Lord Mountjoy - drgavinr/tei-texts GitHub Wiki
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Wharton states that 'Saturday morninge the Lord munioy and his sonne were taken ridinge through the towne'. Ellis (1853), Peachey (1989), and Robinson (2012) all independently mistranscribed this as 'Munioz', but the final character matches 'y' at the end of many other words, including some nearby on the same page. When Wharton writes 'z', it closely resembles a modern printed 'z'.
The baronies of Mountjoy in the peerages of Ireland and England were created for Mountjoy Blount. In 1628, he was created 1st Earl of Newport, and the Mountjoy baronies became subsidiary titles. Baron Mountjoy was used as a courtesy title by his eldest son, also called Mountjoy Blount, who was born about 1630, succeeded as 2nd Earl of Newport in 1666, and died unmarried and without issue in 1675.[1] Therefore in 1642, Lord Mountjoy should refer to the younger Mountjoy Blount, future 2nd Earl, but he was only about 12 years old and never had any children, and so cannot have been riding with his son. If the 1st Earl and his eldest son were captured at the same time, Wharton may have got their titles mixed up. My provisional conclusion is that 'Lord munioy' means the 1st Earl, and 'his sonne' means the future 2nd Earl, but this needs to be investigated further. The Lords Journal may have some further information.
- ^ Cokayne, Complete Peerage, vol. 6, pp. 29-30 (Internet Archive). But everything referenced to this source will need to be checked against corrections in a later volume that isn't on the Internet Archive.