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

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