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MOUNTJOY (or MoNTJoY), BARONS AND VISCOUNTS

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 941 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
MOUNTJOY (or MoNTJoY), BARONS AND VISCOUNTS . Sir Walter Blount (d. 1474), of Elvaston,
Derbyshire
 , grandson of Sir Walter Blount, who was an adherent of John of Gaunt, succeeded his father, Sir
Thomas
  Blount, as treasurer of Calais in 1460, becoming
governor
  a year later as a reward for service rendered to King
Edward
  IV. at the battle of Towton.
Edward
  conferred on him
rich
  estates forfeited by the
earl
  of
Devon
 ; and in 1465 Blount was made lord high treasurer and created Baron Mountjoy. This creation is noteworthy as one of the earliest examples of a baronial title not being of a territorial character; nor the title of a dignity already existing. Blount's
great
 -grandfather had married Isolda, daughter and heiress of Sir
Thomas
  de Mountjoy, and the title was probably chosen to commemorate this alliance.


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