Alice BLOUNT

Sir married Elizabeth DE FURNEAUX about 1350. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Symon DE FURNEAUX and Alice DE UMFRAVILLE) was born in 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth is the daughter of Sir Symon de Furneaux of Ashington, widow of Sir John Blout. She was very wealthy and ninth generation in direct line from Odo de Fornell b. about 1040 in Normandy who came to England with William the Conqueror.

Excerpt from "Lineage of the Rogers Families - England": sole heiress of her father; m. twice; First ab. 1350, Sir John Blount, Knt., Constable of the Tower, by whom she had issue of a dau. Alice, b. possibly as early as 1351. Sir John d. abt. 1384, leaving an attractive and wealthy widow, whose inherited large estates amounted to eight Knights' feees and a quarter; and in her widowhood - 8 Richd. II (1385), she founded a Chantry in the 'Abbey of Athelney' for two chaplains to say mass daily (except Good-Friday), for the good estate of herself - the Lady Elizabeth; the Lady Alice Stafford (her daughter), and other friends & Benefactors of herself; and for the souls of Sir John Blount, Sir Symon de Furneaux and Alice his wife, for Sir Henry de Umfraville and Isabel his wife, for many others by name, and for all of her friends and benefactors deceased - annual orbits to be kept of all the persons she names. Her dau. Lady Alice Blount, m. twoce; First, Sir Richard Stafford, Knt,; secondly, Sir Richard Stury, Knt., ..
The wid. Dame Elizabeth (Furneaux) Flount, having thus comforted her conscience with regard to her deceased husband, relatives and friends; still in her mature healath, appearance & worldly prosperity, was open for consolation - therefor, abt. 1385/6, she consented to a 2d. matromonial alliance, and m. John Fitz Roger, Gent.; and became the patriarchal mother of the later, distinguished Roger-Furneaux family of England. This man & woman werre approximately the same age, though the groom may have been a few yrs. younger than this bride.