 Abt 1502 - 1564 (~ 62 years)
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| Name |
Blount, Richard |
| Title |
Sir |
| Born |
Abt 1502 |
Of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
11 Aug 1564 |
St Peter ad Vincula, London, England |
| Person ID |
I00219 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
21 Feb 2015 |
| Father |
Blount, Richard, b. Abt 1465, Of Lincolnshire, England , bur. 30 Nov 1506, Iver, Buckinghamshire, England (Age ~ 41 years) |
| Mother |
Forde, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1480, Of Iver, Buckinghamshire, England , d. 1554, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, England (Age ~ 74 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1494 |
England |
| Family ID |
F00128 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Lister, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1510, England , d. 1582, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England (Age ~ 72 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1529 |
England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Blount, Michael, b. Abt 1529, Of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England , bur. 11 Nov 1609, St Peter ad Vincula, London, England (Age ~ 80 years) |
| + | 2. Blount, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1531, Of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England , bur. 11 Aug 1587, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 56 years) |
| + | 3. Blount, Barbara, b. Abt 1533, Of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England , bur. 28 Feb 1563/64, West Grinstead, Sussex, England (Age ~ 31 years) |
| | 4. Blount, Richard, b. Abt 1545, Of Dedisham, Sussex, England , bur. 4 Apr 1628, Dedisham, Sussex, England (Age ~ 83 years) |
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| Family ID |
F00125 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Will of Sir Richard Blounte of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire Date 26 August 1564 Catalogue reference PROB 11/47
His son Sir Richard (d.1564) who married Elizabeth Lister, daughter of the Lord Chief Justice, succeeded him; in 1558 he was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London, a post also held by his son Sir Michael (d.1610) (pictured left). Father and son lie beneath a splendid tomb in the Chapel Royal in the Tower.
http://www.mapledurham.co.uk/history/manorhouse/
Sir Richard Blount, of Maple Durham Gurney, was one of the gentlemen of the chamber to King Henry VIII. of the Privy chamber to Edward VI. and held various offices of trust under Elizabeth, amongst others that of lieutenant of the Tower. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Lister, chief-justice of England, and sister of Sir Michael Lister,* knight of the Bath, by which lady he had issue, Michael (Sir), his successor. Richard (Sir), who resided at Dodsham or Dysliam, in Sussex. He m. the Hon. Elizabeth West, second daughter of William, first Lord De la Warre, by whom (who d. in 1595) he had a son, William. Elizabeth, m. to Nicholas St. John, of Lidiard Tregoze, ancestor of the Viscounts Bolingbroke. Barbara, m. to Francis Shirley, of East Grinstead, in Sussex. Sir Richard d. 11th August, 1564, was buried under a splendid monument in the church of St. Peter in Vinculis, in the Tower, erected ^by his widow (whose will was proved 26th June, 1582), and t. by his elder son,
Tv! Elizabeth, i both died voun8v. Frances, b. 23rd February, 1569. vi. Elizabeth, b. 28th July, 1574. The date of the decease of Sir Michael Blount is not upon record. He was buried under a sumptuous monument near his father, in St. Peter's Church, in the Tower, and *. by his eldest son,
Mapledurham is fine, red-brick late-16th century manor house set at the edge of the village and close to the River Thames. In the late Middle Ages the Mapledurham estate passed from the Bardolf family to the Lyndes. A large part of Lyndes' timber-framed house was retained when Sir Michael Blount built the present, far larger, house in 1588.
Sir Michael was Lieutenant of the Tower of London whose grandfather, Richard Blount, had purchased the estate in 1490. The Blount family were Catholic recusants and in the 17th and early 18th centuries the estate suffered a decline. However, the family fortunes had recovered by the 19th century and in 1828 - 31 Michael Henry Blount restored the exterior in Elizabethan style and created new interiors.
In the 20th century the direct line of the Blount family died out and in 1943 the Mapledurham estate passed by descent to the current owner, a member of one of the county's oldest Catholic families. Today the house is run by the Mapledurham Trust.
The Elizabethan house, set on sweeping lawns, is H-shaped with attractive brickwork and tall chimneys. The picturesque remains of the Lynde family's medieval house provide a great contrast to the rather severe 16th century building that replaced it.
Although at first glance Mapledurham appears to be an unaltered example of late-16th century domestic architecture there have been several alterations. In the 18th century the chimneys were rearranged and the original gables removed.
The neo-Tudor porch was added in the 1820s and at the same time the brickwork of the entrance front was restored and the windows returned to their original mullioned and transomed appearance.
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In a Court Roll of 1545 (5M53/932) the Court Minutes the Manor of Husseys is listed with many others in a marriage settlement between Mary Wriothesley and Sir Richard Lyster, Chief Baron of the King’s Exchequer who held this manor for a further ten years when on the 21st. day of December in the second and third years of the reigns of the late King and Queen (Philip and Mary, 1555), he sold Husseys to John Gifford of Northall (Northolt) in the County of Middlesex.
The Earl of Southampton seems to have had his full pardon by that time. His mother had long been failing and was now very ill; she lived over six months after.
P.C.C., Martyn 43
Her will was drawn up on 1st July, I574* and she died not long afterwards; the will was proved on 26th July. She left certain leases to her son, Henry, Earl of Southampton, failing whom to his son, Lord Harry Wriothesley, failing whom to the Lady Mary Wriothesley, failing whom to her own daughters. Her household stuff was to go in the same way. She left liberal shares of her cattle and sheep to her son-in-law, Cornwallys, and his wife Katharine, the rest to her son. Certain leases were left directly to her grandson, failing whom to his sister Mary. Her own daughter, Mabel, was to have for life Longlands and Gravelpits, lately parcel of the possessions of the monastery of Clerkenwell, after her to Robert Cornwallys, her daughter's son. One hundred pounds' worth of plate was left to each of her daughters, 100 marks' worth to Lord Harry Wriothesley, and the same to Lady Mary. To my son the Earl all my stuff in Southampton Place, Holborn, my best crosse of gold set with diamonds on one side and enamelled with green and red on the other, with a faire pearl hanging at it. A faire tablet of golde wherein is the picture of my Lord his father's face, weighing about ^\ ounces, also my great flaggon chayne that I was wont to weare about my middle for a girdle, weighing 12 ounces.... To my Lady Southampton, my son's wife, a Browche with an Agate and 7 little rubyes, with the picture of a face upon the Agatt; also a girdle of gold, with roses black and white enamelled, and wheatsheaves enamelled. . . .To my daughter Katharine my best booke of gold, set with 4 diamonds and a ruby in the midst on one side, and 4 rubyes with a diamond in the midst on the other side, and the Queen's writing in the same book; also my wrethed long girdle of gold with black enamel ; and a short girdle of perles with little perles of gold enamelled in black, a brooch of gold with a saphire in it, and a Storye, also a cheyne of fine golde. To my daughter Mabel my best brooche which hath 10 diamonds in it and a ruby at the foot of the Storye; also a gold booke with a black knot inamelled and two scallop shells; a chain of gold inamelled black and white; a long girdle of gold, another with pillars inamelled red and white and black, the links playne and wrethed, and a cross of gold, with a crucifix sett with 2 diamonds and a perle pendent, with another chayne. To my son's daughter, the Lady Mary, my best flower of gold set with 2 rubyes, 2 emeralds, and 3 perles pendent, a tablet of gold with an old storey in it, a pair of beads without Amell, and a tablet hanging at them, inamelled ; a browche of gold with 2 little rubyes in it. These jewels to her at her marriage. If she dye, to her brother the Lord Harry, if he die too, to my daughters. All my perles to my daughters. . . . To my daughter Cornwallys a pair of Tennes, with red currall richly dressed with lyly pottes enamelled with words graven on them. To my daughter Mabel another payre of tennes in gold and jewels and one of my diamond rings to each . All the rest of my rings to my son .... To Robert Cornwallys my daughter's son 40, to , weight to Michael Lyster my daughter Mary Lyster's son, a gilt bowl 32 ounce weight. To her daughter Mabel she left 500 if she marries within three years, or 300 if she marries later, the 200 to go to her son's daughter. She prayed her son to be good to his sisters, to her servants, farmers, and tenants. She left to Andrew Mundaye, her servant, 10, and a year's wages to all her servants. To the poor of Titchfield and Holborn near London she left 60. 13-r. 4^. Her son Henry to be sole executor; overseers, Mr Justice Manwood and Mr Baver of Lincoln's Inn, who are to have .10 a year for their trouble.
Her son buried her at Titchfield, but I have found no account of the proceedings. Beyond his legacies, the Earl would step into her jointures and dwelling-houses, and his position in the county would be strengthened.
Montague's son in law, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, died 4 Oct 1581 and was buried at Titchfield, Hants, on 30 Nov
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Text: 1575 Blunt, Richard, esquier, St. Stephen's in Colmeyne strete in the cytie of London; Stafford; Williton, Somerset 47 Pyckering Book: 1558 to 1583. Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1558-1583 (A-Z)
Text: 1587 Blounte, Blunt, Richarde, gent., Barnards Inne, St. Andrewe in Holborne, Middx. Will with Sentence 41 Spencer Book: 1584 to 1604. Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1584-1604
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