Montgomerie family
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The Montgomery family or de Montgomerie is a prominent family of
House of Belleme
.
History
The original family rose to prominence during the 10th century in the new Duchy of Normandy.
House of Belleme, from which he would acquire the titles of seigneur de Bellême, count of Alençon and count of Ponthieu.[4] After his death in 1094, the Welsh will organized an attack and conquer all their estates in Wales, leaving only Pembroke Castle standing to this day.[5]
At the beginning of the 12th century, the family will support
House of FitzGerald, the House of Burgundy, the House of Blois, the House of Capet, the House of Warenne, and many others.[8]
Notable offspring
- Roger de Montgomery, seigneur of Montgomery († 1048), member of the family of William the Conqueror, grandnephew of Archbishop Robert II, regent of Normandy for William.
- Gilbert de Montgomery († 1040), who in 1063 was claimed by Orderic to have been poisoned by Countess Mabel de Bellême
- Roger de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury(† 1094), counselor to William the Conqueror, held 159 manors, his estates amounted to 3% of England's gdp
- Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury († 1098), fought against the King of Norway, Magnus Barefoot, at the Battle of Anglesey Sound. He was also known as Hugh the Red.[9]
- Arnulf de Montgomery (c. 1066 - c. 1120), married to Lafracota, daughter of the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain. He established himself at Pembroke and was styled the Earl of Pembroke.
- Robert de Bellême († 1130), 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Count of Ponthieu, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy between the sons of William the Conqueror. A member of the powerful House of Bellême, he held 34 castles and 3 abbeys and was the richest magnate of both England and Normandy.[10][11]
- Matilda de Montgomery, married to Robert, Count of Mortain and 2nd Earl of Cornwall, was the half-brother of William the Conqueror
- county of Ponthieu.
- William III of Ponthieu and Helie of Burgundy, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy. Fought the Second Crusade.
- Count of Alençon, son of William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu, and Helie of Burgundy, of the House of Burgundy.
- William IV, Count of Ponthieu, married to Princess Alys, daughter of Louis VII, King of France and Queen Constance of Castile. Alys was initially betrothed to Richard the Lionheart.
- Robert I, Count of Alençon, his daughter Mathilde married to Theobald VI, Count of Blois, of the House of Blois, great-grandson of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England.
- Prince-Bishop William de St-Calais of Durham Castle.
See also
- House of Bellême
- Count of Ponthieu
- Counts of Alençon
- Earls of Eaglesham, Eglinton and Ardrossan
- Clan Montgomery
References
- ^ C. Warren Hollister, Henry I (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003), p. 155
- ^ Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. pp. 101–103.
- ^ Oliver, Nixon (December 1998). "Hendomen: the Motte and Bailey Castle at Montgomery". Powys Digital History Project. p. 2. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- S2CID 162874918.
- ^ Kenyon, JR (2010). The Medieval Castles of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press
- ^ Lieberman, M (2010). The Medieval March of Wales: The Creation and Perception of a Frontier, 1066–1283. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- ^ Curtis, E (1921). "Murchertach O'Brien, High King of Ireland, and His Norman Son-in-Law, Arnulf de Mont-Gomery, circa 1100". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 11 (2): page 116–124.
- ^ Chandler, V (1989). "The Last of the Montgomerys: Roger the Poitevin and Arnulf". Historical Research. 62, 1–14.
- ^ Nicholas Carlisle, A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, a Continuation of the Topography of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 308. Oxford Univ. Press, 1811.
- ^ C. Warren Hollister (2001). "Henry I". New Haven : Yale University Press. : page 154-155
- ISBN 0300098294. : page 155
External links
- The First Dynasty of Ponthieu - in French
- The Dynasty of Belleme/Montgomery - in French
- Montgomery family The Montgomery Family, Earls of Shrewsbury albeit with some mistakes, attributing Robert de Belleme's sister-in-law to his first wife.
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