Michael Blount

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Sir Michael Blount (c. 1530 - 1610) was a Tudor and Jacobean official.

[edit] Life

Born in Mapledurham House to Sir Richard Blount (1505-1564; Lieutenant of the Tower 1558-1564), he was Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1576 then of Oxfordshire in 1586 and 1597. He sat in the Parliaments of 1553 and 1569.

He succeeded Sir Owen Hopton of Cockfield Hall in Suffolk as Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1590 and held the post for five years until 1595, in December of which year he was briefly imprisoned in the Tower himself.[1] He and his father are buried at St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower, with a fine monument.

[edit] Marriage and issue

He married Mary Moore (d 23.12.1592, sister of Thomas Moore of Bicester), and they had 11 children:[2]

• Sir Richard Blount of Maple Durham (b 28.06.1564, d 22.11.1619)
• Katherine Blount (b 11.04.1563)
• Thomas (b 27.04.1567)
• Charles (b 05.11.1568 - d.1600)
• Henry (b 17.08.1572)
• Robert (b 03.02.1573)
• Maria (b 15.11.1565)
• Elizabeth (dsp)
• Anna (dsp)
• Frances (b 23.02.1569)
• Elizabeth (b 28.07.1574)