Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport — The Earl of Newport: detail from a double portrait with Baron Goring by Sir Anthony van Dyck. Mountjoy Blount[1], 1st Earl of Newport (c. 1597 – 1666), created Baron Mountjoy in the Irish peerage (1617), baron Mountjoy of … Wikipedia
Mountjoy (disambiguation) — Mountjoy may refer to: Contents 1 Places 2 People 2.1 Title 2.2 Surname 2.3 Given name … Wikipedia
Blount — NOTOC Blount may refer to: People Blount (or Blunt) is a common surname of English derivation, meaning blonde, fair (Old French blund ), or dull (Middle English blunt, blont ) * Bessie Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England and mother of his… … Wikipedia
Mountjoy — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Doug Mountjoy (* 1942), walisischer Snookerspieler Eric W. Mountjoy (* 1930), kanadischer Geochemiker Lord Mountjoy war der Titel von: Charles Blount, 1. Earl of Devonshire und 8. Baron Mountjoy (1563… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Mountjoy — may refer to: Brockagh (also known as Mountjoy), a hamlet in County Tyrone in present day Northern Ireland Mountjoy Castle, a castle in Magheralamfield, County Tyrone Mountjoy Prison, a closed prison in County Dublin, Ireland opened in 1850… … Wikipedia
Blount, Walter, Lord Mountjoy — (d. 1474) Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy, was a member of the loyal circle of nobles and gentlemen who supported EDWARD IV and the house of YORK throughout the WARS OF THE ROSES. Born into a Derbyshire GENTRY family, Blount was a servant of… … Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses
Mountjoy, Charles Blount, 8th Lord — ▪ English lord deputy of Ireland also called (1603–06) earl of Devonshire born c. 1562 died April 3, 1606, London soldier, English lord deputy of Ireland, whose victory at Kinsale, County Cork, in 1601 led to the conquest of Ireland by English … Universalium
Blount Baronets — There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Blount, both in the Baronetage of England. Both creations are extinct. The Blount Baronetcy, of Sodington in the County of Worcester, was created in the Baronetage of England on … Wikipedia
Blount — This unusual and interesting surname is of Old French origin, and is an example of that sizeable group of early European surnames that were gradually created from the habitual use of nicknames. The nicknames were given in the first instance with… … Surnames reference
Mountjoy, Lord — see Blount, Walter, Lord Mountjoy … Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses