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

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Moreover, he obtained from the King a special license to make a
Castle of his house at Kersington in the County of Oxford, and was
appointed Seneschal of the duchy of Aquitain and at last in 13 18 of
Gascony. In the nth and 12th of that reign he had summons to
parliament and died in 1320 in Gascony, but was interred at St.
Frideswide, now Christ Church Oxon. #
By Elizabeth, dau. of Peter lord Montfort of Beaudefert in the
County of Warwick, he had issue four sons and seven daughters.
Of his four sons the eldest died in the life time of his father, the
second succeeded him, Simon the 3d son in the 8th of Edward III.
was made Bishop of Worcester and in 1336 was translated to Ely.
He was a great benefactor to the University of Cambridge and laid
out a large sum on the fine Lady Chapel, on the north side of the
Cathedral of Ely, though he did not live to finish it.
Sir Edward Montacute, the 4th son, was governor of the Castle of
Werk. He served afterward in the French wars with great reputation.
In the 23d of Edward III. (1330), he had livery of all those lands
which descended to his wife Alice, dau. and co-heir of Thomas
Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, fifth son of Edward I., and Marshal of
England. He died in 1342.
* " William de Montagu, who held the Manor of Aston Clinton, in the County of Bucking-
ham, held it of our Lord the King, by grant of Sergeanty, viz.—by the service of finding for
our lord the King a lardinerat his own proper costs." Harl. MSS. British Mus. 6126.— "The
lord William Montacute holds the Castle of Denbigh, with the honour from the lord the King
in Capite." Denbigh and its lordships. [" William de Montacute held Wynford by the gift
of Hugh de Courtenay by Sergeanty, viz. by the service of finding a bedell to serve in the
hundred of Wynford in the office of bedell for all service."—Tenures of land—Blount.
" Alexander III., King of Scots, had invaded Man also, and entirely subdued it, and set a
King over the isle. However, Mary, the daughter of Reginald King of Man, addressed her
self to the King of England for justice in her case. Answer was made that the King of Scots
was then possessed of the Island and she ought to apply herself to him. Her grandchild,
John Waldebeof , notwithstanding this, sued again for his right in Parliament, held 33d of
Edward I., urging it there before the King of England as Lord Paramount of Scotland, yet
all the answer he could have was that he might prosecute his title before the Justices of the
King's Bench ; let it be heard there and let justice be done. But what he could not effect by
law his kinsman Sir William Montacute (for he was of the royal family of Man) soon did by
force of arms. For having raised a body of English, he drove the Scots out of the Isle with
these raw soldiers. But, having plunged himself into debt by the great expense of this war,
and become insolvent, he was forced to mortgage the Island to Anthony Bee, Bishop of
Durham and Patriarch of Jerusalem ; and make over all the profits thereof to him for seven
years, and quickly after, the King gave the Island to the said Anthony for term of life.
Afterward King Edward II. gave it to his great favorite Peter de Gaveston. Soon after this
the Scots recovered it again under the Conduct of Robert Brus. Afterward, about the year
1340, William Montacute, the younger (Earl of Salisbury), rescued it by force of Arms from
the Scots and in the year of our Lord 1393 sold Man, and the Crown thereof, to William
Scrope for a great sum of money."—Camden's Britannia.