Thomas de Montagu
Male after 31 Dec 1389 - 3 November 1428
Born, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
Died, Orleans, Loiret, France.
Married to Eleanor de Holand.
n 14 June 1409, after he had proved his age and done fealty, all that his father had held in fee tail was restored to him; and he was summoned to Parliament as EARL OF SALISBURY, 26 October following. In 1412 he sailed with the expedition to France. K.G. From July to October 1414 he was occupied in treating for peace, and for the marriage of Henry V to Katharine of France. While waiting to sail at Southampton, 1415, a commissioner to try the conspirators on behalf of the Earl of March, and one of the body of peers who tried the Earl of Cambridge and Lord Scrope, when they claimed trial by their peers. On 26 April 1419, for his outstanding services, he received a grant of the Comtâe of Perche in tail male, and was appointed Lt. General of Normandy and the Marches South of the Seine; in 1420, of the whole Duchy, with Maine. After the English defeat at Baugâe, he made a notable raid through Maine into Anjou. In March 1426 he had a dispensation from his vow to revisit the Holy Sepulchre. In November he was in England as P.C. In August 1428 he proceeded to besiege Orleans; a shot from the city wounded him, and he died a week later at Meung-sur-Loire.ter of Richard (FITZALAN), EARL OF ARUNDFL, and, in 1408, coheir of her brother Edmund, EARL OF KENT. In 1401 she received an annuity of ¹100 out of the Wilts manors of the late Earl. Robes of the Garter were issued to her in 1413 and later. She was buried at Bisham. He married, 2ndly, before November 1424, Alice, widow (having been 3rd wife) of Sir John PHILIP (died at Harfleur, 2 October 1415), only child and in 1434 heir of Thomas CHAUCER, Chief Butler to Richard II and Henry IV, Speaker of the House of Commons, by Maud, daughter and coheir of Sir John BURGHERSH. He died s.p.m. (as above), 3 November 1428, "had his mass" at St. Paul's, 29 November, and was buried, in accordance with his will, at Bisham. His widow married, 3rdly (royal licence, 11 November 1430), William (DE LA POLE), EARL (afterwards DUKE) OF SUFFOLK, who was murdered 2 May 1450. She died 20 May 1475, and was buried at Ewelme. [Complete Peerage XI:393-5, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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