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Gender: Female
Birth: June 01, 1360
Toledo, (Present Provincia de Toledo), Comuna de La Mancha (Present Castilla-La Mancha), La Corona de Castilla (Spain)
Death: 1418 (57-58)
Newkirk, Leicestershire, England
Place of Burial: St. Mary's, Newark, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
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Daughter of D. Diego Gómez de Toledo, I señor de Casarrubios y Valdepusa and Dª. Inés Alfonsa Alfonso de Ayala, señora de Malpica
Wife of Sir Walter Blount, Kt., of Barton
Mother of Walter Blount; John Blount; Peter Blount; Ann Griffith; Sir James Blount, Kt. and 3 others
Sister of Pedro Suárez de Toledo y Ayala, II señor de Casarrubios; Fernando Pérez; Teresa Gómez de Ayala; Aldonza de Ayala y Toledo, IV Señora de Valdepusa y Malpica; Mencía de Ayala and 1 other
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Sancha Blount, Lady de Ayala
Sancha De Ayala, Dona/Dame
b 1360, Of, Toledo, New Castile, Spain
in 1406, the Lady Sancha Blount founded the hospital of St. Leonards, Alkmonton, Derbyshire.
d 1418, Newark, Leicester, , England
bur 1418, St. Mary's, Newark, Leicester, England
Her will, made in 1415, is still in existence.
She married 1371 Sir Walter Le Blount,
b c1348 in Of Sodington, Worestershire, England (b 1350, Elwaston, Derbyshire, England ?),
d 21 Jul 1403, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Sancha de Ayala was born in 1356 at Toledo, Spain.[1]
She was the daughter of Diego Gomez de Toledo and Inez Alfonsa de Ayala.[1]
She married Sir Walter Blount, son of John Blount and Eleanor Beauchamp.
She died in 1418.[1]
Children of Sancha de Ayala and Sir Walter Blount
1 Constance Blount+ d. Sep 1432
2 Thomas Blount+1 b. 1390, d. 1456
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Descending directly from these English Blount, was William Blount (1749-1800) US politician who was among those signing the Constitution in 1787.
Later he was senator for the State of Tennessee.
This William Blount is grandson to Thomas Blount, first of this surname to settle in the English colonies and who arrived to America during the colonial period.
The Literary Heritage of Sancha de Ayala
Sancha de Ayala was born into a family with interesting connections in Toledo and the Castilian kingdom at large. Though her family was not of the first rank of the nobility, it is fascinating that she should be so well linked, by blood and by patronage, to the most important figures of the proto-Renaissance of Castilian letters. Sancha’s maternal uncle, the politician, poet and chronicler Pero López de Ayala, is the best known member of an extended literary dynasty whose intellectual luster far outshines that of the English family into which Sancha married.1 The literary legacy reaches beyond Pero López’s own father, Fernán Pérez de Ayala (also a writer),2 to Fernán Pérez' maternal uncle Pero Gómez Barroso, bishop of Cartagena and the 'Cardinal of Spain', who was intimately connected to the pre-Renaissance humanist culture at Avignon, and to whom is attributed one extant political tract, the Libro de consejos y de los consejeros.3 The legacy goes back through him ultimately to his own ancestor, the Galician-Portuguese troubadour poet Pero Gómez Barroso, a courtier to King Alfonso X, whose court in the mid thirteenth century set a cultural standard for all of Christian Spain.4 These Barroso and Ayala families were politically and culturally followers of the royal house of Don Juan Manuel, a writer and patron himself, nephew of King Alfonso X and ancestor of the later house of Trastamara, with whose fortunes Pero López de Ayala would be tied.5
One of Sancha's own sisters, Teresa de Ayala, was (briefly, as a very young teenager) mistress of King Pedro I, to whom she bore a daughter, María de Ayala: both mother and daughter had long careers at the Dominican convent of Santo Domingo el Real in Toledo, where they lie buried in the convent’s chapel.6 True to their family tradition, but unusual for their sex, Teresa and María left a remarkable literary legacy of her own: a long series of correspondence with members of the royal Trastamara house—a remarkable relationship, considering their ties as former mistress and daughter of the Trastamaras' murdered ex-rival, King Pedro I.
The literary heritage would descend further into the fifteenth century with younger cousins of Sancha, including her paternal second cousin and maternal first cousin Fernán Pérez de Guzmán (d. 1460), author of the Generaciones y semblanzas, a masterwork of political biography in the Roman tradition;7 and another maternal cousin Iñigo López de Mendoza, the Marqués de Santillana (d. 1458), one of the great poets of the Castilian Renaissance.8 Both men stand at the head of literary dynasties stretching into the later Renaissance: the Marqués de Santillana is ancestor to the seventeenth-century poet Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, while Fernán Pérez de Guzmán is great-grandfather to the poet Garcilaso de la Vega. Much of this intellectual and blood lineage, from Fernán Pérez de Ayala on down through the Mendozas, is profiled by Nelen Nader in The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance, 1350-1550 (Rutgers, 1979). This book is available on line in html form through the LIBRO server of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (the server is currently hosted by the University of Central Arkansas).
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Notes
1. There is a large body of critical literature about Pero López de Ayala, including, in English, the volume by Constance L. Wilkins, Pero López de Ayala, in the Tawyne World Authors Series (Boston, 1989). Professor Wilkins also produced editions of the most important of his chronicles: Coronica del rey don Pedro, ed. Constance L. Wilkins and Heanon M. Wilkins (Madison, Wisconsin, 1985); and Coronica de Enrique III, ed. Constance L. Wilkins and Heanon M. Wilkins (Madison, Wisconsin, 1992). Of his literary works, the newest critical edition of the Rimado de palacio, ed. H. Salvador Martínez (New York: Peter Lang, 2000), includes a valuable and comprehensive introduction (in Spanish) to the man and his work. Other masterworks include the Libro de la caça de las aves, ed. John G. Cummins (London, 1986); and For other works, see next note.
2. Fernán Pérez is overshadowed by his famous son, but he began the Libro del linaje de los señores de Ayala, which is the most important autobiographical and genealogical treatise of his generation, and the single most important source for most of Sancha de Ayala’s early connections. This and other aspects of Fernán Pérez’ literary and political career are covered by Juan de Contreras y López de Ayala, Marqués de Lozoya, Introducción a la biografía del canciller Ayala (Bilbao, 1950), and Michel García, Obra y personalidad del canciller Ayala (Madrid, 1983). The political career of Fernán Pérez de Ayala and his father, their alliance with the Barroso family and political ties to Don Juan Manuel, are well explored by Juan Torres Fontes, "Relación murciana de los López de Ayala en los siglos XIII y XIV," Murgetana (Academia Alfonso X el Sabio, Murcia) 45 (1976), 5-25.
3. Edited as the Libro del consejo e de los consejeros, ed. Agapito Rey (Zaragoza, 1962). Attributed only to ‘Maestre Pedro’, the authorship of this work is only speculative. Nevertheless the Cardinal Pedro Gómez Barroso is accorded an important intellectual role, notably in the education of his grand-nephew, Pero López de Ayala. See Helen Nader, The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance (Rutgers, 1979), esp. pp. 57-60.
4. On the Galician-Portuguese troubadour Pedro Gomes Barroso [here I use the Portuguese spelling], there is a recent edition of his extant poems: Pedro Gomes Barroso, Cantos falados, 2d ed. (Lisboa, 1996). One can also find representative works in such collections as the Antología de la poesía gallego-portuguesa, ed. Carlos Alvar and Vicente Beltrán (Madrid, 1985), 135-39, or Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer dos cancioneiros medievais galego-portugueses, ed. Manuel Rodrigues Lapa, 3. ed. (Lisboa, 1995), 247-51. Most of this corpus is not available in English, but some are found in 113 Galician-Portuguese troubadour poems, trans. Richard Zenith (Manchester, UK, 1995), and in Medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry: an anthology, trans. Frede Jensen (New York, 1992). The most definitive study of the troubadour is still J. J. Nunes, “Don Pero Gomez Barroso: troador português do século XIII,” Boletin de la real academia gallega 14 (1919), 265 et seq. Again, the identification of the poet attributed sometimes only as ‘Pedro Barroso’ with the noble ‘Pedro Gomes Barroso’ is traditional.
5. Don Juan Manuel (1282-1347), nephew of king Alfonso X, is responsible for the moralizing semi-novel, Libro de los enxiemplos del Conde Lucanor e de Patronio (translated as The book of Count Lucanor and Patronio, trans. John E. Keller, L. Clark Keating, and Barbara E. Gaddy (New York, 1993), and for various other political and social treatises, including the Libro de los estados (ed. Ian R. Macpherson y Robert Brian Tate [Madrid, 1991]) and the Libro del cavallero e del escudero (in Cinco tratados, ed. Reinaldo Ayerbe-Chaux [Madison, Wisconsin, 1989]). There is also a volume in English on him in the Twayne World Authors Series: Tracy Sturcken, Don Juan Manuel (New York, 1974).
6. Verardo García Rey, “La famosa priora doña Teresa de Ayala,” Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia 96 (1930), 685-773. A few letters (only to, and not by her) are excerpted in English translation in “The Convent and the World: Letters to and about Teresa de Ayala and María de Ayala,” in Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim and Jewish Sources, ed. Olivia Remie Constable (Philadelphia, 1993), pp. 302-306. Dona Teresa’s magnificent tomb is shown and discussed in Balbina Martínez Caviro, Mudéjar toledano: palacios y conventos (Madrid, 1980), 358-61. Her daughter María’s tomb inscription is only known from earlier sources.
7. On Fernán Pérez de Guzmán see Nader, ch. 4, esp. pp. 84-91. For his masterwork, the Generaciones y semblanzas, see the edition by R. B. Tate (London, 1965), or a recent text and concordance by Robert Folger (Madison, Wisconsin, 1998). There now an annotated English translation as well: Pen portraits of illustrious Castilians, trans. Marie Gillette and Loretta Zehngut (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003). Note that Nader's genealogical chart seems to place him incorrectly below another generation.
8. On the Marqués de Santillana see Nader, ch. 4, pp. 93-100. The most recent complete edition of his poetry and prose works is: Iñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana, Obras completas: poesía, prosa, ed. Angel Gómez Moreno and Maxim P. A. M. Kerkhof (Madrid: Biblioteca Castro, 2002). I do not find a single large-scale English translation of his works, though various individual poems appear to have been translated in numerous places.
The palace of Diego Gómez
Tomb of Fernán Gómez - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000012907516636?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000090231694847&position=0
[Part of a series of posts and pages dedicated to Sancha de Ayala]
The palace of Diego Gómez, one of the magnificent Mudejar-Gothic palaces in the old heart of the city of Toledo, long ago became the Franciscan convent of Santa Isabel de los Reyes; but it has only recently (2005) become a “convent-museum” with increased public access. His daughter Sancha de Ayala has a certain genealogical cachet as a ‘gateway’ ancestor linking medieval Spanish ancestry to numerous Anglo-American descendants (along with Eleanor of Castile or the daughters of Pedro the Cruel, but not too many others). Daughter of a well-connected minor noble family caught in the web of civil strife in the reign of Pedro the Cruel, and further caught in the web of the English interventions in Spanish affairs, she went to England as lady-in-waiting to a queen-in-exile, Constance, wife of John of Gaunt, joining the minor English nobility with her marriage to Sir Walter Blount (a trusted follower of Gaunt, who had diplomatic and military experience in Spain).
Sancha’s life prior to her migration to England is difficult to flesh out for those who have little familiarity with Spain (or Spanish) or medieval lives more generally. But she is relatively unusual—and unusually accessible—because her paternal and maternal family houses are preserved in essentially medieval condition; they would be recognizable to her if she were to visit them now. Her mother’s ancestral compound we’ll look at later—it is a castle in the countryside of Alava, near Bilbao. Her father’s palace is in the heart of the old city of Toledo. Here is one of the exterior doors, built by Sancha’s brother Pedro Suárez de Toledo (and bearing his—and her—paternal and maternal arms):
https://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/72
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daughter of Don Diego de Guzman, lord of Casarrubios, Malpica and Valdepusa, Governor of the Castle of Toledo in Castilla in Spain and his wife Ines de Ayala.
7 children: Walter, Thomas, Constance, James, Peter, Ann, John
Sancha De Ayala
born Abt 1360 Of, Toledo, New Castile, Spain
died 1418 Newark, Leicestershire, England
buried 1418 St. Mary's, Newark, Leicestershire, England
father: Diego Gomez De Toledo
born Abt 1334 Of Toledo, New Castile, Spain
mother: nez Alfonsa De Ayala
born Abt 1338 Of Toledo, New Castile, Spain
married Abt 1355 Of Toledo, New Castile, Spain
siblings:
Pedro Suarez Gomez De Ayala born Abt 1356 Of Toledo, New Castile, Spain
Fernando De Ayala born Abt 1358 Of Toledo, New Castile, Spain
Teresa Gomez De Ayala born Abt 1362 Of Toledo, New Castile, Spain
Aldonza De Ayala born Abt 1364 Of Toledo, New Castile, Spain
Mencia De Ayala born Abt 1366 Of, Toledo, New Castile, Spain
Mayor De Ayala born Abt 1368 Of Toledo, New Castile, Spain
spouse: Walter Blount
born Abt 1350 Of Elwaston, Derbyshire, England
died 22 Jun/21 Jul 1403 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
buried St. Mary's, Newark, Leicestershire, England
married Abt 1371 Of, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England
children:'
Constance (Constantine) Blount
born Abt 1380 Of, Barton Blount, Derbyshire, England
died 23 Sep 1432 Of Northampton, England
Thomas Blount - born Abt 1378 Of, Rock, Worcestershire, England
died 1456 Of, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England
John Blount - born 1388 Of, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England; died 1414
James Blount - born Abt 1382 Of, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England
Walter Blount - born Abt 1375 Of, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England; died Aft 1382
Peter Blount - born Abt 1384 Of, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England
Ann Blount - born Abt 1386 Of, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England
biographical and/or anecdotal:
notes or source: LDS
NGSQ - National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 51, The Spanish Ancestry of American Colonists, Milton Rubincam, Washington, D.C., Dec 1963, pp. 235 - 236.
The English Ancestry of Anne Marbury Hutchinson and Katherine Marbury Scott, Meredith B. Colket, Jr., The Mager Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1936, p. 46.
Oratio Dyer Clark and of his wife Laura Ann King, Together with the ancestry of Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson, Ancestress of Oratio Dyer Clark, John Edwin Salisbury, Verified and Enlarged by Martin & Allabdyob, Asbury Park, NJ, 1917, pp. 79 - 86.
TAG - The American Genealogist, Vol. 25, No. 3, The Royal Ancestry of the Ludlows, Meredith B. Colket, Jr., Demorest, GA, Jan 1939, p. 138.
In the year 1371 Doña Constanza, daughter of the deceased (and dethroned) King of Castile, Don Pedro I (The Cruel) went to England to become the bride of King Edward III's son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Among the young Castilian ladies of aristocratic birth who accompanied her was Doña Sancha de Ayala, daughter of Don Diego (or Día-) Gómez de Guzmán (or de Toledo) and his wife, Doña Inés de Ayala.
About 1373 Doña Sancha married an English knight, Sir Walter Blount, of the Blounts of Sodington, county Worcester. On 26 February in the first year of King Richard II's reign (1378), the Duke of Lancaster, who claimed the thrones of Castile and Leon in right of his wife, granted to Sir Walter and Sancha (for their good service to him) an annuity of 100 marks a year; this grant was confirmed "for their lives in survivorship" by King Richard, April 26, 1399. Records reveal payments to Sancha at various times; once (2 January 1380) her name was associated with that of "Phelippe Chaucy", i.e., Philippa Chaucer, wife of the author of the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. On this occasion she was described by the Duke of Lancaster as "our very dear attendant" (nostre treschere compaigne) "dame Senche Blount".
Sir Walter figured prominently in the affairs of England during the times of Edward III and Henry IV. He was a close associate of John of Gaunt, and the latter made him an executor of his will and left him a small legacy. In 1367, Sir Walter accompanied the Black Prince and the Duke of Lancaster (John of Gaunt) upon the expedition into Spain to aid Peter the Cruel, King of Castile, and was at the battle of Marjara on April 3, 1367 which restored Peter to his throne. Sir Walter fell at the battle of Shrewsbury, July 21, 1403, wherein, being standard bearer, he was arrayed in the same style of armour as his royal master and was slain in single combat by Earl Douglas who believed he was in combat with the king himself. Sir Walter was slain in the course of the battle of Shrewsbury, July 21, 1403, and Shakespeare, who drew his facts mainly from Holinshed's "Chronicles" immortalized him in his Henry IV though he called him Sir Walter Blunt.
Three years after her husband's death, Dame Sancha founded a chantry in the Hospital of St. Leonard, Alkmonton, county Derbyshire. Her son-in-law, John Sutton, (husband of Constance Bount) died on August 29, 1406. On November 23 following, Dame Sancha was granted commission of the keeping of all the lands late of John Sutton, tenant in chief, during the minority of his six-year-old son and heir, John Sutton; her duties included "finding a competent maintenace for the heir, maintaining the houses and buildings and supporting the charges." In the same month the escheator in Worcestershire was ordered "to take of Constance who was the wife of John Sutton an oath etc. and in the presence of Sancha who was the wife of Walter Blount knight, to whom the king has committed the ward thereof, or of her attorneys, to assign the said Constance dower of the said John's lands."
Dame Sancha Blount made her will (still in existence) in 1415, and died in 1418. She was buried beside her husband in the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, The Neward, Leicester. Sancha de Ayala, Lady Bount, the ancestress of several English settlers in America, was descended from some of the most illustrious Castilian families. Through her father she belonged to the House of Guzmán (also called Toledo) which produced many noble families in Spain and a series of wives and mistresses for Spanish and Portuguese kings. Her mother, Inés de Ayala (by whose surname Sancha was known), was sprung from the great House of Ayala of Toledo, which traced its pedigree in the male line to the House of Haro, Lords of Biscay. The proof of Sancha's parentage is contained in a family genealogy begun about 1385 by her materal uncle, Pedro López de Ayala, Grand Chancellor of Castile. He stated that Doña Sancha "married a Knight of England, who was called Sir Walter Blount."
Sancha and Sir Walter had two children, Sir Thomas Blount and Constance. Sir Thomas was the father of two sons:
(1) Sir Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, whose descendants include Roger Ludlow, first Deputy-Governor of the Colony of CT and two U.S. Presidents, Benjamin Harrison and William Henry Harrison and:
(2) Sir Thomas Blount, the ancestor of Anne Marbury Hutchinson and Katherine Marbury Scott.
Sancha's older brother, Don Pedro Suåarez was the progenitor of much of Europe's nobility. He married Doña Juana de Orozco, Lady of Pinto and had Inés de Guzmán or de Toledo. By her second husband, Don Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marshal of Castile, she had a daughter, Doña María Fernández. Maria, 4th Lady of Casarrubios del Monte; m. Don Fadrique Enriquez and had Doña Juana Enríquez. Juana, married (1447) as his second wife, John II, King of Aragon and had Ferdinand II of Aragon, better known as Ferdinand V, The Catholic, King of Castile, who married the celebrated Queen Isabella of Castile and had several children including:
Emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain), ancestor of the Habsburg and Bourbon Kings of Spain;
Juana "La Loca" ("the crazy"), Queen of Castile, who married Philip the Handsome, Archduke of Austria;
Ferdinand I, who was progenitor of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors and Emperors of Austria, all of the present European sovereigns (including Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain), most of the dethroned dynasties of Europe, the Calvert family of Maryland, a branch of the Morris family of Philadelphia, and the Custis-Lee family of the Arlington Estate in Virginia; and
Catherine of Aragon who married first the Tudor Prince, Arthur and second, his brother, King Henry VIII of England.
The marriage of doña Sancha de Ayalá to Sir Walter Blount, Kt., in 1373 (probably at Sodington in Worcestershire) is an important event, at least for genealogists. The union brought some exotic bloodlines into the English aristocracy, and later into many families on both sides of the Atlantic. Any marriage more than six hundred years ago is likely to have millions of descendants today, so our descent from doña Sancha is nothing special; still, it's interesting.
In 1371, doña Constanza of Aragón (daughter of Pedro I, 'the Cruel') came to England to marry John of Gaunt, younger son of King Edward III. (We are descended from John, but not via this wife.) Costanza brought an entourage with her, including some noble ladies-in-waiting; Sancha was one of these, and she soon met and fell in love with Walter Blount (c1350-1403), a knight from a very minor family. (But it's also possible she had met him before; Sir Walter had accompanied Gaunt to Castile in 1367, on a military campaign to help King Pedro against a usurper. She would have been less then ten years old then, however.) As they married and raised a family, they remained close to John of Gaunt, who granted them an annuity, confirmed some years later by King Richard II (Gaunt's nephew). Sancha appears in various records over some thirty years; she was a close friend of Geoffrey Chaucer and his family, and Gaunt mentions her in one document as "nostre tres chere compaigne," our very dear companion or attendant. Gaunt died in 1399 (Blount was one of his executors), but as his son soon became King Henry IV, Walter and Sancha were still in favor at court. However, Blount was killed by the Scottish Earl Douglas at the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. (He was wearing the king's colors, and Douglas thought he was Henry IV. Shakespeare mentions him in Henry IV part I.) Sancha lived until 1418. She dedicated herself to religious and charitable works, founding chantries and hospitals.
There were seven children; see Blount. One was Sir Thomas Blount, who married Margaret Gresley; and had two sons: Sir Walter, first Lord Mountjoy, who married Helena Byron and is our ancestor through the Ludlows; and Sir Thomas, who is the ancestor of some early New England settlers such as Anne Marbury Hutchinson (and through her, of the Bush dynasty).
Sancha's brother don Pedro Suarez Guzmán y Ayalá had a great-granddaughter, Juana, who married Juan II of Aragón and was the mother of Ferdinand V of Spain, husband of Isabella of Castile and ancestor of all of today's European royalty. (King Ferdinand was thus fourth cousin of Lady Elizabeth Blount, who married Andrews Windsor and was grandmother of the first Edmund Ludlow.)
Sancha Blount's father was Diego Gomez de Guzmán de Toledo, Lord of Casarrubios, Alcalde Mayor de Toledo, etc, from a family that had been prominent in Spain for centuries. She used her mother's name, however, because the house of Lopez de Ayalá was even older and more aristocratic. Inés Lopez de Ayalá was from a branch of the very ancient (Visigothic and Basque) House of Haró, and was descended from Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar ("El Cid"), from all the early Spanish royal families, from the house of Lara that is ancestral to most of the Spanish nobility, and even from the Prophet Muhammad through several diplomatic marriages between Spanish nobles and the family of the Muslim Caliphs of Córdoba and Granada (the Umayyad dynasty, orginally from Baghdad and direct descendants of Muhammad's daughter Fatima).
Accompanied Dona Constanze to England when she married John of Gaunt.
Founded a chantry in Hospital of St. Leonard
Links
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7643095/sancha-blount
http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p373.htm#i11193
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BLOUNT1.htm#Walter BLOUNT (Sir Knight)3
http://www.thepeerage.com/p1024.htm#i10238
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/blount-sir-walter-1403
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Blount_(soldier)
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SPANISH%20NOBILITY%20LATER%20MEDIEVAL%202.htm#DiegoGómezManriquedied1385B
An ancient family of Spanish Grandees descended from don Vela de Arragon, 1074
Sancha de Ayalá
The marriage of doña Sancha de Ayalá to Sir Walter Blount, Kt., in 1373 (probably at Sodington in Worcestershire) is an important event, at least for genealogists. The union brought some exotic bloodlines into the English aristocracy, and later into many families on both sides of the Atlantic. Any marriage more than six hundred years ago is likely to have millions of descendants today, so our descent fromdoña Sancha is nothing special; still, it's interesting.
In 1371, doña Constanza of Aragón (daughter of Pedro I, 'the Cruel') came to England to marry John of Gaunt, younger son of King Edward III. (We are descended from John, but not via this wife.) Costanza brought an entourage with her, including some noble ladies-in-waiting; Sancha was one of these, and she soon met and fell in love with Walter Blount (c1350-1403), a knight from a very minor family. (But it's also possible she had met him before; Sir Walter had accompanied Gaunt to Castile in 1367, on a military campaign to help King Pedro against a usurper. She would have been less then ten years old then, however.) As they married and raised a family, they remained close to John of Gaunt, who granted them an annuity, confirmed some years later by King Richard II (Gaunt's nephew). Sancha appears in various records over some thirty years; she was a close friend of Geoffrey Chaucer and his family, and Gaunt mentions her in one document as "nostre tres chere compaigne," our very dear companion or attendant. Gaunt died in 1399 (Blount was one of his executors), but as his son soon became King Henry IV, Walter andSancha were still in favor at court. However, Blount was killed by the Scottish Earl Douglas at the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. (He was wearing the king's colors, and Douglas thought he was Henry IV. Shakespeare mentions him in Henry IV part I.) Sancha lived until 1418. She dedicated herself to religious and charitable works, founding chantries and hospitals.
There were seven children; see Blount. One was Sir Thomas Blount, who marriedMargaret Gresley; and had two sons: Sir Walter, first Lord Mountjoy, who married Helena Byron and is our ancestor through the Ludlows; and Sir Thomas, who is the ancestor of some early New England settlers such as Anne Marbury Hutchinson (and through her, of the Bush dynasty).
Sancha' s brother don Pedro Suarez Guzmán y Ayalá had a great-granddaughter, Juana, who married Juan II of Aragón and was the mother of Ferdinand V of Spain, husband of Isabella of Castile and ancestor of all of today's European royalty. (King Ferdinand was thus fourth cousin of Lady Elizabeth Blount, who marriedAndrews Windsor and was grandmother of the first Edmund Ludlow.)
Sancha Blount's father was Diego Gomez de Guzmán de Toledo, Lord of Casarrubios, Alcalde Mayor de Toledo, etc, from a family that had been prominent in Spain for centuries. She used her mother's name, however, because the house ofLopez de Ayalá was even older and more aristocratic. Inés Lopez de Ayalá was from a branch of the very ancient (Visigothic and Basque) House of Haró, and was descended from Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar ("El Cid"), from all the early Spanish royal families, from the house of Lara that is ancestral to most of the Spanish nobility, and even from the Prophet Muhammad through several diplomatic marriages between Spanish nobles and the family of the Muslim Caliphs of Córdoba and Granada (theUmayyad dynasty, orginally from Baghdad and direct descendants ofMuhammad's daughter Fatima).
Here is the Ayalá paternal descent: if the Libro del linaje de los señores de Ayalá is accurate, this family is branch of the house of Haró. We start with Lope Ruyz de Haró, who married Berenguela, daughter of Gonzalo Ruyz (II) de Girón andSancha Rodriguez de Lara. Their son Pedro López (c1231-p1253) marriedElvira, daughter of Sancho Peréz de Gamboa (see Álava for his ancestry), whose mother was María, heiress to the lordship of Ayalá (see below). Thus Pedro Lópezbecame "de Ayalá." Their son Sancho Peréz (born in the 1250s) was the tenth recorded señor de Ayalá. He married Aldonca de Velascuri; they were the parents of:
Pedro López de Ayalá, Señor de Unza, Mena y Albudeite, adelantado mayor of the Kingdom of Murcia, had an illegitimate son by doña Inéz de Azagra: (1) Pedro López de Ayala, Señor de Campos, Albudeite y Levadura, alférez mayor del Pendón de la Banda 1367, as such present at the battle of Nájera; and by his wife Sancha Fernández Barroso, (2) Fernan Peréz (died 1378), Señor del Valle de Ayalá. He was the author of a genealogical treatise on his family, the Libro del linaje de los señores de Ayalá, completed by his son. He married doña Elvira Álvarez deCeballos (died 1372), daughter of don Diego Gutiérrez de Ceballos and his wifedoña Juana García Carrillo. Two children: (1) don Pedro López de Ayala, "el Cronista" (1332-1407), whose descendants were the counts of Salvatierra and Ayalá; and (2) Inéz, who married Diego Gomez de Guzmán de Toledo, see above - the parents of doña Sancha de Ayalá, and also of (2) Pedro de Guzmán de Toledo, whose descendants were the Señores de Casarrubio; his great-great-great-great grandson was King Ferdinand V 'el Católico'; and (3) Aldonca, married Pedro Afan de Ribera.
Here is the maternal line of Sancho Peréz, tenth Señor de Ayalá: The earliest known lord of Ayalá is Lope Sanchez, who lived in the mid-eleventh century. He was the father of Velasco López de Ayalá, father of Galindo Velazquez (born c1070), who married María, daughter of Rodrigo Arangutia de Salzedo, count of Arangutia (a town in the Rioja region). Their son was García Galindez, who marriedAlberta, daughter of García Sauz de Zurbano. They were the parents of Sancho García de Salzedo (c1128-c1195) - the name suggesting that he inherited property through his grandmother. Sancho married María, daughter of Nuno Iñíguez de Piedrolas (son of Iñígo Sanchez de Mendoza). Their daughter María, heiress of Ayalá, married Pedro de Guevara (see also Álava). María's son was Sancho Peréz de Gamboa; he married Andrea Díaz de Mena; their daughter and heiressElvira de Gamboa married Sancho Peréz, tenth Señor de Ayalá jure uxoris.
See Blo unt for descendants.
In the year 1371 Doña Constanza, daughter of the deceased (and dethroned) King of Castile, Don Pedro I (The Cruel) went to England to become the bride of King Edward III's son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Among the young Castilian ladies of aristocratic birth who accompanied her was Doña Sancha de Ayala, daughter of Don Diego (or Día-) Gómez de Guzmán (or de Toledo) and his wife, Doña Inés de Ayala.
About 1373 Doña Sancha married an English knight, Sir Walter Blount, of the Blounts of Sodington, county Worcester. On 26 February in the first year of King Richard II's reign (1378), the Duke of Lancaster, who claimed the thrones of Castile and Leon in right of his wife, granted to Sir Walter and Sancha (for their good service to him) an annuity of 100 marks a year; this grant was confirmed "for their lives in survivorship" by King Richard, April 26, 1399. Records reveal payments to Sancha at various times; once (2 January 1380) her name was associated with that of "Phelippe Chaucy", i.e., Philippa Chaucer, wife of the author of the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. On this occasion she was described by the Duke of Lancaster as "our very dear attendant" (nostre treschere compaigne) "dame Senche Blount".
Sir Walter figured prominently in the affairs of England during the times of Edward III and Henry IV. He was a close associate of John of Gaunt, and the latter made him an executor of his will and left him a small legacy. In 1367, Sir Walter accompanied the Black Prince and the Duke of Lancaster (John of Gaunt) upon the expedition into Spain to aid Peter the Cruel, King of Castile, and was at the battle of Marjara on April 3, 1367 which restored Peter to his throne. Sir Walter fell at the battle of Shrewsbury, July 21, 1403, wherein, being standard bearer, he was arrayed in the same style of armour as his royal master and was slain in single combat by Earl Douglas who believed he was in combat with the king himself. Sir Walter was slain in the course of the battle of Shrewsbury, July 21, 1403, and Shakespeare, who drew his facts mainly from Holinshed's "Chronicles" immortalized him in his Henry IV though he called him Sir Walter Blunt.
Three years after her husband's death, Dame Sancha founded a chantry in the Hospital of St. Leonard, Alkmonton, county Derbyshire. Her son-in-law, John Sutton, (husband of Constance Bount) died on August 29, 1406. On November 23 following, Dame Sancha was granted commission of the keeping of all the lands late of John Sutton, tenant in chief, during the minority of his six-year-old son and heir, John Sutton; her duties included "finding a competent maintenace for the heir, maintaining the houses and buildings and supporting the charges." In the same month the escheator in Worcestershire was ordered "to take of Constance who was the wife of John Sutton an oath etc. and in the presence of Sancha who was the wife of Walter Blount knight, to whom the king has committed the ward thereof, or of her attorneys, to assign the said Constance dower of the said John's lands."
Dame Sancha Blount made her will (still in existence) in 1415, and died in 1418. She was buried beside her husband in the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, The Neward, Leicester. Sancha de Ayala, Lady Bount, the ancestress of several English settlers in America, was descended from some of the most illustrious Castilian families. Through her father she belonged to the House of Guzmán (also called Toledo) which produced many noble families in Spain and a series of wives and mistresses for Spanish and Portuguese kings. Her mother, Inés de Ayala (by whose surname Sancha was known), was sprung from the great House of Ayala of Toledo, which traced its pedigree in the male line to the House of Haro, Lords of Biscay. The proof of Sancha's parentage is contained in a family genealogy begun about 1385 by her materal uncle, Pedro López de Ayala, Grand Chancellor of Castile. He stated that Doña Sancha "married a Knight of England, who was called Sir Walter Blount."
Sancha and Sir Walter had two children, Sir Thomas Blount and Constance. Sir Thomas was the father of two sons:
(1) Sir Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, whose descendants include Roger Ludlow, first Deputy-Governor of the Colony of CT and two U.S. Presidents, Benjamin Harrison and William Henry Harrison and:
(2) Sir Thomas Blount, the ancestor of Anne Marbury Hutchinson and Katherine Marbury Scott.
Sancha's older brother, Don Pedro Suåarez was the progenitor of much of Europe's nobility. He married Doña Juana de Orozco, Lady of Pinto and had Inés de Guzmán or de Toledo. By her second husband, Don Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marshal of Castile, she had a daughter, Doña María Fernández. Maria, 4th Lady of Casarrubios del Monte; m. Don Fadrique Enriquez and had Doña Juana Enríquez. Juana, married (1447) as his second wife, John II, King of Aragon and had Ferdinand II of Aragon, better known as Ferdinand V, The Catholic, King of Castile, who married the celebrated Queen Isabella of Castile and had several children including:
Emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain), ancestor of the Habsburg and Bourbon Kings of Spain;
Juana "La Loca" ("the crazy"), Queen of Castile, who married Philip the Handsome, Archduke of Austria;
Ferdinand I, who was progenitor of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors and Emperors of Austria, all of the present European sovereigns (including Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain), most of the dethroned dynasties of Europe, the Calvert family of Maryland, a branch of the Morris family of Philadelphia, and the Custis-Lee family of the Arlington Estate in Virginia; and
Catherine of Aragon who married first the Tudor Prince, Arthur and second, his brother, King Henry VIII of England.
The marriage of doña Sancha de Ayalá to Sir Walter Blount, Kt., in 1373 (probably at Sodington in Worcestershire) is an important event, at least for genealogists. The union brought some exotic bloodlines into the English aristocracy, and later into many families on both sides of the Atlantic. Any marriage more than six hundred years ago is likely to have millions of descendants today, so our descent from doña Sancha is nothing special; still, it's interesting.
In 1371, doña Constanza of Aragón (daughter of Pedro I, 'the Cruel') came to England to marry John of Gaunt, younger son of King Edward III. (We are descended from John, but not via this wife.) Costanza brought an entourage with her, including some noble ladies-in-waiting; Sancha was one of these, and she soon met and fell in love with Walter Blount (c1350-1403), a knight from a very minor family. (But it's also possible she had met him before; Sir Walter had accompanied Gaunt to Castile in 1367, on a military campaign to help King Pedro against a usurper. She would have been less then ten years old then, however.) As they married and raised a family, they remained close to John of Gaunt, who granted them an annuity, confirmed some years later by King Richard II (Gaunt's nephew). Sancha appears in various records over some thirty years; she was a close friend of Geoffrey Chaucer and his family, and Gaunt mentions her in one document as "nostre tres chere compaigne," our very dear companion or attendant. Gaunt died in 1399 (Blount was one of his executors), but as his son soon became King Henry IV, Walter and Sancha were still in favor at court. However, Blount was killed by the Scottish Earl Douglas at the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. (He was wearing the king's colors, and Douglas thought he was Henry IV. Shakespeare mentions him in Henry IV part I.) Sancha lived until 1418. She dedicated herself to religious and charitable works, founding chantries and hospitals.
There were seven children; see Blount. One was Sir Thomas Blount, who married Margaret Gresley; and had two sons: Sir Walter, first Lord Mountjoy, who married Helena Byron and is our ancestor through the Ludlows; and Sir Thomas, who is the ancestor of some early New England settlers such as Anne Marbury Hutchinson (and through her, of the Bush dynasty).
Sancha's brother don Pedro Suarez Guzmán y Ayalá had a great-granddaughter, Juana, who married Juan II of Aragón and was the mother of Ferdinand V of Spain, husband of Isabella of Castile and ancestor of all of today's European royalty. (King Ferdinand was thus fourth cousin of Lady Elizabeth Blount, who married Andrews Windsor and was grandmother of the first Edmund Ludlow.)
Sancha Blount's father was Diego Gomez de Guzmán de Toledo, Lord of Casarrubios, Alcalde Mayor de Toledo, etc, from a family that had been prominent in Spain for centuries. She used her mother's name, however, because the house of Lopez de Ayalá was even older and more aristocratic. Inés Lopez de Ayalá was from a branch of the very ancient (Visigothic and Basque) House of Haró, and was descended from Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar ("El Cid"), from all the early Spanish royal families, from the house of Lara that is ancestral to most of the Spanish nobility, and even from the Prophet Muhammad through several diplomatic marriages between Spanish nobles and the family of the Muslim Caliphs of Córdoba and Granada (the Umayyad dynasty, orginally from Baghdad and direct descendants of Muhammad's daughter Fatima).
Accompanied Dona Constanze to England when she married John of Gaunt. Founded a chantry in Hospital of St. Leonard
An ancient family of Spanish Grandees descended from don Vela de Arragon, 1074
Hello there! everyone with respect. I think this listing is incorrect, this character can not be Lady Sancha Ayala Sister and also Grandmother r of the husband of this. Lady Sancha Gomez ancha de Ayalá The marriage of doña Sancha de Ayalá to Sir Walter Blount, Kt., in 1373 (probably at Sodington in Worcestershire) is an important event, at least for genealogists. The union brought some exotic bloodlines into the English aristocracy, and later into many families on both sides of the Atlantic. Any marriage more than six hundred years ago is likely to have millions of descendants today, so our descent fromdoña Sancha is nothing special; still, it's interesting. In 1371, doña Constanza of Aragón (daughter of Pedro I, 'the Cruel') came to England to marry John of Gaunt, younger son of King Edward III. (We are descended from John, but not via this wife.) Costanza brought an entourage with her, including some noble ladies-in-waiting; Sancha was one of these, and she soon met and fell in love with Walter Blount (c1350-1403), a knight from a very minor family. (But it's also possible she had met him before; Sir Walter had accompanied Gaunt to Castile in 1367, on a military campaign to help King Pedro against a usurper. She would have been less then ten years old then, however.) As they married and raised a family, they remained close to John of Gaunt, who granted them an annuity, confirmed some years later by King Richard II (Gaunt's nephew). Sancha appears in various records over some thirty years; she was a close friend of Geoffrey Chaucer and his family, and Gaunt mentions her in one document as "nostre tres chere compaigne," our very dear companion or attendant. Gaunt died in 1399 (Blount was one of his executors), but as his son soon became King Henry IV, Walter and Sancha were still in favor at court. However, Blount was killed by the Scottish Earl Douglas at the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. (He was wearing the king's colors, and Douglas thought he was Henry IV. Shakespeare mentions him in Henry IV part I.) Sancha lived until 1418. She dedicated herself to religious and charitable works, founding chantries and hospitals. There were seven children; see Blount. One was Sir Thomas Blount, who married Margaret Gresley; and had two sons: Sir Walter, first Lord Mountjoy, who married Helena Byron and is our ancestor through the Ludlows; and Sir Thomas, who is the ancestor of some early New England settlers such as Anne Marbury Hutchinson (and through her, of the Bush dynasty). Sancha' s brother don Pedro Suarez Guzmán y Ayalá had a great-granddaughter, Juana, who married Juan II of Aragón and was the mother of Ferdinand V of Spain, husband of Isabella of Castile and ancestor of all of today's European royalty. (King Ferdinand was thus fourth cousin of Lady Elizabeth Blount, who married Andrews Windsor and was grandmother of the first Edmund Ludlow.) Sancha Blount's father was Diego Gomez de Guzmán de Toledo, Lord of Casarrubios, Alcalde Mayor de Toledo, etc, from a family that had been prominent in Spain for centuries. She used her mother's name, however, because the house of Lopez de Ayalá was even older and more aristocratic. Inés Lopez de Ayalá was from a branch of the very ancient (Visigothic and Basque) House of Haró, and was descended from Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar ("El Cid"), from all the early Spanish royal families, from the house of Lara that is ancestral to most of the Spanish nobility, and even from the Prophet Muhammad through several diplomatic marriages between Spanish nobles and the family of the Muslim Caliphs of Córdoba and Granada (the Umayyad dynasty, originally from Baghdad and direct descendants of Muhammad's daughter Fatima). Here is the Ayalá paternal descent: if the Libro del linaje de los señores de Ayalá is accurate, this family is branch of the house of Haró. We start with Lope Ruyz de Haró, who married Berenguela, daughter of Gonzalo Ruyz (II) de Girón and Sancha Rodriguez de Lara. Their son Pedro López (c1231-p1253) married Elvira, daughter of Sancho Peréz de Gamboa (see Álava for his ancestry), whose mother was María, heiress to the lordship of Ayalá (see below). Thus Pedro López became "de Ayalá." Their son Sancho Peréz (born in the 1250s) was the tenth recorded señor de Ayalá. He married Aldonca de Velascuri; they were the parents of: Pedro López de Ayalá, Señor de Unza, Mena y Albudeite, adelantado mayor of the Kingdom of Murcia, had an illegitimate son by doña Inéz de Azagra: (1) Pedro López de Ayala, Señor de Campos, Albudeite y Levadura, alférez mayor del Pendón de la Banda 1367, as such present at the battle of Nájera; and by his wife Sancha Fernández Barroso, (2) Fernan Peréz (died 1378), Señor del Valle de Ayalá. He was the author of a genealogical treatise on his family, the Libro del linaje de los señores de Ayalá, completed by his son. He married doña Elvira Álvarez de Ceballos (died 1372), daughter of don Diego Gutiérrez de Ceballos and his wifedoña Juana García Carrillo. Two children: (1) don Pedro López de Ayala, "el Cronista" (1332-1407), whose descendants were the counts of Salvatierra and Ayalá; and (2) Inéz, who married Diego Gomez de Guzmán de Toledo, see above - the parents of doña Sancha de Ayalá, and also of (2) Pedro de Guzmán de Toledo, whose descendants were the Señores de Casarrubio; his great-great-great-great grandson was King Ferdinand V 'el Católico'; and (3) Aldonca, married Pedro Afan de Ribera. Here is the maternal line of Sancho Peréz, tenth Señor de Ayalá: The earliest known lord of Ayalá is Lope Sanchez, who lived in the mid-eleventh century. He was the father of Velasco López de Ayalá, father of Galindo Velazquez (born c1070), who married María, daughter of Rodrigo Arangutia de Salzedo, count of Arangutia (a town in the Rioja region). Their son was García Galindez, who married Alberta, daughter of García Sauz de Zurbano. They were the parents of Sancho García de Salzedo (c1128-c1195) - the name suggesting that he inherited property through his grandmother. Sancho married María, daughter of Nuno Iñíguez de Piedrolas (son of Iñígo Sanchez de Mendoza). Their daughter María, heiress of Ayalá, married Pedro de Guevara (see also Álava). María's son was Sancho Peréz de Gamboa; he married Andrea Díaz de Mena; their daughter and heiress Elvira de Gamboa married Sancho Peréz, tenth Señor de Ayalá jure uxoris. See Blount for descendants.
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http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p373.htm#i11193
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BLOUNT1.htm#Walter BLOUNT (Sir Knight)3
http://www.thepeerage.com/p1024.htm#i10238
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/blount-sir-walter-1403
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Blount_(soldier)
Todd A. Farmerie and Nathaniel L. Taylor, "Notes on the Ancestry of Sancha de Ayala", prepublication MS of article, subsequently published (with minor emendations) in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103 (1998), 36-48.
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