Sir Christopher Blount was an English soldier, secret agent, and rebel.
11 Facts About Christopher Blount
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Christopher Blount served as a leading household officer of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.
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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 1588.
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Christopher Blount's mother was Margery Poley, daughter of Edmund Poley of Badley.
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Christopher Blount corresponded with Thomas Morgan in Paris, the exiled agent of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Leicester trusted Christopher Blount, calling him "Mr Kytt" and caring for his well-being.
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Christopher Blount served in the Netherlands Campaign from 1585 till 1587, when Leicester was Governor-General there.
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Lady Leicester and Sir Christopher Blount were busy repaying the Earl of Leicester's colossal debts and were engaged in numerous lawsuits because of this.
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Christopher Blount was Member of Parliament for Staffordshire, where he lived, in the Parliaments of 1593 and 1597; he was elected at the insistence of the Earl of Essex, who was influential in the county.
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In 1596, Christopher Blount was a colonel in the Cadiz expedition, and in 1597 in that to the Azores.
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Christopher Blount was beheaded about four weeks after Essex on Tower Hill for high treason.