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Blount, James (1533 - 1581)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1533
Death Date: 1581-10-20

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Leigh, Katherine ( - 1576)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1558
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 6th Baron Mountjoy

Titles

  • 6th Baron Mountjoy
    Assumed: 1544-10-10
    Vacated: 1581-10-20
  • Knight of the Bath
    Assumed: 1533
    Vacated: 1581-10-20

Details of Offices

Began
Lord Lieut, Dorset 1559 -5 -26
JP, Dorset 1561/2
JP, Wiltshire 1561/2
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Dorset 1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Somerset 1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Southampton 1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Wiltshire 1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Hampshire 1564
JP, Dorset 1564
JP, Wiltshire 1564

Details of Properties

Residence

  • London (city-county)
    Source=CP, 342-3.
  • Silver Street, London (city-county)
  • Apethorpe, Northamptonshire
  • Hooke Court, Dorset
    (Performance Venue)
    Divested: 1581-10
    Patrimony; died here

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Lord Mountjoy's Minstrel
Performance - Poole (Unknown), Poole, Dorset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Poole (Unknown), Poole, Dorset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Wells, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Bristol, Bristol (city-county) in Gloucestershire Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Wells, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Bath, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Keswick (Unknown), Keswick, Cumberland Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Lyme Regis (Unknown), Lyme Regis, Dorset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Sprytwell's, Dover, Kent Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Abingdon, Berkshire Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Poole (Unknown), Poole, Dorset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall (2), Barnstaple, Devon Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Grimsby, Lincolnshire Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Lyme Regis (Unknown), Lyme Regis, Dorset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Totnes, Devon Lord Mountjoy's Players
Dismissal - Gloucester (Unknown), Gloucester, Gloucestershire Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Lyme Regis (Unknown), Lyme Regis, Dorset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Abingdon, Berkshire Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - New Romney (Unknown), New Romney, Kent Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Bath, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Rye (Unknown), Rye, Sussex Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Bath, Somerset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Lyme Regis (Unknown), Lyme Regis, Dorset Lord Mountjoy's Players
Performance - Dartmouth (Unknown), Dartmouth, Devon Lord Mountjoy's Servants

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
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Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
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Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
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Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
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Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
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Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
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Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
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Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Players Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1
Lord Mountjoy's Minstrel Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Mountjoy's Servants Blount, James (1533 - 1581) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Hooke Court Dorset Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I [1558–78]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1939--82
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.