History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

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Island and enjoyed it in her right many years. (Camden says it was
Simon's son William who recovered the Island.)
He had been summoned to parliament from the 28th of Edward I.
to the 8th of Edwd II. (13 15), soon after which he died. Their
issue was William and Simon de Montacute, the former succeeded
his father and continued the line, the latter was married to Hawise,
daughter of Almeric lord St. Amand.
Almeric de St. Amand was a great baron of that age whose chief
seat was at Grendon Underwood, a parish in the hundred of Ashendon
in Buckinghamshire ten miles west N. W. from Aylesbury. The male
line became extinct and the property passed (through daughters) to
other families. It would seem that Simon Montacute and Hawise de
St. Amand, his wife, probably had a son whose name was William
Montacute from the following passage taken from a very rare and
ancient work.^ " From thence he (the King) passeth on to the
Castle of Salisbury which Castle belonged to William Montacute
Earl of Salisbury in right of his wife but himself being then prisoner
in France, onely his Countesse, and one William Montacute, a cousi?i
of his was in the Castle." This William Montacute, who is called a
cousin of the first Earl of Salisbury, was therefore a son of Simon
and Hawise (Amand) Montacute, as it is recorded that the Earl's
father had only two sons. As this Simon Montacute was the
younger son, his subsequent history (and that of his son William)
is unrecorded.
IX. William, lord of Montacute, eldest son of Sir Simon de
Montacute (No. VIII.), served in several expeditions into Scotland,
both before and after his father's death, in the reigns of Edward I.
and II. In the former he also received the honor of Knighthood,
along with Edward prince of WT
ales ; and
in the second year of the
latter, he obtained the royal charter for free warren at his manor of
Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire, as he did afterward for those of
Saxlingham, in the County of Norfolk, Knolle in the County of Som-
erset, and Woneford in the County of Devon. In the same reign he
was governor of Berhamstead Castle and steward of the King's
household ;
and
had a grant of the bodies and ransoms of Rene ap
Grenon, Madock ap Vaughan and Audoen ap Madock, Welsh barons
who had rebelled and been taken prisoners.
* The work referred to is, "A Chronicle of the Kings of England by Sir Rich d Baker,
Knight." London, 1660.