Collins's peerage of England Author:Arthur Collins Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MONTAGU, DUKE OF MANCHESTER. Sir Edward Montagu, the immediate ancestor of this family, as constituted chief justice of the court King Bench, 29 Henry VI... more »II. He was the youngest son of Thomas Montagu, Gent. who died in 1517, and lies buried in the church of Hemington in Northamptonshire. This family claim a descent from the powerful and illustrious house of Montagu, who make a figure in our annals as Barons from the time of the conquest, and were anciently textit{Earls of Salis- bury. For this reason a detailed account of that House has been given in all our late Peerages. But I find myself compelled to throw the brief notice, which I shall take of those extinct peers, into a note.a " Collins and others hare deduced the above Thomas Montagu from Simon Montagu, who is stated to have been younger brother to John, textit{third Earl of Salisbury ; and uncle to Thomas textit{iefonrtb and last Earl of Salisbury, of that name, who died November ;d, 1428 This Simon is asserted to have had issue, by Elizabeth Bough:on, Thomas Montagu, who is said to have left by Christian Basset John Montagu, whose wife was Alice Holeot, and their son William marrying Margaret Bouling, was father of Richard Montagu, of Hemington in Northamptonshire; who, by Agnes Spelling, was father of the above Thomas, who died in 1517. Unfortunately there is no proof of the existence of this textit{Simon; nor of any of the intermediate generations Hut the late Mr. Thorpe, (and it seems Mr. Anstis concurred in this opinion) suspected this family to be descended from textit{Jama Montagu, a natural son of Thomas, the last Earl of Salisbury. This James lies buried in the church of Ludsdowne in Kent, of which place he derived the manor from his father. See textit{Thorpis Cuitumale Roffaiie, p 115. The bordure ro...« less