Blounts of Ixworth

Jay

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Dec 21, 2003, 5:28:41 PM12/21/03

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I have had Galiena Blund/Blount wife of Robert de Insula as the
daughter of William Blund/Blount

Prescot 1902 has the following line

1 Robert LE BLOUNT, 1st Baron of Ixworth, time of William the
Conqueror.
..+Gundreda DE FERRERS, d/o Earl FERRERS.
..2 Gilbert LE BLOUNT, 2nd Baron of Ixworth.
....+Alicia DE COLEKIRKE.
....3 Galiena de Ridel.
......+Robert DE INSULA.
....3 William LE BLOUNT, 3rd Baron of Ixworth, time of Henry II.
......+Sarah DE MOUCHENSI.
......4 Gilbert or Hubert LE BLOUNT, 4th Baron of Ixworth.
........+Agnes DE L'ISLE.
........5 William LE BLOUNT (1153- ), 5th Baron of Ixworth; living
1213.
..........+Cecelia DE VERE.
..........6 Agnes LE BLOUNT.
..........6 Roisia LE BLOUNT.
..........6 William LE BLOUNT ( -12641), 6th and last Baron; S.P.
............+Alicia DE CAPELLA ( -1281)

Anybody have any data as to what is correct?

Tim Powys-Lybbe

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Dec 21, 2003, 7:39:24 PM12/21/03

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Are you sure they were barons? I can't find them in either Sanders'
"English baronies" or in "Complete peerage". Might they have been lords
of some manor?

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Jim Weber

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Dec 21, 2003, 11:38:28 PM12/21/03

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heli...@yahoo.com (Jay) wrote in message news:<d51b1746.03122...@posting.google.com>...

Jay,

You have Galiena as William's sister, while CP states that she is his
daughter.

CP VIII:69 note (e) states that Robert de Insula's wife was "Galiena,
daughter of William Blund. Geoffrey Ridell, Archdeacon of Canterbury,
gave the said Galiena on her marriage to Robert, the land that was
Mainer the Porter's at Exning. Confirmed by Henry II."

Jim Weber

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Dec 22, 2003, 9:24:12 AM12/22/03

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For what it's worth, the village of Ixworth, in West Suffolk, maintains a
website at

www.ixworth-village.co.uk/ixworth_from_roman_times.htm which states:

"The Domesday survey carried out in 1086 values the Manor of Ixworth,
tenanted at that time by Robert de Blund, at £6. This family was to prove to be of
great influence and importance to the village of Ixworth: In 1100 it founded an
Augustinian Priory of Black Canons and, following the destruction of the
original building in the civil war between the followers of Stephen and Matilda
some 50 years after the foundation was established, the de Blund family
re-endowed the Priory with a new building on the present site in 1177. Two centuries on
the tenancy of the Manor devolved to the Priory.

Nor does Ixworth appear in: A Directory of British Peerages, Francis L.
Leeson, GPC, Baltimore, reprint, 1985.

Ixworth seems to have been a manor rather than a barony.

Bromfield Nichol

Jay

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Dec 22, 2003, 2:41:49 PM12/22/03

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jimw...@nwintl.com (Jim Weber) wrote in message news:<ab9770e6.03122...@posting.google.com>...

Thanks Jim, that is what I orignally had. Was Geoffrey Riddell, a
brother of or of William and uncle of Galiena?

Jay

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Dec 22, 2003, 2:49:45 PM12/22/03

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Ok with the cp information sliced in, is this line now correct?

1 Robert LE BLOUNT, 1st Baron of Ixworth

..+Gundreda DE FERRERS, d/o Earl FERRERS.

2 Gilbert LE BLOUNT, 2nd Baron of Ixworth.
+Alicia DE COLEKIRKE.

3 William LE BLOUNT, 3rd Baron of Ixworth, time of Henry II.

+Sarah DE MOUCHENSI.

4a. Gilbert or Hubert LE BLOUNT, 4th Baron of Ixworth.
+Agnes DE L'ISLE.

4b.Galiena de Ridel (le Blount/le Blund)
Robert DE INSULA