Baron Mountjoy - Barons Mountjoy of Mountjoy Fort (1618) and Mountjoy of Thurveston (1627)

Barons Mountjoy of Mountjoy Fort (1618) and Mountjoy of Thurveston (1627)

  • Mountjoy Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy (1597–1665), created Earl of Newport in 1628
  • see Earl of Newport

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