Blount baronets of Tittenhanger (1680) explained

Blount baronets
Creation Date:1680
Status:extinct
Extinction Date:1757
Family Seat:Tittenhanger[1]
Former Seat:Blount's Hall, Staffordshire
Motto:καλά, The good[2]

The Blount Baronetcy, of Tittenhanger in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of England on 27 January 1680 for Thomas Pope Blount (b. 1649). In the 16th century Elizabeth Blount, daughter of Sir Walter Blount of Blount Hall, Staffordshire (a descendant of the Sodington Blounts), married Sir Thomas Pope of Tittenhanger, Herefordshire. Her nephew Sir Thomas Pope Blount (d. 1638) inherited the estate at Tittenhanger on her death.[3] The first Baronet was the grandson of Sir Thomas and son of the traveller Sir Henry Blount. He represented St Albans and Hertfordshire in the House of Commons. The title became extinct on the death of his grandson, the third Baronet, in 1757.

Blount baronets, of Tittenhanger (1680)

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Wotton . Thomas . The English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and Historical Account of Their Families. 1727 . T. Wotton . 579 . en.
  2. Book: The Gentleman's Magazine . 1754 . E. Cave, jun. at St John's Gate . 36 . en.
  3. The English Baronetage, Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronets now existing Vol 3 Pt 2. Arthur Collins (1741) pp665-77. Google Books
  4. Book: Burke . John . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England . 1838 . Scott, Webster & Geary . 67–68 . en.
  5. Web site: Blount, Sir Thomas Pope, 1st Bt. (1649-97), of Tittenhanger, Ridge, Herts., History of Parliament Online . www.historyofparliamentonline.org.