Sir Charles Blount (1568–1600) was an English soldier during the Tudor period.
Lord Mountjoy was a kinsman of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex both by blood and by marriage to his sister Penelope.
Charles accompanied the Earl of Essex on a successful expedition to capture Cádiz in June 1596, after which he was knighted,[1] probably one among the large number Essex knighted on board ship before returning to England – so many that the Queen complained, and to Ireland in 1599 (becoming "Coronell Governor" of Cahir Castle in County Tipperary.
He died in 1600 on the trip back to England, and was buried in St Thomas's Church, Portsmouth, now the city's cathedral, where his memorial may still be seen.
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