Alice BLOUNT

Sir married Elizabeth DE FURNEAUX about 1350. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Symon DE FURNEAUX and Alice DE UMFRAVILLE) was born in 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth is the daughter of Sir Symon de Furneaux of Ashington, widow of Sir John Blout. She was very wealthy and ninth generation in direct line from Odo de Fornell b. about 1040 in Normandy who came to England with William the Conqueror.

Excerpt from "Lineage of the Rogers Families - England": sole heiress of her father; m. twice; First ab. 1350, Sir John Blount, Knt., Constable of the Tower, by whom she had issue of a dau. Alice, b. possibly as early as 1351. Sir John d. abt. 1384, leaving an attractive and wealthy widow, whose inherited large estates amounted to eight Knights' feees and a quarter; and in her widowhood - 8 Richd. II (1385), she founded a Chantry in the 'Abbey of Athelney' for two chaplains to say mass daily (except Good-Friday), for the good estate of herself - the Lady Elizabeth; the Lady Alice Stafford (her daughter), and other friends & Benefactors of herself; and for the souls of Sir John Blount, Sir Symon de Furneaux and Alice his wife, for Sir Henry de Umfraville and Isabel his wife, for many others by name, and for all of her friends and benefactors deceased - annual orbits to be kept of all the persons she names. Her dau. Lady Alice Blount, m. twoce; First, Sir Richard Stafford, Knt,; secondly, Sir Richard Stury, Knt., ..
The wid. Dame Elizabeth (Furneaux) Flount, having thus comforted her conscience with regard to her deceased husband, relatives and friends; still in her mature healath, appearance & worldly prosperity, was open for consolation - therefor, abt. 1385/6, she consented to a 2d. matromonial alliance, and m. John Fitz Roger, Gent.; and became the patriarchal mother of the later, distinguished Roger-Furneaux family of England. This man & woman werre approximately the same age, though the groom may have been a few yrs. younger than this bride.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: was a Knight

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Excerpt from "Lineage of the Rogers Families - england: executor of and heir by entail, to his father; m. ab 1327 Alice, dau. of Sir Henry de Umfraville of Penarth Point, Co. Glamorgan, Wales, on the Bristol Channel. He was one of the principal land owners of his county, and d. withut surviving male issue. He recd. his numerous inherited estates on the death of his father 1316, acquired Strington; and Lapford in No. Devon, came to him by his wife, 1327-8.... He was returned as Man-at-Arms in 1324, summoned to military service in 1325 & again in 1335; was Commissioner of Array in Somerset in 1325 & 1326, deputized to certify as to those to receive Knighthood; and in 1325 & 1327 was charged with the custody of Bridgewater Castle. He was Knight of the Shire of Somerset, in the Parliament of 2 Edwd. III (1328), summoned to Northampton; and in the Parliament of 18 Edwd. III, (1344), summoned to Westminster; and his arms as recorded were "Gules, a bend betw. six crosses-crosslet, or; which are still preserved on some encaustic tiles in 'Cleve Abbey' - where he and his Father were benefactors - to which, later heraldic authorities add a crest. The ensignia & colors displayed by father & son were practicaly identical. He was witness to important state papers in 1327 and again in 1342. He made provision for five chaplains to clebrate mass daily in 'Kilve Church,' for the souls of himself & his heirs, of his father & gr. father, his wife & her father. His only son William, b. 1328 d. in his lifetime; so the vast Furneaux estates mainly passed to heirs female - a daughter & his sisters.

Symon married Alice DE UMFRAVILLE about 1327. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]