley of Badley)
  (1) Sir Edward Blount of Kidderminster (b c1554, bur 18.11.1630)
  m. Mary Neville (dau of Edward Neville, Lord Bergavenny, by Catherine Brome)
  (2) Sir Christopher Blount of Kidderminster (b c1556, d 18.03.1600/1)
  m. (before 08.1589) Lettice Knollys (b 1539/40, d 25.12.1634, dau of Sir Francis Knollys of Rotherfield)
  (3) George Blount (bpt 1552, d infant)
  (4) Mary or Elizabeth Blount (bpt 05.09.1561)
One web site suggests that Mary became known as Elizabeth when Queen Elizabeth I succeeded her sister Mary.
  m. Richard Cotton of Bedhampton
  b. Katherine Blount shown by at least one web site as daughter rather than sister of Thomas
  m. Walter Griffith (b c1535, d 20.01.1584)
  c. Joyce Blount
  m. _ Combe
  v. Ann Blount
  m. Humphrey Massy (d 1540)
  vi. Elianora Blount
  m. Thomas Scriven of Frodesley (d 1533)
  vii. Margaret Blount
  m. John Corbet of Leigh
  viii. Joyce Blount
  m. Thomas Thorney of Worcestershire
  ix. Katherine Blount
  m. Robert Smith
  x. Johanna Blount
  m. John Monington
  xi.+ 10 other children (including Arthur)
  B. Edmund Blount
  C. Walter Blount
i. Charles Blount
  D. John Blount of Eye or Yeo or Yee, Herefordshire
  m. Elizabeth Eye or Yee (dau/heir of John Eye of Eye (Yee of Yee or Yeo))
  i. John Blount of Eye (Yeo or Yee)
  m1. Anna Smith (dau of (Sir) Richard Smith of Bromyard)
  a. John Blount of Eye (bur 1588)
  m. Katherine Warncombe (dau of Richard Warncombe)
  (1) John Blount of Eye (d 12.09.1629)
  m. Elizabeth Price (dau of James Price of Manachty (Monaltie or Monnaughty))
  (A) Walter Blount of Eye and/or Stretton (bpt 03.08.1581, bur 05.10.1637)
  m. Maria Brabason (dau of _ Brabason of Ireland)
  (i)+ issue - Richard (bpt 08.12.1610), John (b c1610), Charles, Susanna
  (B) Francis Blount of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire (bpt 07.08.1583, a 1637)
  m. Mary Havard (dau of Edward Havard of Hereford)
  (i) Francis Blount of Brimsold Court (bpt 14.03.1611-2)
  (a) Edward Blount (b c1632, d 1685)
  m. Elizabeth Bowyer of Iver
  ((1)) Mary Blount (d unm 1681)
(ii)+ other issue - Edward, John, Thomas, George, 8 daughters
  (C) Herbert Blount (bpt 13.10.1589, dsp 1635)
  (D) Thomas Blount (of Bromyard?) (d 1646-7)
  (i) John Blount of Bromyard (d 1678) had issue
  m. Joan Hardwick (dau of Roger Hardwick)
  (2) Richard Blount
  (3) Elizabeth Blount shown by Robinson a generation earlier
  m. S(imon) Barrington of Winesley
  b. George Blount of Kenswick
  m1. _ Blount (dau of Walter Blount of Astley)
  m2. Dorothy Hill (dau of Thomas Hill of Hill Court)
The following comes from Visitation (Worcestershire, 1634, Blount) & Visitation (Worcestershire, 1682, Blount of Hallow).
  (1) Francis Blount of Kenswick in Grimley (dvp)
  m. Alice D'Amory (dau/heir of Giles D'Amory of Codrington)
  (A) Giles Blount of Kenswick (a 1634)
  m. Frances Pigott (dau of Edmund Pigott of Buckinghamshire)
  (i) Robert Blount of Whitston (b c1619, a 1682, dsp?)
  m. Anne Cocks of Crowie (d c1674, sister of Sir John Cocks of Worcesteshire)
  (ii) George Blount of Hallow, Worcestershire
  m. Anne Russell
  (a) Giles Blount (d young)
  (iii)+ other issue - William of Hallow (dsp c1680), James (d young), Thomas of Powick (b c1626, a 1682, d unm?), Grace, Anne
(2)+ other issue - Thomas, Humphrey, Elizabeth, Judith
  c. Elizabeth Blount (dsp)
  m. William Berington or Beryton
m2. Dorothy Lovell (dau of (Sir) Francis Lovell)
  d. Henry Blount of Church Stretton (a 1623, dsp)
  m. Elizabeth Lisle (dau of Henry Lisle of Moxhall or Moxhull)
  ii. Katharine Blount
  m. Humphrey Lee of Morley
  iii.+ other issue (dsp) - William, Richard, Francis
2. Isabella Blount
  m. John Kryne or Keyne
3. Anne Blount
  m. Will Creighton or Geyton
4. Maria Blount
  m. Robert Pigott of Chetwynd, Sheriff of Shropshire (a 1517)
5. Ellena Blount
  m. John Cheney of Chesham Boys
6. Margaret Blount
  m. Richard Oteley
7.+ other issue - John, Edward/Edmund, William, Charles

Main source(s): Visitation (Shropshire, 1623, Blount), Robinson (Hereford, 'Blount of Eye, Grendon and Orleton', p250+) with a little support from notes within Commoners (vol 3, Childe of Kinlet)
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