Family and Education
Yr. s. of Thomas Blount of Kidderminster by Margery, da. of William Poley of Badley, Suff. educ. by William (later Cardinal) Allen at Louvain. m. July 1589, Lettice, da. of Sir Francis Knollys, wid. of Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex and of Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, s.p. Kntd. 1588.
Offices Held
Capt. of horse in Netherlands to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 1586; col. of ft. at Cadiz 1596; capt. of levies, Warws., Herefs., Glos. 1597; on Azores expedition 1597; in Ireland 1599.
J.p.q. Warws. from 1594; j.p. Staffs. from 1594, q. by 1596.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Kidderminster, Worcs.; Drayton Bassett, Staffs.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
BLOUNT, Sir Christopher (-d.1601)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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