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

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INTRODUCTION.
Montagu, 3d Earl of Salisbury, married Sir Richard Hankford and
had a dau. Anne, who married Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond,
whose dau. Margaret became the wife of William Bolin, and the
mother of Sir Thomas Bolin who was the father of Anne Bolin wife
of King Henry VIII. and mother of Queen Elizabeth. This Queen
was then of Montague blood both through her father Henry VIII.
and also through her mother Anne Bolin. The following is from
Hasted's Hist, of Co. Kent, Vol. XL, p. 92 :
"Queen
Elizabeth was
in 1 56 1 presented with a pair of silk stockings by her silk woman,
Mrs. Montague, and afterward she never wore cloth ones again."
Who this Mrs. Montague was it is difficult to say but it is known that
Sir Edward Montagu, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas, was one of the Executors of the will of
King Henry VIII. and also guardian of his son Edward who succeeded
him as King Edward VI. This Edward Montague was three times
married, and the father of seventeen children.
The elder brother of Sir Edward Montagu (who married Alice) was
Sir William Montagu, Ambassador to the Pope, Baron of Denbeigh,
Governor of Sherburn and Corrle Castles, Governor of the isles of
Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Alderney, Constable of the Tower of
London, and had his crest of an eagle given him by the King*. See
Note. Admiral of the fleet, Earl of Salisbury, Ambassador to the
Duke of Bavaria, Appointed Earl Marshall of England for life, King
of Man, Member of Parliament, and one of the founders of the Royal
Order of Knights of the Garter. This great man married Catherine,
dau. of William, lord Grandison, descended out of Burgundy, cousin
german to the Emperor of Constantinople, the King of Hungary and
Duke of Bavaria. She was a lady of great beauty, and history records
that she was as good as she was beautiful. Upon one occasion while
attending a feast at Windsor Castle she was dancing with King
Edward III. and lost her garter which the King took up from the
floor. Some of the Nobles that stood around were seen to smile,
whereupon the King remarked " that the time should shortly come
* The crest of Edward III. was a lion, which has remained the Royal Crest to the present
day. The Eagle was a crest which Edward III. distinguishes as his own personal decoration
and the granting of it to William Montague was a neat compliment, and kind expression of
regard and royal favor, on the part of the King.
The Earl Montague, with that delicate sense of honor and the fitness of things which has
distinguished the Montagues from that period to the present, immediately re-granted the
Eagle crest with great form, to the Young Prince Lionel, his godson, son of the King, and
afterward, that Duke of Clarence whose daughter married the Earl Montague's grandson.