Bluet · ◉ direct ancestor
♂John Bluet
Dates not yet known.
John Bluet (died before 24 March 1376) was an English knight who held Raglan, in Monmouthshire, and Daglingworth, in Gloucestershire, and whose only child carried Raglan into the Berkeley family. He was the nineteenth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Elizabeth Bluet.
Heiress and Raglan
Sir John Bluet and Katherine Wogan had one child, a daughter, Elizabeth. Sir John was living in 1372 and is said to have died before 24 March 1376. With no son, he left Elizabeth as his heiress, and Raglan passed through her to her second husband, Sir James Berkeley, a younger son of Maurice de Berkeley, Lord Berkeley. Their son James, later Lord Berkeley, was born at Raglan about 1394.
Before 1386 Katherine married again, to Anselm de Gyse, of Aspley and Elmore in Gloucestershire.
Notes
Sources
Sir John’s lands, his marriage, his one daughter, his being alive in 1372 and dead before 24 March 1376, and Katherine’s second marriage are from Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry (2005), BLUET 8, p. 97, which cites the lawsuit over Daglingworth from the Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey. Richardson’s BERKELEY 8, p. 73, makes Elizabeth the “daughter and heiress of John Bluet, Knt, of Raglan.” The Complete Peerage, 1st edition, vol. 1 (1887), p. 329, and 2nd edition, vol. 2 (1912), p. 132, also name her the daughter and heir of Sir John Bluet of Raglan. Burke’s Peerage (1869) says that with her Sir James Berkeley “had the manor of Ragland, and a fair estate in Gloucestershire.” These are printed genealogies of the medieval nobility.
Raglan or Daglingworth
The Complete Peerage, 1st edition, vol. 6 (1895), p. 213, calls him “Sir John Bluet, of Daglingworth, co. Gloucester.” Richardson gives him both places.
His parents
Richardson, BLUET 7, p. 96, makes him the son of Sir Ralph Bluet, of Raglan, Thruxton and Daglingworth, by his first wife, Elizabeth ferch Rhys ap Hywel, sister and heiress of Rhys ap Rhys, of Talgarth and Cantrefselyf. In that account Sir Ralph was knighted in Scotland before 1333, was at the siege of Calais in 1347, and married secondly Margery de Gyse, a sister of Anselm de Gyse, Katherine’s second husband.
Katherine’s name
Richardson gives her surname as “Wogan (or Gwrgan).”
Family time line
Parents not yet found. This line is still being traced.
Recorded events
| Event | When | Where | Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living at '8. JOHN BLUET, Knt., of Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, etc. He married KATHERINE WOGAN (or GWRGAN). They had one daughter, Elizabeth. SIR JOHN BLUET was living in 1372, but died before 24 March 1376.' (Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, BLUET 8, p.97 (scan 137)) - compiled, no record seen |
1372 | Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales | from a compiled source |
| Title (Nobility) Knight (Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, BERKELEY 7-8 pp.72-74) |
from a compiled source |
Sources
- Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005) — Living at, Title (Nobility), about this person, family with Katherine Wogan
Borders as they stood about 1500, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.