 Abt 1504 -
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| Name |
Blount, Elizabeth |
| Born |
Abt 1504 |
Of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Person ID |
I04217 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
20 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 2 |
Woodford, Thomas, b. Abt 1495, Of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England , d. Aft 1544 (Age ~ 50 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1520 |
England |
| Children |
| | 1. Woodforde, Gamaliell, b. Abt 1535, England , bur. 18 Sep 1616, St George the Martyr, Newington, Surrey, England (Age ~ 81 years) |
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| Last Modified |
21 Jun 2015 |
| Family ID |
F03586 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- There is evidence that even as a boy Thomas Woodford had an interest in literature, poetry and chivalry.
On his death in 1507 Richard Blount of Iver, Buckinghamshire, whose daughter Elizabeth Thomas was to marry in c 1520, bequeathed to ‘Maister Wodeforthe … iij bookes in frensh of frossautt’. Jean Froissart's chronicles and poetry were enormously popular, but it is still a noteworthy bequest to a young man, still probably little more than ten years old.
The lawyer Richard Blount provides another connection for the Woodfords with Thomas More. He was a prominent member of Lincoln's Inn at the time that More was admitted in 1496. Thomas More's father John was also a senior member of the Inn...
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