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

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behalf. Upon a conclusion of a truce with France they were
exchanged for the Earl of Murray and ^"3000 in addition.
The Earl of Salisbury, immediately after his release, went with
many other English Knights into Spain and joined the army of
Alphonsus against the Saracens.
In 1 341 he was again in Flanders, and in 1342 in France. In 1343
he served upon the borders of Scotland with the Earl of Ulster. And
about this time he conquered the isle of Man, when King Edward
(having before given him the inheritance thereof) crowned him
King of Man.
In conjunction with Robert of Artois, he had the command of the
forces sent to France in aid of the Countess of Mountfort, by sea and
land ; where, after defeating the French fleet, they took Vannes, but
a truce having been concluded for three years the Earl returned to
England, where he exercised himself so immoderately, in justs and
tournaments, that he fell into a fever of which he died in the forty-
third year of his age, January 30, ^44, and was buried at the White
Friars in London^ (Vol. 1, p. 51, Edmondson's Heraldry). He was
possessed at his death of a vast estate and bore the titles of Earl of
Salisbury, King of Man, and lord of Denbigh.
Vol. 1, p. 51, Glover's ordinary of Arms, Edmondson's Heraldry,
says, this earl owned Fulmere in Buckinghamshire. Lipscombe's
Hist, of Bucks says, he sold it, in or before 1335. This was a hamlet
and Chapelry of Datchet in Stoke Hund. Bucks, near Stoke Poges
and not far from Boveney.
This great man, who died so young and who also accomplished so
much in his busy career, also found time to establish at Bisham in
Berkshire, on the banks of the Thames 4 miles from Maidenhead, a
Monastery, and he also founded a priory (in 1338) for Canons of
the order of St. Augustine, in the words of his charter, " dedicated
to Our Lord and the Virgin." This priory was re-founded by Henry
VIII. for an abbot and 13 Benedictine Monks. Here Henry VIII.
* Some authors state, that this great man was buried at Bisham priory which he had
founded. This error probably was caused by the fact that his son built a magnificent monument
to his memory, in that Abbey, which was however demolished by Henry VIII. at the
dissolution. Not only Edmondson's Heraldry but Glover's Ordinary of Arms, and also the
very high authority of Dugdalc, assert that he was buried at White Friars, London. Edmondson's
Heraldry, Vol. i, 51, states that he became 21 years old in the 19th of Edward II.,
which would place his birth A. D. 1304; the same authority also states, that he owned the
Manor of Cookham in Berkshire. Lipscombe's Bucks states that the hamlet of Boveney
anciently belonged to Cookham in Berkshire, and the inference is that this Earl of Salisbury
may have been possessed of Boveney also.