Robert Le Blount 
Robert was born about 1046 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England. Robert's father was 3rd Count Of Guînes Rodolph and his mother was Rosetta De St Pol. His paternal grandparents were 2nd Count Of Guînes Adolphus and Mahaut Of Boulogne. He was an only child.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> 1st Lord Of Ixworth, Kt.
Sir Robert le Blount had the command of the Conqueror's ships of war and is styled "Dux Navium Militarium." His portion of the spolia opima embraced thirteen manors in Suffolk, in which county he was the 1st feudal Baron of Ixworth (the place of his residence), and Lord of Orford Castle. He m. Gundreda, youngest dau. of Henry, Earl Ferrers, and had a son and heir, Gilbert le Blount. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1884, p. 54, Blount, Barons Mountjoy and Earl of Devon]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0876
- b.~ 0906
- b.~ 0936 d.0956
- b.Bet 863 and 865 in Flanders, Normandy, France d.2 Jan 916-917
- b.Bet 885 and 890 d.27 Mar 964
- d.7 Jun 929 in Flanders, France
- b.~ 0936 in Flanders
- b.~ 0885 d.23 Feb 941-942
- b.~ 0915 d.Bet 958 and 960
- b.~ 0887 d.Aft Mar 929-30
- b.~ 0990 in Picardy, France d.30 May 1036 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.~ 1046 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England
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They had a son named Gilbert.
Family Notes
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