Courtier and patron
Charles Blount was born at Tournai while his father, William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, was governor there. He succeeded as 5th Baron Mountjoy after his father’s death in 1534.
He attended the House of Lords, sat on trial panels for major Tudor peers, and was known as a patron of learning. He granted asylum to the priest Richard Whitford after the dissolution of Syon Abbey.
Blount drew up his will in 1544 before joining the French expedition and died later that year at Hooke, Dorset, probably from illness contracted on campaign.