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  Name Suffix:<NSFX> Kg, Baron Mountjoy, Sir Knight
  Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 8XHV-X5
  BARONY OF MOUNTJOY (I)
  
  WALTER BLOUNT, son and heir, born circa 1420, "in the hundred of Appletree" [co. Derby], probably at Barton Blount. He was a Knight of the Shire for Derby 1447 and later to 1460. In 1449 he was bailiff for life of the wapentakes of Morleston and Litchurch, co. Derby, and J.P. (except from 1456-60). During the disturbances at the time of the King's insanity in 1454, he was under suspicion of taking part in plots, and indeed he became a Yorkist; but he was pardoned in December 1459, though deprived of his bailiwick. On 22 October 1460, a few days after Richard, Duke of York, asserted his title to the Crown and was in power, Blount was made treasurer of Calais, being continued in that office in 1461, and K.B. before the Coronation of Edward IV, 4 March 1460/1. In October of that year he was laying siege to the castle of Hammes, near Calais, and in July 1463 was a member of the embassy sent to meet the commissioners of the Duke of Burgundy at St. Omer. He was made Treasurer of England, 24 November 1464, and held the office for a little more than 15 months. On2O June 1465 he was created LORD MOUNTJOY (Dominus de Mountjoy), to him and the heirs male of his body, witb a fee of 20 marks, part from the town of Thurvaston and part from the profits of Derbyshire and Notts. In August 1467 he was one of the King's courtiers present in the inn of the Aichbishop of York when he surrendered the Great Seal to Edward IV. In 1468 he was allowed to ship wool free of customs in consideration of the large sum of money then due to him; and in the same year entered into articles to serve the King as Captain of the Army,with 60 men-at-arms and 2,940 archers, in his proposed expedition against France in aid of the Duke of Brittany, but the design being abandoned, he was againretained to serve with 1,000 men, 60 being men-at-arms, and shortly before April 1469 to serve at sea. When Edward IV was a prisoner in the hands of Warwick in August and September 1469, Mountjoy apparently was with him, for he returnedto London with the King in October. In April 1470 he and the Earl of Wiltshirewere empowered to receive the submission of rebels who had taken part in the Lincolnshire revolt in March. There does not appear to be any record of the parthe played during the short restoration (October 1470,to April 1471) of Henry VI, but his son William died of wounds received at the battle of Barnet, 14 April 1471, fighting for Edward IV. On 3 July 1471 Mountjoy took the oath of fidelity to the King's infant son Edward (born 4 November 1470) on his creation as Prince of Wales; and on 24 April 1472 he was nominated K.G. In February 1472/3 hewas a commissioner to inquire as to piratical attacks on Portuguese vessels, and in July was one of the King's Council present at the delivery of the Great Seat to Edward IV in the refectory of the Franciscan house at Stamford.
  
  He married, 1stly, in or before 1442, Ellen, daughter of Sir John BYRON, of Clayton,near Manchester. She was buried at Elvaston. He married, 2ndly, before 25 November 1467, Anne, widow of Humphrey (STAFFORD), DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (died 1460), and daughter of Ralph (NEVILLE), EARL OF WESTMORLAND, by Joan DE BEAUFORT, legitimated da. of John of Gaunt. He died 1 August 1474, and was buried in the chapel of the Apostles in the Church of the Grey Friars, London. His widow, by whomhe had no issue, and who continued to be known as Duchess of Buckingham, had dower assigned 11 March 1474/5. She died 20 September 1480, and was buried at Pleshey, Essex.  [Complete Peerage IX:334-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Details of Walter's family with Ellen (Helena) Byron

Details of Walter's family with Anne Neville