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

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He married Maude, dau. of Sir Adam Francis, Knight (she was
the widow, first of John Aubrey, second of Sir Allan Boxhull, Knight
of the Garter). Their children were, Thomas, the eldest son, who was
afterward 4th Earl of Salisbury, Richard, who died without issue, and
three daughters, Anne, (3 times married) Margaret, and Elizabeth.
XIII. Sir Thomas Montague, Fourth Earl of Salisbury and
eldest son of the 3d Earl, was only twelve years of age at his father's
death. Though the great estate, of which the last earl had been
possessed, was now forfeited, yet a considerable part of it was recovered
before his son became of age and at last, in the reign of Henry
V., he retained a reversion of his father's attainder and was restored
in blood.
This noble Earl was concerned in so many military exploits, that
to give an account of them all, would be to write the history of
the reign of Henry V. Suffice to say, that as he lived so he died in
the service of his Country, for, having been mortally wounded by a
stone, shot from a cannon at the siege of Orleans, he was carried to
Meun on the Loire where he departed this life in November, 1428.
He was twice married. First to Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Holland,
sister of Edmond, Earl of Kent. Second to Alice, dau. of Thomas
Chaucer. He had but one child, a daughter Alice. His body was
brought to England and interred by the side of his ancestors in the
Abbey at Bisham.
XIV. Alice Montague, dau. of General Thomas above men-
tioned, became at his death Countess of Salisbury.
She m. Sir Richard Nevil, who in her right became Earl of Salis-
bury. He was the eldest son of Ralph, first Earl of Westmoreland.
He followed the York party, was taken prisoner in a battle at Wake-
field and beheaded. At his death, their eldest son, Richard Nevil,
succeeded to the title of Earl of Salisbury, and, in right of his father,
Earl of Warwick.
He was that Earl of Warwick, to whom the House of York owe
their ascent to the throne. He also bore the titles of lord Monthermer,
great chamberlain and High Admiral of England, lord Warden
of the north marches toward Scotland and High Steward of the Duchy
of Lancaster, and among his many titles, was also known as " the
King maker." He was a man of invincible courage and took delight
in dangers, engaged his country in a fresh civil war in which he lost