James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy (c. 1533 – 1582) was an English peer.

Life

Blount was born circa 1533 in

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, the eldest son of

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(1516–1544) and Ann Willoughby. He inherited his title on the death of his father. He was made a

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at the coronation of Queen Mary (29 September 1553); and was

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in 1559. He was one of the commissioners who tried the Duke of Norfolk in 1572, and spent the fortune of his family in the pursuit of

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encouraged him in the manufacture of

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and

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between 1566 and 1572. Blount also had a reputation as a supporter of Protestantism, in line with that of his father and grandfather. Henry Bennet lauded him in 1561, mentioning also his patronage of Eliseus Bomelius, and the same year Jean Veron dedicated to him an anti-papal tract.

Family

On 17 May 1558, he married Catherine Leigh, daughter of Thomas Leigh of Durham St. Oswalds, Yorkshire. They had five children: William,

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, Christopher, Ann, and Edward. On his death on 10 October 1582, in Hook (near

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), the title passed to his eldest son William Blount, 7th Baron Mountjoy.

References

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