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WILLIAM BLOUNT

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 941 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:BLOUNT , 4th See also:Baron See also:Mountjoy (c. 1478-1534), was famous as a See also:scholar and See also:patron of learning. He was a See also:pupil of See also:Erasmus, who called him inter nobiles doctissimus. His See also:friends included See also:Colet, More and See also:Grocyn. He held a command in the force sent to suppress See also:Perkin See also:Warbeck's See also:rebellion in 1497. In 1513 he was appointed See also:governor of See also:Tournai, and his letters to See also:Wolsey and See also:Henry VIII. describing his vigorous See also:government of the See also:town are preserved in the See also:British Museum. He was See also:present with Henry VIII. at the See also:Field of the See also:Cloth of See also:Gold in 1520, and at the See also:meeting with See also:Charles V. in 1522. He had been See also:master of the See also:mint since 1509, and See also:chamberlain to See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon since 1512. It See also:fell to him in this See also:office to announce to the See also:queen Henry's intention to See also:divorce her; he also signed the See also:letter to the See also:pope conveying the See also:king's See also:threat to repudiate the papal supremacy unless the divorce were granted. Mountjoy, who was one of the wealthiest See also:English nobles of his See also:time, died in 1534. His son Charles, 5th Baron Mountjoy (1516—1544), was also a patron of learning.

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