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

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park, of the town of Dunstor, as she could in one day compass about,
going on her naked feet.
Sir John Montagu, [brother of Philippa Montagu who married the
Earl of March], was Steward of the Household of King Richard II.
He was buried in Salisbury Cathedral. He married Margaret, dau.
of Thomas Monthermer, grand dau. of Joan of Acres, dau. of King
Edward I. Joan of Acres was so called because she was born
at Aeon in the Holy Land. She was the dau. of Edward I. by
Eleanor, dau. of Ferdinand III. of Spain. There is a romance con-
nected with the marriage of Joan of Acres. She married first, Gilbert
de Claire the red Earl of Gloucester, after his death she secretly
married Ralph de Mont-Hermer who occupied an inferior position in
the King's household. The King, her father, was very angry, threw
Ralph into prison, but finally forgave him and made him Earl of
Gloucester. Their son Thomas was slain in a sea fight in 1340,
leaving one only dau. Margaret who became the wife of Sir John
Montagu as above stated. Margaret died March 24, 1394, leaving
three sons and four daughters. Two of the daughters became nuns
of the third son Richard Montagu no record has been found. The
second son Thomas became Dean of Salisbury and was buried in the
Chapel of the Virgin Mary in Salisbury Cathedral. The eldest son
Sir John Montagu, became the 3d Earl of Salisbury, and was Earl
Marshall of England but at last beheaded. His eldest son Sir
Thomas Montagu, Knight of the Garter, became the greatest General
of his age. He was the 4th and last Earl of Salisbury and he became
such a terror to the French that upon one occasion the entire French
army, including the King of France, were put to flight by the mere
cry being raised that " Le-Salisbury is coming! " He married Eleanor
dau. of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, she was a grand-daughter of
the " Fair Maid of Kent." By this marriage he had an only child,
a daughter Alice Montagu who married Richard Nevill Earl of Salis-
bury in her right, and she became the mother of that great Earl of
Warwick called the "King-maker" and "Whirlwind of England,"
also of John Nevill Marquis of Montagu. She was the grandmother
of Isabel, wife of George Duke of Clarence, and of Anne, wife first
of Edward son of Henry VI., second, of King Richard III. From
her also was descended Edward Earl of Warwick, beheaded at the
age of 15 by Henry VII. ; Margaret
Countess of Salisbury, beheaded
at the age of 70 by Henry VIII., Cardinal Reginald Poole, who was-