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

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that Castle endured a memorable siege by King David of Scotland
in 1342. He married Alice, dau. of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of
Norfolk, son of King Edward I. by his second Queen, Margaret, dau.
of Philip III., or the Hardy, of France. He was called Thomas of
Brotherton, because he was born at Brotherton in Yorkshire. Having
received, with his title of Earl of Norfolk, the Vast Estates of Roger
Bigod the last Earl of Norfolk, he was one of the richest men in Eng-
land, and his Estates were divided at his death between his two
daughters [his only children] Margaret and Alice. He was the
founder of Reddenhall church, Earsham Hundred, Co. Norfolk, built
of free stone, which in 1770 had the finest Tower of any Co. Parish
church in England. His younger daughter, Alice, was born in 1323
and married Sir Edward Montagu in 1344. She brought as her
marriage portion to Sir Edward, (among other manors) the manors
of Reddenhall, and also Ditchingham Hall, Lodden Hund, Norfolk.
Their issue was Edward Montague who held Reddenhall Manor in
1360, but died in 1365, and Etheldred his sister possessed the manor.
She married in 1390 Sir Hugh Strauley, Kt. The eldest dau. of
Edward and Alice Montagu was Joan. In 1360 she was the wife of
William de UfTord, Earl of Suffolk. He was the son of Robert
UfTord, Earl of Suffolk, who was the son of Robert steward of the
King's House under Edward II. by Cecillia de Valoniis, Lady of
Orford. William and Joan had four sons, all died by an untimely
death, and William de UfTord himself, in 138 1, as he was going to
report the opinion of the House of Commons in Parliament, suddenly
fell down dead as he was going up stairs to the Upper House.
Margaret, the other dau. of Thomas of Brotherton, and sister of
the Lady Alice Montagu, was called Lady Marshall and Countess of
Norfolk, she was created Duchess of Norfolk for life, by King Richard
II. She married John, lord Segrave, with whom she lived unhappily
and traveled all the way to Rome to see the Pope and obtain a
divorce. She married (2) Sir Walter Manney, Knight of the Garter,
and died March 24, 1399. By her first marriage, Thomas, lord
Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk in 1401, was her grandson; he was
beheaded at York, with Richard Scrope Archbishop of Canterbury in
1405, but from him was descended the Lady Anne Bolin, wife of
King Henry VIII. and mother of Queen Elizabeth. Anne Bolin was
thus lineally descended from King Edward I. She was also a Mon-
tagu, by the following line of descent :
Anne,
dau. of Sir John