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Birthbef 1504
Death25 Sep 1558
BurialWimborne Minster, Dorset
GeneralCo-heir to her mother.
FatherWilliam Blount Lord Mountjoy (ca1478-1534)
MotherElizabeth Say (-<1506)
Notes for Gertrude Blount
Arrested in 1538 after husband was beheaded and she was then attainted but Q. Mary reversed this and she became a lady in Waiting to the Queen.
Their s. Edwatd d.unm. and the title was dormant until 1831.
DNB Main notes for Gertrude Blount
Co-subject: [Courtenay], Gertrude, [marchioness of Exeter]
Dates: d. 1558
Active Date: 1538
Gender: Female

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His wife and son were kept in prison, and were attainted in July 1539. The marchioness for a time had for her companion Margaret Pole, countess of Salisbury (mother of Cardinal Pole), who was beheaded 27 May 1541, and the distressed condition of these two ladies was made the subject of a petition from their gaoler to the king in 1540. Subsequently the king pardoned the marchioness, and she was released. The Princess Mary was always her friend: in 1543 Mary sent her a puncheon of wine, and other presents were interchanged between them for many years afterwards. On Mary's accession to the throne she became a lady-in-waiting; her attainder was removed, and she took part in the coronation and all court ceremonies. She died on 25 Sept. 1558, and was buried at Wimborne. Her extant letters to her son Edward [q.v.] show her in a very attractive light.
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