William le Blount
- Born: Abt 1160, Ixworth, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England
- Marriage: Cicely de Vere 983
- Died: Abt 1228, England about age 68
 Another name for William was William le Blund.
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 983
Blound, lord of Guines, in France, had three sons, who came into England with the Conqueror. Once returned into Frace again ; the other two, Sir Robert and Sir William, remained. Sir Robert at the time of the General Survey, possessed several lordships in the county of Suffolk, of which Ixworth or Ikesworth, was the chief of his barony. Sir William had serveral lordships in Linconshire : but Sir Robert was the father of Gilbert, who by Alice de Colkirke, his wife, a issue, William baron of Ixworth, who by Sarah de Montchensi, his wife, was father of another Gilbert, who by Agnes de Lisle, had two sons, William and Stephen. William the oldest, married Cicely de Vere, and had issue of another William, and two daughters; which William being amongst the rebel barons, temp. Henry III and standard bearer in their army, under Simon Monfort, earl of Leicester, was slain with him at the battle of Lewes, leaving his two sisters; Agnes, Wife of Sir William de Criketot; and Rohese, wife of Robert de Valoines, his heirs.
Bank's The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England, Volume I, pp. 37-38
William married Cicely de Vere.983 (Cicely de Vere was born about 1164 in Hatfield, Essex, England.)
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