Lord Montjoy, High Treasurer, Steward of the High Peak in Derbyshire, Treasurer of Calais,
Eldest son of Sir Thomas Blount and Margery Gresley. Grandson of Sir Walter Blount and Sancha de Ayala, great grandson of Sir Thomas de Mountjoy.
Husband of Helena Byron and father of six; Sir William, John, James, Edward, Anne, Elizabeth.
Secondly, husband of Ann Neville, widow of Sir Humphrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham.
Sir Walter was made a Knight of the Garter in 1472.
On his death, his title went to his grandson, Edward, whose father, Sir William, had been killed at the Battle of Barnet in 1471.
"Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy. To be buried at "Grey Freres." Bequeathed "a cope of crymesyn cloath of golde, a chesible and two tunycles of the same suyt, wrought with myn armes, with all the apperell belonging to the same suyt." The bones of his son William were to be taken out of the place where he lies and laid on the left side of his tomb, and "oon tombe to serve us both."
Will dated 8 July, 1474. Proved 10 Feb. [1474–5]. (fn. 1) 18 Wattys.
¶Lord Mountjoy lay in a great raised tomb of alabaster under the window on the south of the Altar in the Apostles Chapel. According to the Register his grandson, Edward Blount, lay on his left in the same tomb. William Blount lay in the same place at the head of his father's tomb. Grey Friars, pp. 88–9."
Contributor: Todd Whitesides (47553735)
Eldest son of Sir Thomas Blount and Margery Gresley. Grandson of Sir Walter Blount and Sancha de Ayala, great grandson of Sir Thomas de Mountjoy.
Husband of Helena Byron and father of six; Sir William, John, James, Edward, Anne, Elizabeth.
Secondly, husband of Ann Neville, widow of Sir Humphrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham.
Sir Walter was made a Knight of the Garter in 1472.
On his death, his title went to his grandson, Edward, whose father, Sir William, had been killed at the Battle of Barnet in 1471.
"Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy. To be buried at "Grey Freres." Bequeathed "a cope of crymesyn cloath of golde, a chesible and two tunycles of the same suyt, wrought with myn armes, with all the apperell belonging to the same suyt." The bones of his son William were to be taken out of the place where he lies and laid on the left side of his tomb, and "oon tombe to serve us both."
Will dated 8 July, 1474. Proved 10 Feb. [1474–5]. (fn. 1) 18 Wattys.
¶Lord Mountjoy lay in a great raised tomb of alabaster under the window on the south of the Altar in the Apostles Chapel. According to the Register his grandson, Edward Blount, lay on his left in the same tomb. William Blount lay in the same place at the head of his father's tomb. Grey Friars, pp. 88–9."
Contributor: Todd Whitesides (47553735)
Lord Montjoy, High Treasurer, Steward of the High Peak in Derbyshire, Treasurer of Calais,
Eldest son of Sir Thomas Blount and Margery Gresley. Grandson of Sir Walter Blount and Sancha de Ayala, great grandson of Sir Thomas de Mountjoy.
Husband of Helena Byron and father of six; Sir William, John, James, Edward, Anne, Elizabeth.
Secondly, husband of Ann Neville, widow of Sir Humphrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham.
Sir Walter was made a Knight of the Garter in 1472.
On his death, his title went to his grandson, Edward, whose father, Sir William, had been killed at the Battle of Barnet in 1471.
"Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy. To be buried at "Grey Freres." Bequeathed "a cope of crymesyn cloath of golde, a chesible and two tunycles of the same suyt, wrought with myn armes, with all the apperell belonging to the same suyt." The bones of his son William were to be taken out of the place where he lies and laid on the left side of his tomb, and "oon tombe to serve us both."
Will dated 8 July, 1474. Proved 10 Feb. [1474–5]. (fn. 1) 18 Wattys.
¶Lord Mountjoy lay in a great raised tomb of alabaster under the window on the south of the Altar in the Apostles Chapel. According to the Register his grandson, Edward Blount, lay on his left in the same tomb. William Blount lay in the same place at the head of his father's tomb. Grey Friars, pp. 88–9."
Contributor: Todd Whitesides (47553735)
Eldest son of Sir Thomas Blount and Margery Gresley. Grandson of Sir Walter Blount and Sancha de Ayala, great grandson of Sir Thomas de Mountjoy.
Husband of Helena Byron and father of six; Sir William, John, James, Edward, Anne, Elizabeth.
Secondly, husband of Ann Neville, widow of Sir Humphrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham.
Sir Walter was made a Knight of the Garter in 1472.
On his death, his title went to his grandson, Edward, whose father, Sir William, had been killed at the Battle of Barnet in 1471.
"Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy. To be buried at "Grey Freres." Bequeathed "a cope of crymesyn cloath of golde, a chesible and two tunycles of the same suyt, wrought with myn armes, with all the apperell belonging to the same suyt." The bones of his son William were to be taken out of the place where he lies and laid on the left side of his tomb, and "oon tombe to serve us both."
Will dated 8 July, 1474. Proved 10 Feb. [1474–5]. (fn. 1) 18 Wattys.
¶Lord Mountjoy lay in a great raised tomb of alabaster under the window on the south of the Altar in the Apostles Chapel. According to the Register his grandson, Edward Blount, lay on his left in the same tomb. William Blount lay in the same place at the head of his father's tomb. Grey Friars, pp. 88–9."
Contributor: Todd Whitesides (47553735)
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