William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy

Origins

Biography

Family

• Firstly, in about Easter 1497, to Elizabeth Saye, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Saye of Essenden, Hertfordshire, by whom he had a daughter:
• *Gertrude Blount, later a lady in waiting to Queen Mary I, who on 25 October 1519 married Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, KG, PC, the eldest son of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon by his wife Catherine of York, daughter of King Edward IV.
• Secondly, before the end of July 1509, Mountjoy married Inez de Venegas, one of the Spanish attendants of Catherine of Aragon while she was Princess of Wales.
• Thirdly, before February 1515, Mountjoy married Alice Keble, daughter of Henry Keble, Lord Mayor of London in 1510 and widow of Sir William Browne, Lord Mayor of London in 1513. She died in 1521 and was buried at the Greyfriars, London. By Alice he had children as follows:
• *Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy, eldest son and heir, like his father also a successful English courtier and patron of learning.
• *Catherine Blount, who married firstly Sir John Champernowne of Modbury, Devon, and secondly Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton, Somerset.
• Fourthly, before 29 July 1523, Mountjoy married Dorothy Grey and widow of Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke. Dorothy Grey was the sister of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquis of Dorset, grandfather of Lady Jane Grey Queen of Nine Days. Dorothy, Lady Mountjoy left a will proved 17 Nov. 1553. By Dorothy he had the following children, all second cousins to Lady Jane Grey:
• *John Blount
• *Mary Blount, who married Robert Dennis, Knt. of Holcombe Burnell in Devon.
• *Dorothy Blount, who married John Blewett, Esq. of Holcombe Rogus in Devon.