Mountjoy Blount
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Mountjoy Blount (1597 - 1666)

Mountjoy "Earl of Newport" Blount
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Husband of — married about Feb 1626 [location unknown]
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Died at about age 69 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, Englandmap
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Biography

Mountjoy was born in 1597, the eldest of three illegitimate sons of Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire, with Penelope Devereaux, daughter of Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex.

He became the 1st Earl of Newport.

He died in Oxford on 12th February 1666, and is buried in the South aisle of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.[1][2]

When the Civil War broke out, Newport served in the royalist army, and took part in the second battle of Newbury in 1644. In January 1646 he was taken prisoner and confined in London on parole. He had on 7 February 1626 married Ann Boteler, daughter of John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Bramfield, by whom he had eight children:[5][6]

Charles Blount (bur. 23 April 1631) Lady Henrietta Maria Blount (bapt. 16 September 1632 – bur. 1 April 1634) Charles Blount, Lord Blount (bapt. 10 January 1634), died young Lady Isabella Blount, married Nicholas Knollys and had issue Lady Anne Blount (1637–?), married Maj. Thomas Porter and had issue Mountjoy Blount, 2nd Earl of Newport (bur. 20 March 1675), called by some sources George Thomas Blount, 3rd Earl of Newport (bur. 4 May 1675) Henry Blount, 4th Earl of Newport (bur. 25 September 1679)


Sources

  1. Smith, David L. "Blount, Mountjoy, first earl of Newport (c. 1597–1666), courtier and politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 24 May. 2022. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-2692.
  2. Find A Grave: Memorial #65556170

See also:

  • THE PEERAGE 74331
  • Stirnet porter 1
  • SURVEY OF LONDON, Vols. 33 & 34 (1966)
  • Crickett Lucero, firsthand knowledge.




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