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Name
Sir John Blount
Birth
by 1471
Death
27 Feb 1531
Occupation
English politician
Spouses
Unmarried
Children
Elizabeth
(ca1500-1540)
Notes for Sir John Blount
Sir John Blount
(by 1471 – 27 February 1531) was an English politician.
He was born the eldest son of Sir Thomas Blount of
Kinlet Hall
,
Shropshire
. He succeeded his father c.1525 and was knighted in 1529.
He served as a
Justice of the Peace
(J.P.) for
Staffordshire
in 1520–1526 and for Shropshire from 1529 to his death. He fought as a captain in the English army
besieging Tournai
in 1513 and later accompanied
Henry VIII
to France in 1520 to attend the famous meeting between Henry and
Francis I of France
at the
Field of the Cloth of Gold
.
Kilde:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blount_(died_1531)
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