John Montagu -1st Baron Montagu

• Preferred Name: John Montagu -1st Baron Montagu^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Alternate Name: John de Montacute
  
• Gender: M
  
• MilitaryService: Battle of Crecy26 AUG 1346 in Crécy, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France at LATI: N8.85 LONG: E0.9167 with note: Family Search
  
• Military: in Cressy, Normandy, France at LATI: N9.7236 LONG: E0.1667 with note: Description: Fought at Cressy
  
• MilitaryService: Battle of Poitiers19 SEP 1356 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France at LATI: N6.5833 LONG: E0.3333 with note: Family Search
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1st Baron Montagu
  
• Other: liv abt 1320 in Eng. at LATI: N2.4379 LONG: E1.6496
  
• FSID: KN45-WJB
  
• Occupation: Steward of the Household of King Richard IIBET 1381 AND 1386 with note: Family Search
  
• Birth: 1328 in Somerset, England at LATI: N1.1197 LONG: E2.9
  
• Death: 25 FEB 1389 in Stokenham, Devon, England at LATI: N0.2742 LONG: E3.6765
  
• Burial: 1389 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.0687 LONG: E1.794
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  John Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu
  John de Montacute (c. 1330 – c. 1390) was a 14th-century English nobleman and loyal servant of King Edward III. He was the son of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury by his wife Catherine Grandison, and younger brother of William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (1328–1397). He also had several younger sisters.
  
  Montacute was summoned to parliament in 1357. Jean Froissart named "Lord John Mountacute" as one of the participants with King Edward III at the Siege of Calais in 1349.
  
  He married Margaret de Monthermer, daughter and heiress of Thomas de Monthermer, 2nd Baron de Monthermer by his wife Margaret de Brewes.
  Their children included
  1. John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c. 1350 – 1400);
  2. Eleanor Montacute, who married John Dinham (1359–1428);
  3. Thomas Montagu, Dean of Salisbury Cathedral; and
  4. Sybil Montagu, Prioress of Amesbury.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_1st_Baron_Montagu
  
  Memorial
  Lord Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Knight of Wark-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland, of Stokenham, Davon and of St Clemens Danes.
  
  Younger son of Sir William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury and Marshal of En
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 3/2009:
  John Montagu
  M, #2060, b. circa 1329, d. 1396
  John Montagu|b. c 1329\nd. 1396|p206.htm#i2060|William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury|b. 1301\nd. bt 30 Jan 1343 - 1344|p197.htm#i1964|Catherine Grandison|b. 1304\nd. 23 Nov 1349|p206.htm#i2056|Sir William Montague, 2nd Lord Montagu|b. 1271\nd. 1319|p196.htm#i1960|Lady Elizabeth Montfort|b. 1271\nd. c Aug 1354|p201.htm#i2010|William Grandison, 1st Lord Grandison|b. b 1291|p206.htm#i2058||||
  Last Edited=22 Aug 2005
  John Montagu was born circa 1329 at Donyatt, Somerset, England .1 He was the son of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Catherine Grandison. He married Margaret Monthermer .1 He died in 1396.1
  John Montagu was also known as Sir John de Montacute.1
  Child of John Montagu and Margaret Monthermer
  John de Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury + b. c 1350, d. 5 Jan 14001
  Citations
  [S125 ] Richard Glanville-Brown, online >, Richard Glanville-Brown (RR 2, Milton, Ontario, Canada), downloaded 17 August 2005.
  
  === !SOURCES: 1. Visitations of Devonshire, ===
  !SOURCES: 1. Visitations of Devonshire, Eng. Pub. AC, v. 6, p. 264 2. The Complete Peerage, G.E.C., Eng. V., v.9, p. 86-89 3. The Royal Dau. of Eng., England. 120, v. 1, p. 185, 187 4. Stafford Gen., A11A63, p. 374
  
  === !Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Cen ===
  !Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the North American Colonies before 1701 by Davis Faris First Edition. He was Steward of the Household to King Richard II, 1381-1386-1387
  
  === Fought n the campaign in France, 1346-47 ===
  Fought n the campaign in France, 1346-47 in the retinue of hisbrother, the Earl of Salisbury, and then in the campaign of the Princeof Wales from the time of the landing at La Hogue on July 12, 1346, atthe battle of Crecy on August 26, and at the siege of Calais whichfell August 4, 1347. He was with the Prince of Wales in France in1356 and fought on September 19, 1356 at Poitiers. Early in 1378 hewas retained to serve the King as a banneret with a force consistingof another banneret, 5 knights, 53 esquires, and 60 archers and inJuly took part in the Duke of Lancaster's abortive attack on St. Malo.In 1384 he had a dispute with his brother William which the Court ofChivalry decided against him and was subsequently removed by the Kingfrom the office of Steward of the Household (Complete Peerage, VolIX:87-88).
  
  === John was 3rd Earl Salisbury, Baron de Mo ===
  John was 3rd Earl Salisbury, Baron de Montagu and Captain of the King's army in Ireland 1394-95. He succeeded his uncle as Earl of Salisbury in 1397. In 1398 he became Deputy Earl Marshal of England. He was Joint Ambassador to France in December 1398 and Joint Ambassador to treat with Scotland March 22, 1399. John sided with Richard II against Henry Bollinbroke, the future Henry IV. After Henry's success in the usurption of the Crown of England John was beheaded on 7 Jan 1400.
  
  === Steward to the Household of King Richard ===
  Steward to the Household of King Richard II, 1381-1386/7.
  
  === JOHN DE MONTACU, younger son of William ===
  JOHN DE MONTACU, younger son of William (DE MONTAGU) 1st EARL OF SALISBURY, by Katherine DE GRANDISON, was born in London, and baptixed in St. Paul's. Having married Margaret, daughter and heir of Thomas DE MONTHERMER [LORD MONTHERMER], he had seisin of her lands on 20 December 1343. On his father's death he succeeded to the reversion of the manor and castle of Wark-upon-Tweed, and had livery under writ of 17 June 1344. He fought in the campaign in France, 1346-47, in the retinue of his brother the Earl of Salisbury, and then in that of the Prince of Wales, from the time of the landing at La Hogue, 12 July 1346 at the battle of Crécy, 26 August, and at the siege of Calais, which fell 4 August 1347. On 28 August 1354, as Dominus de Werk, he, with other magnates, joined the Prince of Wales in appointing proxies to treat with France; and before October of that year was a knight of the Prince's household. He was with the Prince of Wales in France in 1356, and fought on 19 September at Poitiers. He was summoned to Parliament from 15 December 1357 to 6 December 1389, by writs directed Johanni de Monte Acufo, whereby he is held to have become LORD MONTAGU. In the autumn of 1359 he went with the Prince again to France, and on his return, from 1361, was appointed on numerous commissions of peace, oyer and termwer, array, &c., in Hants and Devon. He made a grant in October 1365 to the sacristan of Exeter Cathedral, and in this and the following year received grants from his uncle, John de Grandison, Bishop of Exeter. In September 1372, as John de Montagu the father, he was going abroad on the King's service with his brother the Earl of Salisbury for the relief of Rochelle, but the expedition was abandoned. In July 1373 and in later years he was a commissioner to gmacrd Southampton and the coast. He was nominated on an embassy to treat with France, 20 February 1376/7, and in July did homage at the Coronation of Richard II in Westminster Abbey; and from then on till his death he was a trier of petitions in Parliament. Early in 1378 he was retained to serve the King as a banneret, with a force consisting of another banneret, 5 knights, 53 esquires, and 60 archers, and in July took part in the Duke of Lancaster's abortive attack on St. Malo. When the peasants revolted in Essex in June 1381, he was charged with making proclamations against such risings in Hants and Wilts, and to deal with any insurgents escaping from Kent. As Steward he was one of the three members of the King's household deputed in December to receive Anne of Bohemia on her arrival in England for her marriage with Richard II. In June 1382 he was appointed to survey the castle of Marlborough, and in September 1384 sat with two judges at the Tower in connection with disturbances in the city. At the end of that year he had a dispute with his brother William, Earl of Salisbury, which the Court of Chivalry decided against him, whereupon he appealed, but unsuccessfully, to the King. He was removed by the King from the office of Steward of the Household in January 1386/7. He married, before the end of 1343, Margaret, according to modern doctrine, suojure BARONESS MONTHERMER, daughter and heir of Thomas DE MONTHERMER [LORD MONTHERMER]. He died 25 February or 4 March 1389/90,) and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral. On 12 June 1390 his widow, having done homage, had restored to her various manors which she held in her own right, and she received dower under writs of 9 April 1392. She died 24 March 1394/5, intestate. [Complete Peerage IX:86-8]
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.41, 48; VISITATIONS OF DEVONSHIRE, VOL 6 P.164, 264; THE COMPLETE PEERAGE VOL 9, P.86, 87, 88, 89; THE ROYAL DAUGHTERS OF ENGLAND, VOL 1 P.182, 185, 187; STAFFORD GENEALOGY P.374; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === He was Lord Montagu, of Wark-upon-Tweed, ===
  He was Lord Montagu, of Wark-upon-Tweed, s. of Sir William de Montagu, d. 1344 by wife Katherine. Ref: Ancestral Roots, Weis, 7th Edition, 1992, Line 8A-31.

• m. 2 JUL 1350 in Stokenham, Devon, England

1. John Montagu 3rd Earl of Salisbury, b. ABT 1350 in England     d. 6 JAN 1400 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England

1. Title: John de Montagu, Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Montagu,_1st_Baron_Montagu;
   Note: John de Montacute (c. 1330 – c. 1390)... was the son of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury by his wife Catherine Grandison... He married Margaret de Monthermer, daughter and heiress of Thomas de Monthermer, 2nd Baron de Monthermer by his wife Margaret de Brewes... Their children included John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c. 1350 – 1400); Eleanor Montacute, who married John Dinham (1359–1428);[3] Thomas Montagu, Dean of Salisbury Cathedral; and Sybil Montagu, Prioress of Amesbury.
   
2. Title: John de Montagu, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVC-GRVC : 6 March 2021), John de Montagu, ; Burial, Salisbury, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England, Salisbury Cathedral; citing record ID 11276296, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVC-GRVC;
   
3. Title: Sir John De Montagu, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-NF7R : 11 July 2020), Sir John De Montagu, 1390; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-NF7R;
   
4. Title: Source
   Publication: Name: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1118.htm#i33572;