Christopher Blount

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Christopher Blount
Born1555/1556
Died18 March 1601
St. Peter ad Vincula, London
NationalityEnglish
Known forSoldier and secret agent
SpouseLettice Knollys
Parent(s)Sir Thomas Blount
Margery Poley

Sir Christopher Blount (1555/1556

high treason
.

Career

Blount's stepson, the Earl of Essex. Blount was a conspirator in the rebellion of 1601.

Christopher Blount was born in

Catholics in contrast to the Blount family who had adopted the reformed religion. As a child Christopher Blount was sent to Louvain to be privately tutored by William Allen.[3]

Despite being a Catholic, he was

Governor-General there.[7]

In the spring of 1589, about seven months after the Earl's death, Blount married the Earl's widow, Lettice Knollys, whom Queen Elizabeth reportedly hated for having married the Earl of Leicester.[clarification needed][8] Accordingly, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Lettice's son and the new favourite of the Queen, termed this an "unhappy choice".[9] Lettice seems to have been very happy with her choice, as is shown by her later correspondence.[10] 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.[1]

Blount was

latter's rebellion in 1601
.

On Sunday, 8 February, he tried to raise

high treason.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Hammer 2008
  2. ^ Adams 1995 p. 464
  3. ^ a b Haynes 1992 p. 55
  4. ^ Adams 1995 p. 463
  5. ^ Jenkins 2002 pp. 299–300
  6. ^ Jenkins 2002 p. 339; Adams 2002 p. 190
  7. ^ Adams 2002 p. 333
  8. ^ Lacey 1971 p. 15; Hammer 1999 p. 280
  9. ^ Hammer 1999 p. 34
  10. ^ Jenkins 2002 p. 366
  11. ^ Lacey 1971 pp. 101–102
  12. ^ Lacey 1971 p. 293

References

  • Adams, Simon (1995): Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester Cambridge
    ISBN 0-521-55156-0
  • Adams, Simon (2002): Leicester and the Court: Essays in Elizabethan Politics Manchester UP
    ISBN 0-7190-5325-0
  • Hammer, P.E.J. (1999): The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 1585–1597 Cambridge UP
    ISBN 0-521-01941-9
  • Hammer, P.E.J. (2008): "Blount, Sir Christopher (1555/6–1601)",
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    , online edn. Jan 2008 (subscritption required) Retrieved 2010-04-04
  • Haynes, Alan (1992): Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services 1570–1603 Alan Sutton
    ISBN 0-7509-0037-7
  • ISBN 1-84212-560-5
  • ISBN 0-297-00320-8
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