Earl of Newport, in the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

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, was a title in the Peerage of England

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. It was created in 1628 for Mountjoy Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy

Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport

Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport , created Baron Mountjoy in the Irish peerage , baron Mountjoy of Thurveston in the English peerage and Earl of Newport was appointed master of ordnance to Charles I of England and played an ambiguous part in the early years of the English Civil War.He was...

, an illegitimate son of Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire

Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire

Charles Blount , 8th Baron Mountjoy and 1st Earl of Devonshire was an English nobleman and soldier who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I, then as Lord Lieutenant under King James I.-Early life:...

. He had already been created Baron Mountjoy, of Mountjoy Fort in the County of Tyrone

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, in the Peerage of Ireland

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 in 1618, and Baron Mountjoy, of Thurveston (modern day Thurvaston

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) in the County of Derby

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, in the Peerage of England in 1627. The latter title was originally created with precedence ahead of those barons created between 20 May and 5 June 1627. This precedence was later revoked by the House of Lords

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. The first Earl's three surviving sons were "all idiots", and some confusion exists as to their names and dates of death. Parish registers indicate that the second Earl, named either George or Mountjoy, died at Newport House in London, and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields

St Martin-in-the-Fields

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 in March 1675; his brother Thomas, the third Earl, was buried at Weyhill

Weyhill

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 in May 1675; and their youngest brother Henry was buried at Great Harrowden

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 (home of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Knollys) in September 1679. Upon his death, all of his father's titles became extinct.

Earls of Newport (1628–1679)

• Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport
  Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport
  Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport , created Baron Mountjoy in the Irish peerage , baron Mountjoy of Thurveston in the English peerage and Earl of Newport was appointed master of ordnance to Charles I of England and played an ambiguous part in the early years of the English Civil War.He was...
  
  (1597–1666)
• Mountjoy (George) Blount, 2nd Earl of Newport (d. 1675)
• Thomas Blount, 3rd Earl of Newport (d. 1675)
• Henry Blount, 4th Earl of Newport (d. 1679)