Vol 3 - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family
As has been seen above, Lackham had come under Montagu control through
the marriage of James Montagu (1608 - 1665) to the heiress of the
ancient Baynard family, Mary (1621 -1685) in 1635. It is noted that
Mary was 14 when she married James, but this was not unusual at this
date, and her father died only 5 months after the marriage. It is
possible he was terminally ill when the marriage took place but there is
no evidence for this.
James was the third son of Henry Montagu (c 1563 - 1642), the 1 st Earl
of Manchester, and his wife Catherine Spencer (died 1612). James and
Mary had nine sons 508 , the second of whom was also called James (1638 -
1676). This James married Diana Hungerford and they had four sons 509 ,
the eldest of whom was born in 1672.
All of this is relevant because the title of the painting is "--, son of
James Montague 510 of Lackham". Given that John Greenhill died in 1676
this can only be either a son of the first James Montagu to own Lackham
or of his son James. Children of the second James Montagu of Lackham
can be ruled out as the eldest was only 4 when John Greenhill died.
This painting, then, is of one of the 9 sons of James Montagu and Mary
Baynard. James died in the year that John Greenhill set up on his own
as a portraitist, in 1665. In this year the surviving male children of
James and Mary were 28 (James), 23 (Henry), 21 (Sidney), 19
508 Burke (1858) History of the English Commoners VOL IV gives Walter, James,
George, Robert, Henry, Sidney, Edward, Charles William and Mary. (Mary married
Thomas Ewer, of Bushey Hall, Herts). Burke gives the names but not dates, except
for James and the fact that Walter predeceased his father.
509 Edward (1672-1710), James (1672-1747), Anthony (c 1675- ?) and Robert (c!676-
?)
510 It is noted that this is an incorrect spelling for the period. Although the
senior branch of the family used this spelling the Lackham Montagus did not use
the final "e" until more than a hundred years later.
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