John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and 5th and 2nd Baron Montagu,
Early life
He was the son of Sir
He was summoned to parliament in 1391 as
With the death of his mother in 1395, John inherited the
Early in 1399, he went to France on a successful mission to prevent the proposed marriage of Henry Bolingbroke and a daughter of the Duke of Berry. In May, he again accompanied Richard II on an expedition to Ireland. When news reached them of that Bolingbroke had returned to England, Montagu was sent to Wales to raise opposing forces. When these deserted, Montagu advised King Richard to flee to Bordeaux. Instead, Richard was imprisoned, Henry took the throne and, in October, Montagu was arrested along with many of Richard's former councillors, and held in the Tower of London.
Marriage and issue
He married
- Alice Montagu, suo jure 5th Countess of Salisbury, only child and sole heiress, who married Richard Neville, jure uxoris 5th Earl of Salisbury. Alice's son was Henry VIII.
- Alice Montagu, suo jure 5th Countess of Salisbury, only child and sole heiress, who married Richard Neville, jure uxoris 5th Earl of Salisbury. Alice's son was
- Robert Montagu, who married Mary de Devon
- Richard Montagu (d. after 1400), who died unmarried and
- Anne Montagu (d.1457), who married firstly (as his 2nd wife) Sir Richard Hankford[2] (c. 1397 – 1431) of Annery, Monkleigh in Devon, feudal baron of Bampton in Devon.[10] Their descendants include Anne Boleyn. After the death of Sir Richard, Anne married secondly Sir John FitzLewis by whom she had further issue, and thirdly, she married John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter by whom she had no issue.[2][11]
- Margaret Montagu (d. before 1416), who married William Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby, without issue.[2][7]
- Elizabeth Montagu (d. about 1448), who married Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby,[2] by whom she had one daughter, Joan Willoughby, suo jure 7th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.[12]
Downfall and death
Montagu had to answer charges related to the arrest and subsequent death of the Duke of Gloucester in 1397. Eventually, he was released, due to the intercession of King Henry's sister Elizabeth, Countess of Huntingdon. Not long after his release, Montagu joined with the Earl of Huntingdon and a group of other barons in the Epiphany Rising, a plot to kill King Henry IV and restore Richard II. After the plot failed, mob violence ensued, and he was caught by a mob of townspeople at Cirencester, held without trial, and executed by beheading on 7 January 1400. His eldest son, Thomas – by Maud Francis daughter of London citizen, Adam Francis – eventually recovered the Earldom, though the attainder against John Montagu was not reversed until the accession of Edward IV in 1461.
References
- ^ G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IV, page 437.
- ^ a b c d e f g h George Frederick Beltz., editor David Nash Ford. Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, 1841. Royal Berkshire History
- ^ Douglas Richardson Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (2013), p.205. Our Royal, Ititled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
- ^ Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (2005), p. 576.
- ^ History of Parliament biography of his son [1]
- ^ "Probably originally as part of a mortgage made c. 1361, William de Say granted the manor (of Edmonton, Middlesex) to Adam Francis (Fraunceys), Mercer of London, who had already built up an estate in Edmonton. In 1369 Francis granted it to feoffees, who in 1371 settled it on him for life with remainder to his son Adam in fee. Sir Adam Francis I died in 1375 and was succeeded by his son, Sir Adam Francis II (d.1417), who left all his lands to be divided between his widow and his two daughters." (Source: A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, Eileen P Scarff and G C Tyack, 'Edmonton: Manors', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5, Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham, ed. T F T Baker and R B Pugh (London, 1976), pp. 149-154 [2]
- ^ a b Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, pg 508–510.
- ^ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Vol. XI, pg 393.
- ^ John Burke. A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance, 1831. pg 362. Google eBook
- ^ Prince, John (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, p.462, biography of Sir William Hankford; Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.64, manor of Bampton
- ^ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 373.
- ^ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Vol. XII/2, pg 665.
Notes
- Hunt, William (1894). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 205–206.
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