John Blytone

John Blytone was the first known City of [London swords|sword-bearer] of the City of London, a position he resigned in 1395. In 1384 he was arrested and Richard [II of England|King Richard II] wrote to the Lord [Mayor of London] Nicholas Brembre and the Sheriffs of the [City of London] on 14 June, and to Brembre again on 15 June, "bidding them deliver Robert Cumbertone and John Blytone, who had been arrested in London, to Edmund Tettesworth and Thomas Hore, the King's Serjeants-at-arms, to conduct to Corfe Castle, as their continued presence in London was likely to cause a disturbance, as it had done on a former occasion." He was granted the "Gate of Aldrichgate" for life when he resigned in 1395.