MONTACUTE — MONTAGU. 339 I. (ter) 1357. 1. Sir John de Montacute, 2d s. of "William (de Montacute), 1st Earl of Salisbury, by Catharine, da. ol Wilh'am (de Grandiso.y), Lord Grandiso.y ; served in the French wars, being present (26 Aur. 1846), at the battle of Creasy, and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD MONTACUTE) by writs from 16 Feb. (1356/7), 31 Ed. III., to 6 Dec. (1389), 20 Ric. II. (") He in. before 1349 (she being then ag.-d 21) Margaret, de jure suo jure Baroness Montiikr.mer (see that dignity) in consequence of which alliance he not improbably received his writ of summons as a Baren. He d, 25 Feb. (13S9/90), 13 Rio. II. Will dat. 20 March 1388/9.( b ) iL(fer) 1390. 2. .Tonx (de Montacute), Lord Monthermer [1309] and Lord Montacute [1317], s. and h. By the death, 3 June 1397, of his paternal uncle, he became KARL OF SALISBURY and Lord Montacute [1299], with which last named Barony, this Barony and that of Monther- mer, ever afterwards continued united. See " Montacute," Barony, cr. 1299, under the 5th Lord. MONTAGU, aji.l NEVILL DE MONTAGU. Barony by /. Sir John Nevill, 3.1 s. of Richard (Nevill), Eaul Writ, of Salisbury, was h. about 1430 ; knighted 25 Dec. 1449 ; attainted I. 1 161. Nov - 1 ' ir,i) ' bu * ,e3t " rc(l 0ct - 14 °0 J p - c -> 14 61 ; Lord Chamberlain of the Household, 1461, and was sum. to Parl.( a ) as a Baron Mnrquessate. (LORD MONTAGU, or LORD NEVILL DE MONTAGU), by j , ,- , writ, 23 May (1461), 1 Ed. I., directed " Johamii Ntvyll, Domino 1 4 ' u > ttcntagn, Chl'r " and by writ' 22 Dec. H462), 1 Ed. IV. to 2S
- 2 Feb. (1462, 31, 2 Ed. IV., direct .d " Johanm Neryll de Montagu " ;
1 471. KG., 21 March 1461/2; Wa- Jen of the East Marches, 1463-70 ; cr. 27 May 1461 or 1465, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, which creation was brought into chancery ami cancelled (1468-69), 8 Ed. IV., he being nr. 25 March 1470, MARQUESS OF MONTAGU.( c ) He m. 25 April 1456, Isabel, da. and h. of Sir Edmund 1n«oldsthoupe, of Borough Green, co. Cambridge, by Joanc, da. and coheir of John (Tiptoft), Lord Tiptoft. Together with his br., the Earl of Warwick (the King-Maker), he took part in the restoration of King Henry VI. in 1 170, and was slain at the battle of Barnet, 14 April 1471, ( d ) when, having been attainted, all his honours became forfeited.^) His body was exposed three days in St Paul's Cathedral, Loudon, and was hur. at Bisham, Berks. His widow m. Sir William Norris. Viscountcy. 1. Sir Anthony Browne, of Battlu Abbey and Cowdray I 1554 Park,;') co. Sussex, b. and h. of Sir Anthony Browne, KG., by Alice, da. of Sir John Gage, K.G., which last named Anthony, was s. and h. of Sir Anthony Browne, Standard Bearer of England, by ("l There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (") See Nicolas's " Test. Vet." ( c ) This was the. fifth Marqessate that was created. See vol. iii, p. 146, note " g," snli "Dorset" for a list of the first eleven. A facsimile of his signature, as "J. Mountaou " is given in Doyle's " Official Baronuye." () According to Leland (as quoted by Dugdale), "Though he outwardly made shew of joining the Lancastrians at Barnet, ho privately got on King Edward's livery, with purpose to take his part ; which being discerned by some of his brother's servants, they forthwith fell upon him and killed him." (o) His sons both d. s.p. (the eldest, George, who had been v. p. cr. Duke of Bedford, was degraded by Pari, in 1477), but his five daughters all married, and their iBsue represents the Barony of 1461. (0 William (Fitzwilliam), Earl of Southampton (who d. 1542), and who was his father's elder br. (of the half blood, cx parte <nalernd), had purchased that estate, which he left to his said br., Sir Anthony Browne, who finished the building of that nagniliceut house, which was destroyed by fire in 1793. There is an interesting listory of " Cowdray," by Mrs. C. Roundel]. The estate was sold in 1843 by the da. f Mrs. Poyutz (sister and heir to the last Viscount), to the 6th Earl of Egmont [I.] Y 2
