MOUNTJOY. 401 Peuelope,( n ) who had obtained an ecclesiastical divorce (a mcnsa ct thoro) 15 Nov. 1005, from Robert (Rich), Lord Rich (afterwards, in 1018, cr. Karl of Warwick),' da. of Walter (I)KVKBErx), 1st Karl OF ESSEX, by Lettice, da. of Sir Francis Knom.ys, K.G. He did not, however, long survive this incident, but d. s.p. legit., (>>) 3 April 1006, at Savoy House, in the Strand, of inflammation of the limps, aged 43. At his death all his honours became extinct.^) Will dat. 2 April and pr. 3 June 1000. The lady is said to have d. the next year. MOUNTJOY OF MOUNTJOY FORT [Ireland] and MOUNTJOY OF TIIURVESTON [England]. Barony [I.], j, MocSTJOT Blountt, eldest of the three illegifc, I. IG18. sonsC') of Charles (Blount), Karl of Devonshire and Baron Mnr.vr.iOY, by Penelope, da. of Walter (Deyeueux), 1st Karl of Barony [E.J, Essex, abovenamed, was b. about 1597; sue. to Wanstead, eo. t , p 0 - Kssex and other portions of his Father's estates on his death (s.n.
- • 1U "'- legit) 3 April 1000 and was cr, 31Jan. 1G17/S, LORD MOUNT-
JOY, BARON OF MOUNTJOY FORT.('>)co.Tvrone (I.], being, some ten years later, W. 5 June 1627, BARON MOUNTJOY OF THURVESTON, cn. Derby, with a special clause of precedency ( e ) over nil Barons (the all being, however, but two, i.e., Fauconberg and Lovelace) cr. since 20 May last. This precedence however was on 24 April 1023 reported against by the Lords' committee for privileges ( f ) Accordingly the King cr. the grantee, 3 Aug. 1C2S. EARL OF NEWPORT in the Isle of Wight. See that title, which, with this Barony, became extinct in 1081. (») This prolific lady, b. in 1500, was in 1580 m. '• against her will to Lord Rich," and between that date "anil the spring of 1583 when [Sir Philip] Sidney himself married, was guilty of a criminal intimacy with [him] her former lover. A few years after Sidney's death, in 15S0, Mount joy appears to have sue. to his place in Lady Rich's affections. By her husband she had seven children but after 1590 she became Mountjoy's mistress and bore him three sons and two daughters." [Xat. Iliog.] ( b ) The names of the (bastard) children of the Karl of Devonshire are given in his will dat. 2 April 1000 (in which is also mentioned the child his wife now "goeth with ") in the following order (1) Mountjoy (2) St. Johns (3) Charles (1) Penelope and (5) Isabella. They are also mentioned in a scarce ami frequently cancelled page (p. 493) in Milles's '" Catalogue of Honour" (folio 1,010) where it is stated that the Karl (/. 1000 " without any issue lawfully begotten. Natural! children which he had by Penelope, da. to Walter Devereux, Earle of Essex, and sister to Robert, Earle of Kssex, she being wife to Hubert, Baron Rich [1] Charles [2] Montjoy [3] Saiut Johns [ I] Elizabeth ami [5] another daughter." { c ) A claim to the Barony of Mountjoy (presumably as heir male collateral) is said to have been made in 1000 by the family of Blount, of Mapledurham, Oxou, as descendants of Sir Thomas Blount, yr. br. of the 1st Baron Mountjoy. (<*J Mountjoy Fort had been erected by his Father when Chief Governor of Ireland. (°) " Quod prrcdictos Baro Mountjoy et heredes sui masculi pnedicti de cet'o impertuum habebunt capient ct tenebunt iu omnibus loeis et omni de causa, locum et precedentiam pne omnibus aliis baronibus quibuscunque hujus regui nostri Anglite per dob post vicesimum diem Maii jam ultimum praterittuu fastis sive creatis alhpio in presentibus contento, ant aliqua alia re causa vel materia qnacunque in contrarium in aliqao, non obstante." [See " Creations, 1483—1646 " in ap. 47th Sep. D. K. Pub. Records]. ( r ) See account of this and similar proceedings, as to the precedency of Peers in Pari, by royal warrant, iu vol. i, p. 229 note " a," sub " Banbury." 2 C
