BLOUNT

BLOUNT. French hlond, fair-haired, light-complexioned. Tlie great baronial house of Blount, lords Moimtjoy, deduced themselves from William, son of Blound, earl of Guisnes, one of the companions of the Conqueror, who was traditionally derived from the Bimdi of Italy and the Flavii of classical Rome ! It is probable that there are several families so designated from the personal peculiarity of the original assumers, without any consanguinity. It has taken various forms ; as for example in the H.R. le Blond, le Blont, Blunt, le Blunte, le Blonnd, &c. It may be regarded as the Anglo-Norman synonym of our indigenous White ; and some of the Irish Blunts have in recent times translated it into AMiite. The Norwegian royal surname, Harfa(jer, means ' fair-haired,' and in the H.R. we have a Flaxenuehed.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.