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Sir Christopher Blount (1555/1556 – 18 March 1601) was an English soldier, secret agent, and rebel. He served as a leading household officer of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. A Catholic, Blount corresponded with Mary, Queen of Scots's Paris agent, Thomas Morgan, probably as a double agent.
18 de mar. de 2023 · On 18th March 1601, just six days before the day of Queen Elizabeth I, soldier, secret agent and rebel Sir Christopher Blount was executed on Tower Hill for high treason.
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Sir Christopher Blount (1555/1556 – 18 March 1601) was an English soldier, secret agent, and rebel. He served as a leading household officer of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. A Catholic, Blount corresponded with Mary, Queen of Scots's Paris agent, Thomas Morgan, probably as a double agent. After the Earl of Leicester's death he married the D...
Christopher Blount was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, the younger son of Thomas Blount, a relative of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester on the Earl's mother's side, and one of his chief household officers until his death in 1568. Blount's mother was Mary Poley from a Suffolk Catholic family. As a child Christopher Blount was sent to Louvain to be privately tutored by William Allen. Despite being a Catholic, he was Gentleman of the Horse to the Earl of Leicester by 1584. He corresponded with Thomas Morgan in Paris, the exiled agent of Mary, Queen of Scots. Apparently Blount offered to "do [her] notable service". In his dealings with Morgan Blount probably had the backing of Leicester and Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster. Leicester trusted Blount, calling him "Mr. Kytt" and caring for his well-being. Blount served in the Netherlands Campaign from 1585 till 1587, when Leicester was Governor-General there.
In the spring of 1589, about seven months after the Earl's death, Blount married his widow, Lettice Knollys, whom Queen Elizabeth hated for having married the Earl of Leicester. Accordingly, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Lettice's son and the new favourite of the Queen, termed this an "unhappy choice". Lettice seems to have been very happy with her choice, as is shown by her later correspondence. Lady Leicester (she continued to be styled thus) and Sir Christopher were busy repaying the Earl of Leicester's colossal debts and were engaged in numerous lawsuits because of this.
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18 de mar. de 2021 · In this second part of This Week in Tudor History, historian Claire Ridgway introduces Sir Christopher Blount, a secret agent and rebel who married his master’s widow and whose stepson, the Earl of Essex was his undoing; Edmund Harman, the man who trimmed and washed King Henry VIII’s hair and beard, and who was rewarded for it ...
5 de may. de 2018 · Her third husband, Christopher Blount, joined his stepson’s rebellion against the queen and died on the executioner’s block in 1601.
On November 10, 2021, Christopher Blount tied his career high in blocks in a NCAA game. That day he went for 1 block in Bethesda University (CA) Flames's road loss against Southern Utah Thunderbirds, 116-74. He also had 7 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist.
18 de mar. de 2024 · SIR CHRISTOPHER BLOUNT. BIRTH: 1555/56, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. MARRIAGE: c. Apr 1589. DEATH: 18 Mar 1601, Tower Hill, London. BURIAL: Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London. LINEAGE. PARENTS: SIR THOMAS BLOUNT. of Kidderminster. bef.1524-d.1568. MARGERY POLEY. daughter of Edmund Poley of Badley, Suffolk. d.1595. SIBLINGS:
