Vol 3 - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family
By the seventeenth century the Wiltshire manor of Lackham, secure in its
bend of the River Avon between Chippenham and Lacock, had only known
two families since the Norman Conquest, the Bluets and the Baynards 4 .
In 1635 the Baynard heiress, Mary, married James Montagu I, the third
son of the 1 st earl of Manchester. This marriage transferred Lackham to
what became the Wiltshire branch of the Montagu family, 6 generations
of whom became Lords of Lackham “and so Lackham was lost to the
Baynards” 5 .
James’ line of the Montagu family bore the arms seen on the front cover
Fig. 1 Arms of the Montagu family **
It has been noted 6 that
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For the histories of these two families see the authors’ “The Bluets: a baronial family
and their historical connections 1066-1400” (2008) and Pratt, T (2010) “The Baynards
of Lackham: a county family and their historical connections 1360 – 1650”. Both of
these, and other works, can be read online at
http://www.lackham.co.uk/history/documents.asp
5 Wiltshire Family History Society (hereafter WFHS) Wiltshire Inscriptions
6 Kite, E (1899) Wilts Notes and Queries Vol 3 p173 fn1
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