Sir John le Blount of Sodington 
John was born in 1298 in Sodington Hall, Mamble, Cleobury Mortimer, Worcestershire, England.1 John's father was Sir Walter Blount of The Rock and his mother was Johanna de Sodington. His paternal grandparents were William le Blount and Isabel de Beauchamp; his maternal grandparents were William de Sodington and <Unknown>. He had two brothers and a sister, named William, Walter and Alice. He was the second oldest of the four children. He died at the age of 59 in 1357 in Mamble, Cleobury Mortimer, Warwickshire, England.1 General Notes
[Jim Weber.ged]
Sir John Blount, of Sodington, Worcs, son of Sir Walter Blount, of The Rock, Worcs; married 1st Isolda, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Mountjoy, son and heir of Sir Ralph Mountjoy, and by her had issue. Sir John married 2nd Eleanor, daughter of John Beauchamp, and by her was ancestor of the Blounts, Lords Mountjoy. Sir John died 1357, his second son [was Sir John, the 1st son Richard dsp after 1359].
[Burke's Peerage]
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JOHN LE BLOUNT, 2nd son of Walter and Joan, was in 1324 a practised soldier belonging to Worcestershire. In 1337, being then a knight, he was found heir to his elder brother, William Blount [Lord Blount]. He was joint commissioner in Worcestershire in 1344, to inquire as to holders of land. He served in Gascony under Henry, Earl of Lancaster, and afterwards, 1347, under tile King at the siege of Calais, till Edward's return to England. In October 1350 he was undertaking a pilgrimage to Santiago. He married Isoude (i). He died in 1358.
[Complete Peerage IX:331, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(i) According to tradition, Isoude de Mountjoy. The mystery of her parentage has not been solved. The release by John le Blount in 1374 to his brother Walter of all his rights in the lands in Gayton, Yeldersley, Brushfield, etc., where were Mountjoy manors in the 13th and 14th centuries, suggests that a portion of the Mountjoy estates had descended by inheritance to John, then eldest surviving son of John le Blount and Isoude. It was a portion only, because (i) Gayton and Yeldersley, etc. descended, throught the marriage of Isoude (daughter and heir of Serle de Mountjoy, son and heir of Ralph de Mountjoy) to Robert de Ireland; the family of Ireland were still holding temp. Henry VII; (ii) the receipt given by Madam Wake in 1359 for evidences belonging to Richard Blount, the young heir of John and Isoude, refers to vint oyt feetes en un boist del heritage la mere le dit Richard et ses parceners des tenements en le Pek, etc.
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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.1139 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England
- b.1166 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England d.1235
- b.1145
- b.1197 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England d.1288
- b.1149 d.1216
- b.1170
<Unknown>
- b.1230 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England d.1316 in Timberlake, Worcestershire, England
- b.1202 in Belton, Rutland, England
- b.1270 in Rock, Worcestershire, England d.1316 in Stringston, Somersetshire, England
- b.1180 in Elmley, England d.1236
- b.1210 in Elmley Castle, Worchestershire, England d.07 Jan 1268
- b.1195 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.1268
- b.1237 in Elmley Castle, Herefordshire, England d.05 Jun 1298 in Elmley Castle, Herefordshire, England
- b.1196 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England d.Apr 1257 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1214 d.1268
- b.1196 in England d.1246
- b.1252 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.30 May 1306 in Elmley Castle, Herefordshire, England
- b.1162 in Walden, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.1215 in Shere, England d.23 Nov 1258
- b.1172 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.04 Jun 1225
- b.1250 in Bernard Castle, Warwickshire, England d.18 Apr 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England
- b.1170 d.Feb 1224
- b.1222 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.1239
- b.1192 in Pembroke, Wales, England d.27 Mar 1248
- b.1298 in Sodington Hall, Mamble, Cleobury Mortimer, Worcestershire, England d.1357 in Mamble, Cleobury Mortimer, Warwickshire, England
- b.1250
- b.1274 in Sodington, Worcestershire, England d.1331 in Stringston, Somersetshire, England
<Unknown>
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Details of John's family with Eleanor Beauchamp
Details of John's family with Isolda de Mountjoy
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=john_d_newport&id=I21419&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=john_d_newport&id=I43035, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dblocher&id=I117499
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=john_d_newport&id=I43035, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dblocher&id=I117499
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