Paternal Family Tree: Blount
Before 1442 [his father] Walter Blount 1st Baron Mountjoy [aged 25] and [his mother] Helena Byron Baroness Mountjoy [aged 25] were married.
Around 1450 John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy was born to Walter Blount 1st Baron Mountjoy [aged 34] and Helena Byron Baroness Mountjoy [aged 34] at Rock, Worcestershire.
On 25th November 1467 [his father] Walter Blount 1st Baron Mountjoy [aged 51] and [his step-mother] Anne Neville Duchess Buckingham [aged 59] were married. She by marriage Baroness Mountjoy. She the daughter of Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland and Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland.
In 1468 [his mother] Helena Byron Baroness Mountjoy [aged 52] died.
On 1st August 1474 [his father] Walter Blount 1st Baron Mountjoy [aged 58] died. His grandson Edward [aged 10] succeeded 2nd Baron Mountjoy.
On 12th October 1475 Edward Blount 2nd Baron Mountjoy [aged 11] died. His uncle John [aged 25] succeeded 3rd Baron Mountjoy.
Around 1477 John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy [aged 27] and Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Baroness Mountjoy.
Around 1478 [his son] William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy was born to John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy [aged 28] and [his wife] Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde at Barton Blount, Derbyshire [Map]. He married 1. 1497 Elizabeth Saye Baroness Mountjoy and had issue 2. before 30th July 1509 Inez Venegas Baroness Mountjoy 3. February 1515 Alice Keble Baroness Mountjoy, daughter of Henry Keble, and had issue 4. 29th July 1523 Dorothy Grey Baroness Mountjoy, Willoughby and Latimer, daughter of Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset, and had issue.
In 1480 [his daughter] Lora Blount died.
On 7th August 1485 King Henry VII of England and Ireland [aged 28] landed, traditionally at Mill Bay, Milford Haven [Map], with John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy [aged 35], John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne [aged 43], Richard Guildford [aged 35], John Welles 1st Viscount Welles [aged 35], Philibert Chandee 1st Earl Bath and Edward Courtenay 1st Earl Devon [aged 26] all of whom were knighted.
The first mention of Mill Bay being the landing place comes four hundred or so years after the event in H. Thornhill Timmins' 1895 book "Nooks and Corners of Pembrokeshire": ""and here [Dale Castle] Sir Rhys ap Thomas entertained his future King after his landing at Mill Bay upon the adjacent coast." and "in order to visit Mill Bay, the traditional landing-place of Henry of Richmond."
Polydore Vergil, writing his Anglica Historia, around thirty or so years after the event, has "on the seventh day he reached Wales after sunset, being borne into the port of Milford. Landing immediately, he first occupied a place called Dalley [Dale]".
On 22nd August 1485 King Richard III of England [aged 32] was killed during the Battle of Bosworth. His second cousin once removed Henry Tudor [aged 28] succeeded VII King of England.
Humphrey Cotes [aged 35] died. It isn't clear on which side he was fighting.
Those supporting Henry Tudor included:
John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy [aged 35].
John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne [aged 43].
Richard Guildford [aged 35].
Walter Hungerford [aged 21].
Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby [aged 50].
Edward Woodville Lord Scales [aged 29].
Edward Courtenay 1st Earl Devon [aged 26].
Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth [aged 36].
Jasper Tudor 1st Duke Bedford [aged 53].
William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont [aged 47].
Giles Daubeney 1st Baron Daubeney [aged 34].
William Stanley [aged 50].
Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley [aged 52].
Henry Marney 1st Baron Marney [aged 38].
William Brandon [aged 29] was killed.
James Harrington [aged 55] was killed.
John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk [aged 60] was killed and attainted. He was buried firstly at Thetford Priory, Norfolk [Map] and therafter at Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham [Map]. Duke Norfolk, Baron Mowbray, Baron Segrave, Baron Howard forfeit.
John Sacheverell [aged 85] was killed.
Philibert Chandee 1st Earl Bath
William Norreys [aged 44], Gilbert Talbot [aged 33], John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford [aged 42] and John Savage [aged 41] commanded,.
Robert Poyntz [aged 35] was knighted.
Those who fought for Richard III included:
John Bourchier 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby [aged 47].
John Conyers [aged 74].
Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland [aged 17].
William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley [aged 59].
Richard Fitzhugh 6th Baron Fitzhugh [aged 28].
John Scrope 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton [aged 48].
Thomas Scrope 6th Baron Scrope of Masham [aged 26].
Henry Grey 4th or 7th Baron Grey of Codnor [aged 50].
Edmund Grey 1st Earl Kent [aged 68].
Ralph Neville 3rd Earl of Westmoreland [aged 29].
John de la Pole Earl Lincoln 1st [aged 23].
Humphrey Stafford [aged 59].
George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 17].
Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk [aged 42] was wounded, captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London [Map] for three years. He was attainted; Earl Surrey forfeit.
Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell [aged 29] fought and escaped.
John Zouche 7th Baron Zouche Harringworth [aged 26] was captured.
John Babington [aged 62], William Alington [aged 65], Robert Mortimer [aged 43], Robert Brackenbury, Richard Ratclyffe [aged 55] and Richard Bagot [aged 73] were killed
Walter Devereux Baron Ferrers of Chartley [aged 53] was killed.
William Catesby [aged 35] was executed at Leicester, Leicestershire [Map] after the battle.
George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster [aged 25] held as a hostage by Richard III before the Battle of Bosworth.
Henry Percy 4th Earl of Northumberland [aged 36] betrayed King Richard III of England by not committing his forces at the Battle of Bosworth.
John Iwardby [aged 35] was killed.
On 12th October 1485 John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy [aged 35] died. His son William [aged 7] succeeded 4th Baron Mountjoy.
After 12th October 1485 Thomas Montgomery and [his wife] Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde were married.
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After 2nd January 1495 Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde [aged 69] and [his wife] Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde. He the son of James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde.
[his daughter] Constance Blount was born to John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy and Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde. She married Thomas Tyrrell and had issue.
[his son] Rowland Blount was born to John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy and Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde.
[his daughter] Lora Blount was born to John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy and Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde.
Kings Wessex: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 17 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Scotland: Great x 11 Grand Son of King Duncan II of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 17 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Blount 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Blount 8 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Beauchamp 
7 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Blount 9 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joanna Sodington
Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Blount 8 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset 
5 x Great Grandson of King Duncan II of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Beauchamp 2nd Baron Beauchamp Somerset 6 x Great Grandson of King Duncan II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Cheduit Baroness Beauchamp Somerset
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Beauchamp 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John St John 1st Baron St John of Basing 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret St John Baroness Beauchamp Somerset 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Courtenay Baroness St John of Basing 
5 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Grandfather: Thomas Blount 9 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Diego Gómez Toledo
Great x 1 Grandmother: Sancha Toledo
Father: Walter Blount 1st Baron Mountjoy 10 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Gresley 
Grandmother: Margaret Gresley
John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy 11 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Byron 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Byron of Clayton
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Byron
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Byron
Grandfather: John Byron
Mother: Helena Byron Baroness Mountjoy