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

INTRODUCTION. 1
7th of Henry II. (1161) upon the collection of the scutage then
levied, he paid 20 marks for the Knight's fees (a yard land of 40
acres paid two shillings and sixpence tax) which he at that time held,
soon after which he died, leaving issue his son Drue, who was called
" Drogo Juvenis"—or Young Drue.
IV. Drue de Monteacuto, upon the assessment of the aid for
marrying the King's daughter, 12th Henry II. (1167) certified his
Knight's fees to be in number—nine, a half and a third part of the
old feosment and one of the new* (640 acres made a Knight's fee).
He married Aliva, dau. of Alan Basset, baron of Wiccomb in
County of Buckingham. After his death she married second, Richard
son of Gilbert Talbot, ancestor to the Earls of Shrewsbury.
His eldest son, also named Drue, died during his father's lifetime,
he married, however, and left two sons,—John and William de Mon-
tacute. The younger, William, had no male issue, and but two
daughters, namely, Margaret, married to William de Echingham ;
and
Isabel, married to Thomas de Audhamf
The elder son, John$, was seated at Marsh, in County Buckingham,
a manor situated northwest from Alesbury and near the Oxford
County line—he m. Lucy # # and had a daughter Katherine,
who married Warine Bassett.
Drue de Monteacuto and his wife Aliva (Basset) had an only
daughter who became a nun at Shaftsbury, and a second son,
V. William de Montacute, who succeeded to the barony,
and in the sixth year of Richard I. (1196) paid ^"6-i s -6 d for his
estates in the County of Somerset as scutage for the King's ransom.
He was sheriff of Dorsetshire and Somersetshire in the sixth,
seventh, eighth and ninth years of King John (1 205-1 209) ; which
fully proves his importance at that time, when none but persons of
the greatest rank and property were admitted to that office. For the
* The fees were thus held William Malherbe, 3 fees, Robert Fitz John 1 fee, Jordon Geulhame
1 fee, Robert Fitz William 1-2 fee, Helias de Arden 1-2 fee, Hamo 1-2 fee, Thomas de
Toire 1-2 fee, Richard Fitz Bernard 1-3 fee, and of the new feosment Will de Montacute 1 fee,
Besides 1 fee in Dishcove whereof he was unwarrantably dispossessed by Henry Lovel. For
all which fees, 14th Henry II.— (1168) he paid 10 marks.
tStone, in Aylesbury Hundred was held by John D.St. Clair, who m. Jane, dau. of Thomas
de Audham by Isabel, dau. of William Montacute (sister of Margaret Montacute) which
William was a younger brother of John de Montacute of Marsh, County Bucks, temp.
Henry III.
X The Coat Arms of John de Montacute of Marsh in Buckinghamshire were "Five fusils
in fess gules."