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

INTRODUCTION. 35
when the greatest honor imaginable should be paid to that Garter."'
Thus originated the Royal order of the Knights of the Garter with
its motto in French " Honi soit que mal y pense." This order con-
sisted of 26 Knights, and the mightiest Princes of Christendom have
reputed it a very great honor to be chosen as a member.
Lady Sibyl Montagu, eldest dau. of this great Earl of Salisbury,
married Edmund, son of Edmund Earl of Arundel. He was of royal
blood being descended through Hamlyn Plantagenet and thence from
William the Conquerer through his dau. Gundred.
Lady Philippa Montagu, second dau. and sister of Sibyl, married
Roger Mortimer Earl of March. He was son of Edmund, and grand-
son of that Roger Mortimer Earl of March who was put to death by
Edward III. as related in another part of this introduction. The son.
of Lady Philippa Montague by this marriage, also named Edmund
Earl of March, married Philippa, only daughter of Lionel, Duke of
Clarence, [third son of King Edward III.] by Lady Elizabeth de
Burgh, dau. of William Earl of Ulster. Their son Roger Mortimer
Earl of March was direct heir to the Crown of England and was-
designed by King Richard as his successor, but he died before the
King, leaving issue Edmund and Anne. Edmund was thrown into
prison by King Henry IV. who had usurped the Government, and
feared Edmund's title to the Crown, where he died of grief and discontent,
leaving his sister Anne to inherit the Crown. Lady Anne
Mortimer married Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge son of
Edmund of Langley who was the fifth son of King Edward III. They
had an only son, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, Protector of
England, who fell at the battle of Wakefield 1460, leaving the
following children (all of Montagu blood) by his wife Cicily, dau. of
Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland, viz.: Edward IV. King of Eng-
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land; Edmund Earl of Rutland, slain at W akefield when only 12
years old ;
George Duke of Clarence who married Isabel, grand dau.
of Alice Montague [dau. of Gen'l Thomas Montagu] and was drowned
in a barrel of wine; Richard III., King of England; Anne, married
to the Duke of Exeter; Margaret, married to Charles the Bold, Duke
of Burgundy ;
and
Elizabeth, married to John De-La-Pole, Duke of
Suffolk, who had by her, two sons ; John, Earl of Lincoln, Lord
Lieut, of Ireland, who was declared heir to the Crown by King
Richard III. but lost his life in the battle of Stoke, 1487 ; Edmund
Delapole who succeeded his father as Duke of Suffolk in 1491. He