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MONTAGU (Family)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 746 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTAGU (See also:Family)  . Dru of Montaigu or Motitagud, the ancestor of the Montagus, earls of See also:Salisbury, came to See also:England with See also:Robert, See also:count of See also:Mortain, See also:half-See also:brother of See also:William the Conqueror . He is found in Domesday among the See also:chief tenants of the count in See also:Somerset, where Dru held the See also:manor of Shepton, afterwards called Shepton See also:Montagu . Upon the See also:hill of Lutgaresburg, in Bishopston, Robert built the See also:castle which he called Montaigu—but there is no See also:reason for believing that Dru's surname was derived from the castle, he being probably a See also:Norman See also:born—from Montaigu or Montaigu-See also:les-bois, both in the neighbourhood of Mortain . The Domesday holding of Dru is represented in the return of 1166 by the ten knights' See also:fee upon which his descendant, another Dru, is assessed . William Montagu of Shepton is among the knights summoned by See also:Henry III. to the Gascon See also:War and to the Welsh border in 1257 . His son See also:Simon, the first of the See also:family to make a figure in See also:history, followed See also:Edward I. in 1277 against Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, being then, as it would appear, a See also:minor, and he served again in 1282, when Llywelyn's See also:power was broken for the last See also:time . By a See also:charter dated in 1290 his See also:Somersetshire manors and the manor of See also:Aston See also:Clinton were confirmed to him by a See also:grant from the See also:Crown . In 1296 a See also:ship under his command See also:broke the See also:blockade of See also:Bordeaux . In 1298 he was summoned as a See also:baron; and in 1301, as Simon See also:lord of Montagu, he sealed the famous See also:letter of the barons to the See also:pope with his See also:seal of the arms of Montagu, the counterseal showing a griffon . One of the earliest examples of quartered arms seen in England was afforded when Simon's banner displayed at See also:Falkirk in 1298 quartered this griffon, See also:gold on a See also:blue See also:field, with the Montagu's indented fesse of three fusils . He died in 1317 and was succeeded by his son William (d .

1319), a favourite of Edward II., whose See also:

household steward he became, and See also:seneschal of See also:Aquitaine and See also:Gascony . His eldest son, another William, came of See also:age in 1322, and in 1330 led the See also:young See also:king's partisans by the See also:secret way into See also:Nottingham Castle, and carried off the See also:earl of See also:March . The See also:day before See also:Mortimer had denounced Montagu as a traitor, but Montagu struck at once and his success was rewarded by grants from the forfeited lands of March . In 1337 he was created earl of Salisbury, and on the See also:death of See also:Thomas of Brotherton in 1338 he was made See also:marshal of England . His king employed him in See also:missions to See also:France, See also:Scotland, See also:Germany and See also:Castile, but war was, as with most of the men of his See also:house, the chief business of his See also:short See also:life . At some time between 1340 and 1342 he led an expedition of his own against the Isle of See also:Man, winning from the Scots the little See also:kingdom to which he had inherited a claim . His grandfather Simon is said to have married a certain Auff See also:ray or " Aufrica," sometimes described as " daughter of Fergus and See also:sister of Orray, king of Man," and sometimes as the See also:grand-daughter and See also:heir of See also:John de Courcy, the conqueror of See also:Ulster, whose wife Affreca " was sister of King See also:Olaf II . John de Courcy, however, died childless, and in 1287 Simon names his wife as Hawise . The second Aufrica or Affreca claimed the See also:island as heir of See also:Magnus II . (d . 1265), a letter of Edward I. in 1293 citing John of Scotland to See also:answer her See also:appeal to king John's suzerain . By her charter of 1306 the same Aufreca, styling herself " Aufreca of Counnoght, heir of the See also:land of Man," granted the island to Simon, and this grant, rather than the See also:marriage universally asserted by Simon's biographers, was probably the origin of the Montagu claim .

The first earl died in 1344 and was buried in the See also:

White-friars See also:Church in See also:London . His wife, Katherine, daughter of William de Graunson, and co-heir, in her issue, of her See also:brothers, is connected by a See also:legend of no value with the See also:foundation of the See also:Order of the Garter . Between William, his son and heir, the second earl (1328–1397) and See also:Joan of See also:Kent, daughter of See also:Edmund of See also:Woodstock, there was a See also:contract of marriage which was made null by the pope's See also:bull in 1349 . William was one of the knights-founders of the Order of the Garter, fought at See also:Crecy, and commanded the rearward See also:battle at See also:Poitiers . According to See also:Froissart he attended the young See also:Richard in Smithfield when the king faced the See also:mob after the death of Wat See also:Tyler . His only son was killed in 1383 at a See also:tournament, and in 1393 the earl sold the lordship and crown of Man to William See also:Scrope of See also:Bolton . He was succeeded by his See also:nephew John, the third earl (c . 1350-1400), son of See also:Sir John Montagu by See also:Margaret, the heir of the barons of Monthermer . The new earl was notorious as a Lollard, and was accused, after Henry IV.'s See also:accession, of a See also:share in See also:Gloucester's death, from which he was to have cleared himself in combat with the Lord See also:Morley . But he joined Kent, See also:Huntingdon and See also:Rutland in their See also:plot against Henry, and was beheaded with the earl.of Kent by the See also:Cirencester mob . By his wife See also:Maude, daughter of Sir See also:Adam See also:Francis, he had Thomas (1388–1428), who was summoned as an earl in 1409, his See also:father's dignities being restored to him in 142J, by which time his services at See also:Harfleur and Agin-See also:court had earned him See also:French lordships, the See also:lieutenant-generalship of See also:Normandy and the earldom of See also:Perche . The last of a See also:race of warriors, he ended his service at the famous See also:siege of See also:Orleans, a See also:cannon-See also:ball dashing into his See also:face the See also:stone and See also:iron-See also:work of the window from which he was gazing at the See also:city .

By his second wife, the daughter of Thomas See also:

Chaucer the See also:Speaker, he had no issue . By his first wife, Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, he had an only daughter Alice, wife of Richard See also:Neville, a younger son of the first earl of See also:Westmorland, who claimed and was allowed the earldom of Salisbury in right of his marriage . The famous " Richard Make-a-King," earl of See also:Warwick and Salisbury, was the See also:grandson of the last of the Montagu earls . Sir lydward Montagu of See also:Boughton, a chief See also:justice of the king's See also:bench who died in 1557, was ancestor of three lines of peers, the See also:dukes of Montagu, the dukes of See also:Manchester, and the earls of See also:Sandwich . These Montagus of Boughton claimed, by a false See also:pedigree, descent from the third earl of Salisbury . It is possible that there may have been some kinship between the two families, but none, apparently, that could justify the persistent quartering by these later Montagus of the arms of Monthermer . AurHoRIT1Es.–Collinson's Somerset; G . E . C.'s See also:Complete See also:Peerage; See also:Victoria See also:County History of Somerset (J . H . See also:Round's introduction to Domesday); See also:Rymer's Foedera; See also:Palgrave's See also:Parliamentary Writs; Rolls of See also:Parliament; See also:Ramsay's See also:Lancaster and See also:York; Gesta Henrici V . (See also:English Hist .

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Soc.) ; See also:Chronicles of See also:Walsingham, Knighton, Cap-See also:grave Wavrin, Frousart, See also:Monstrelet, &c . Inquests, See also:Post mortem, See also:Close, Patent, Charter and See also:Fine Rolls; See also:Dugdale's Monasticon Publications of Somerset See also:Record Society; Charters in See also:British Museum and Public Record See also:Office . (0 .

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