Regarding my question about Issac Komnenos being the father of Pedro of Spain:

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Regarding the issue of whether or not Isaac Komnenos is the father of Pedro Comnenos, a response from David Hughey was made that he had doubts whether Sancha de Ayala married an english nobel.  Although I'm not a historian, there seems to be some  documents that say otherwise.  Sancha married Sir Walter Blount, son of John le Blount and Isolda Montjoy.  One being:

http://spiral.byu.edu/~smithw/venema-gerstner/index.html#CNTC

Another: Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, under 'Constance Blount'

Another:  The following is from Sir Bernard Burke's "A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" (1883, Harrison, London). This book is in the public domain

__SIR WALTER BLOUNT, so celebrated for his martial prowess in [p. 55] the warlike times of EDWARD III., RICHARD II., and HENRY IV., and immortalized by the muse of Shakespeare for his devotion, even unto death, to King HENRY. Sir Walter fell at the battle of Shrewsbury, 22 June, 1403, wherein, being standard bearer, he was arrayed in the same armour as his royal master, and was slain, according to the poet, in single combat, by the Earl of Douglas, who had supposed he was contending with the king himself.

In 1367 we find Sir Walter accompanying the BLACK PRINCE and his brother, the DUKE OF LANCASTER (John of Gaunt), upon the expedition into Spain to aid PETER THE CRUEL, King of Castile, and assisting on 3 April in that year at the battle of Najore, which restored PETER to his throne. Thenceforward for a seris of years, indeed until the prince's decease, he appears to have been immediately and confidentially attached to the duke, having chosen his wife, whom he m. about the year 1372, from amongst the ladies in the suite of CONSTANTIA OF CASTILE (eldest dau. of PETER, and his successor on the throne, who became the royal consort of JOHN OF GAUNT) when the princess visited England in 1369. In 1398 the duke granted 100 marks a year to Sir Walter for the good services which had been rendered to him by the knight and his wife, the Lady Sancia. The Lady Sancia's maiden designation was DONNA SANCHA DE AYALA; she was the dau. of DON DIEGO GOMEZ DE TOLEDO, alcalde mayor and chief justice of Toledo, and notario mayor or principal secretary of the kingdom of Castile, by his wife, Inez Alfon DE AYALA, one of the most ancient and illustrious houses in Spain. JOHN OF GAUNT, at his decease, appointed Sir Walter one of his executors, and bequeathed him a legacy of 100 points, £66 6s. 8d.

And this one, I believe it's fromMarilyn Lewis, not sure who she is. 

In 1371, doña Constanza of Aragón [nope, Castille] (daughter of Pedro I, 'the Cruel') came to England to marry John of Gaunt, younger son of King Edward III. (We are descended from John, but not via this wife.) Costanza brought an entourage with her, including some noble ladies-in-waiting; Sancha was one of these, and she soon met and fell in love with Walter Blount (c1350-1403), a knight from a very minor family. (But it's also possible she had met him before; Sir Walter had accompanied Gaunt to Castile in 1367, on a military campaign to help King Pedro against a usurper. She would have been less then ten years old then, however.) As they married and raised a family, they remained close to John of Gaunt, who granted them an annuity, confirmed some years later by King Richard II (Gaunt's nephew). Sancha appears in various records over some thirty years; she was a close friend of Geoffrey Chaucer and his family, and Gaunt mentions her in one document as "nostre tres chere compaigne," our very dear companion or attendant. Gaunt died in 1399 (Blount was one of his executors), but as his son soon became King Henry IV, Walter and Sancha were still in favor at court. However, Blount was killed by the Scottish Earl Douglas at the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. (He was wearing the king's colors, and Douglas thought he was Henry IV. Shakespeare mentions him in Henry IV part I.) Sancha lived until 1418. She dedicated herself to religious and charitable works, founding chantries and hospitals.

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I never said that Sancha didn't marry Sir Walter Blount, but I did say that Isaak Komnenos was not the father of Pedro.

Anonymous perverted my words.  The documentation is there for the marriage of Sir Walter and Sancha.  What's missing is the documentation for a father/son connection between Isaak and Pedro. 

I don't know why Anonymous blamed me for something I never said.  He had asked the question whether I believed Pedro was the son of Isaak and I told him no.  He never asked me about Sir Walter and Sancha.

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I never said that Sancha didn't marry Sir Walter Blount. I said that I doubted that Isaak Komnenos was the father of Pedro Comnenos.  As far as I know, Pedro was the beginning of her family.

 

David V. Hughey

a descendant of Sancha and Sir Walter
by David Hughey G2G Astronaut (1.7m points)
selected by Susan Laursen

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