Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Walter Blount

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• • 18th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 21st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1410050 
  • Father:
  • Walter Blount 
  • Mother:
  • Elionor Beauchamp   
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Jul 1403 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England 
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. Mary of Newark, Leicester, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sancha de Ayala
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1373 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Blount

  Constance Blount (Ahnentafel No:705025 )

• Sources for Walter Blount

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 2004, Vol. 79, p. 20.
  • ² thePeerage.com: A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of Britain as Well as the Royal Families of Europe, (accessed 02/03/2012).
  • ³ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 81.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 661.
  • ⁵ Selby, Walford D., ed., The Genealogist: A Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographical and Heraldic Research, Volume 2, London: George Bell and Sons (1885), 223.
  • ⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 85.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Battle of Shrewsbury", (accessed 02/03/2012).
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "John de Sutton V", (accessed 02/15/2012).
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Walter Blount (soldier)", (accessed 02/03/2012).

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