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Elizabeth Blount (* um 1498; † um 1540), genannt Bessie Blount, eine englische Edeldame, war die Tochter des Sir John Blount aus Shropshire und ist bekannt für ihre Rolle als Mätresse des Königs Heinrich VIII.
Elizabeth Blount ( c. 1498 [2] / c. 1500 [3] / c. 1502 [4] – 1540), [4] commonly known during her lifetime as Bessie Blount, was a mistress of Henry VIII of England . Early life. Blount was the daughter of Sir John Blount and Catherine Peshall, of Kinlet, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. [5] .
Sir John Blount (by 1471 – 27 February 1531) was an English politician. His daughter, Elizabeth, was a Lady-in-Waiting to Consort Queen of England Catherine of Aragon, and later, a mistress to King of England Henry VIII. She bore for Henry VIII his only recognized, illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
10. Apr. 2016 · Elizabeth Blount was born around 1500 in Kinlet in Shropshire, to John Blount of Kinlet and his wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Hugh Pershall of Knightley. There is some confusion as to whether she was her parent’s first child, but it is likely that she was their eldest daughter.
Elizabeth Blount, more commonly known to history as ‘Bessie’, was born around 1498-1500. Elizabeth was the daughter of Sir John Blount (Politician) and Catherine Blount (formerly Pershall). Elizabeth’s mother Catherine had served as a lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon during her marriage to Prince Arthur.
Presumably he was in considerable favour about this time with the King, who had taken his daughter Elizabeth as mistress: Elizabeth had been appointed a lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon at the beginning of the reign, and in 1519 she bore the King a son, Henry Fitzroy, later Duke of Richmond. 5
Elizabeth (Bessie) Blount, the second daughter of John Blount (1484–1531) and his wife, Katherine Peshall Blount (1483–1540), was born in about 1500. The couple had married at an early age, her mother was only ten at the time. In 1501, Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon set up their own court in Ludlow.
