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Sir Charles Blount (1568–1600) was an
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soldier during the
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.


Life

Sir Charles was the son of Sir
Michael Blount Sir Michael Blount (c. 1530–1610) was a Tudor and Jacobean royal official and politician. Early years Michael was born in Mapledurham House, Oxfordshire, the son of Richard Blount (died 1564), Sir Richard Blount (1505–1564; Lieutenant of the ...
of
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in
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and his wife, Mary Moore. Charles and his cousin and namesake
Lord Mountjoy The titles of Baron Mountjoy and Viscount Mountjoy have been created several times for members of various families, including the Blounts and their descendants and the Stewarts of Ramelton and their descendants. The first creation was for Walter ...
(the latter already being Captain of the Town and Isle of
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) became Freemen of Portsmouth on 26 December 1593. Lord Mountjoy was a kinsman of
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (; 10 November 1565 – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during th ...
both by blood and by marriage to his sister
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. This gained his cousin the Earl's patronage. Charles accompanied the Earl of Essex on a successful expedition to capture
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in June 1596, after which he was knighted,
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, ''Memorials of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth'', vol. 2 (London, 1754), p. 50. probably one among the large number Essex knighted on board ship before returning to England – so many that the
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complained, and to Ireland in 1599 (becoming "Coronell Governor" of
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in
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. He died in 1600 on the trip back to England, and was buried in St Thomas's Church, Portsmouth, now the city's cathedral, where his memorial may still be seen.


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His memorial


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16th-century English soldiers
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