196 BLOUNT BLOUNTC) BARONY BY i. Sir William le Blount, of Sodington, co. Wor- WRIT. cester, s. of Sir Walter le Blount, of Rock, in that co., T by his 2nd wife, Joan (to whom he was h.), sister and coh. •^■^ of William Sodington, and da. of Ralph S., both of Sodington, afsd.C') He was sum. cum equis el armis 5 Apr. ■^■^ (1327) I Edw. Ill to 27 Mar. (1335) 9 Edw. Ill, to Pari, from 25 Jan. (1329/30) 4 Edw. Ill to 14 Jan. (1336/7) 10 Edw. Ill, and to Councils from 24 Aug. (1336) 10 Edw. Ill to 18 Aug. (^337) II Edw. Ill, by writs directed Willelmo le Blount {Blount or le Blunt), by which summonses to Pari, he may be held to have become LORD BLOUNT.C^) He m., before 20 Feb. 1326/7, Margery, 3rd da. and coh. of Sir Theobald de Verdon, of Alton, co. Stafford [Lord Verdon], by his 1st wife, Maud, da. of Sir Edmund de Mortimer, of Wigmore, co. Hereford. He and his wife had livery of her lands, 30 Oct. 1328 and 26 Mar. I332.() He d. s.p. shortly before 3 Oct. 1337,(0 when any Barony, that may be supposed to have been cr. by the writ of 1330, became extinct. His widow, who was b. 10 Aug. 13 10, at Alton, afsd., and bap. there the same day,(') inherited Weobley Castle, co. Hereford, &'c., of which she (again) had livery, 15 Dec. I337.(^) She m., before 18 Oct. i339,() Sir Mark Husee. They had livery of her lands, i Mar. 1343/4.(8) He d. before 21 July 1349. (') She w., 3rdly, before 10 Sep. 1355, C") as 1st wife,(^) Sir John Crophull, of Bonnington, co. Notts. He d. 3 July 1383.(0 (^) This article has been kindly contributed by G. W. Watson. C*) Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. i, p. 146; Nash, IForcatershire, vol. ii, p. 163, c; cf. Close Roll, 33 Edw. I, m. 10, among the subtenants of Mortimer of Wigmore. ("=) As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact cr. any Peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. V.G. (d) Close Rolls, 2 Edw. Ill, w. 1 1 ; 6 Edw. Ill, m. 30. C") " Willelmus le Blount." Writ of diem cl. ext. 3 Oct. 1 1 Edw. III. Inq., cos. Hereford, Stafford, 16 Oct., 20 Nov. 1337. " Johannes le Blount frater predict! Wil- lelmi est heres ejus propinquior et etatis xxx annorum." (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, flic 50, no. 26). (') " Margeria una filiarum et heredum Theobald! de Verdon quam Willelmus le Blount duxit in uxorem." Writ de etate probanda 20 ¥e.h. I Edw. ill. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 8, no. 3). (8) Close Rolls, II Edw. Ill, pars 2, ni. 8; 18 Edw. Ill, pars I, mm. 27d, 26. C') Patent Rolls, 13 Edw. Ill, pars 2, m. 19; 29 Edw. Ill, pars 2, m. 6. (■) See " Husee." (^) "Johannes de Crophull chivaler." Writs oi diem cl.ext. 16 July 7 Ric. II. Inq., cos. Hereford, Leicester, Notts, Lincoln, i, 5, 12, 13 Aug., 8 Sep. 1383. " Et dicunt quod obiit die veneris proxima post festum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli [aliter tertio die Julii] ultimo preteritum." (Ch. Inq. p. m., Ric. II, file 31, no. 23).
