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Isabel married the father of this John Blount by marriage settlement dated 1408.
The wife of this John Blount [1411-1478] was Catherine Corbett; marriage settlement dated 1447
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To proceed with the Blounts of Sodington. John Blount, the
eldest son of Sir John Blount and Juliana Foulhurst, married Isabel, the
daughter of Dame Joanna Fouleshurst, as appears by the settlement made
in the tenth of Henry the Fourth, 1408. This was an indenture made
between Sir John Blount the elder, and Dame Johanna Fouleshurst, by
which it was agreed that John Blount, the eldest son and heir of Sir John,
shall marry Isabel, the daughter of the said Dame ; that the said Dame
shall pay twenty marks at the time of the marriage, and forty pounds, and
Sir John shall enfeoft his son and Isabella with his manor of Uttekeshather,
or Uteskefather, called Blount's Place, with other lands, except the parke,
&c, called Blount's Parkek. He died before his father
Their son and heir, John Blount, Esquire, married Catherine, youngest
daughter and co-heir of Thomas Corbet, Esquire, of Stanford in Shropshire.
The settlement is dated on the Wednesday after Saint Barnaby's day, in
the twenty-sixth year of Henry the Sixth, 1447, between Thomas Corbet
and John Blount of Sodington, in which John Blount agrees to wed
Catherine, youngest daughter of Thomas, and that the enfeoffors of the
said John of the manor of Timberlake, &c, shall enfeoft them to the said
John and Catherine, to be of the yearly value of ten pounds, that the said
Thomas, and Joan his wife, shall settle lands in Tattesale, Martroke, and
Godewad in Shropshire to their own use for life, with remainder to John
and Catherinem. Corbet bore, quarterly, the first and fourth, or, a raven,
proper. Second, or, a carbunde of eight points, sable. Third, argent,
three bendlets, gules, within a bordure, sable, charged with besants". His
will is dated the first of March, 1478, and was proved at Cleobury, the
nineteenth of January, 1479. . His feoffees were to raise twenty marks to
marry Isabella, Margaret, and Blanch, his daughters, if they married with
the consent of Katherine their mother, and Edward their brother".
They had six sons and three daughters. Sir Edward Blount, the
eldest, married Joan the relict of Sir Walter Devereux, was knight of the
body to King Henry the Seventh, and died without issue, in the four-
teenth year of Henry the Seventh?. Peter succeeded to the estates.
Humphrey lived at Thornbury in Gloucestershire, and left children. Richard of Calais married Alice Knight
