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Earl John Montagu & 7605725. Countess Maud Fraunceys
1351, John de Montacute born in England, heir & s/o 15211448. John de Montagu & 15211449.
Margaret de Monthermer.
~1355, Maud born in London, England, d/o 15211450. Adam Fraunceys & 15211451.
Agnes Champneys.
3/1369, Due to an outbreak of the plague in London, the
royal court was moved to Windsor.
10/19/1369, Adam Fraunceys, citizen of London, to settle the
manor of Edmonton, and firewood in Enfield park, on himself for life, with
remainder to Adam Fraunceys the younger and the heirs of his body, remainder to
Maud daughter of the grantor and the heirs of her body, remainder to the right
heirs of the grantor. Middlesex. (S) UKNA.
[––Maud & John
Aubrey––]
Maud 1st married to John Aubrey. (S) The Aldermen
of the City of London, Beaven, 1908, P407.
1369, John knighted in France by the Edmund of Langley, earl
of Cambridge, s/o Edward III, at Bourdeille. [They were sent with
reinforcements to the army of the Black Prince in Aquitaine. Landing at St.
Malo, traveled to Nantes, then into Poitou. At arrival at Angoulême they were
ordered by the Prince, with a detachment of 3000 men, to make an incursion into
Perigord. Bourdeille, one of the strong boroughs of that county, situated on
the River Drome, was taken after a siege of 9 weeks. They then were sent
against Roche-sur-Yon in Poitou, which also fell.]
5/5/1375, Maud’s father died, her brother Adam the heir.
5/8/1375,
Writ for IPM of Adam Fraunceys. Middlesex: Edelmeton. The manor, … remainders
to Adam Fraunceys, the younger, and the heirs of his body, to Maud daughter of
the deceased and the heirs of her body, … Maud wife of John Aubrey, aged . .
years, is his daughter and heir. (S) CIsPM.
6/21/1377, Richard II, age 10, son of the Black Prince,
succeeded Edward III as King of England.
1380-81, John Aubrey, sheriff of London, died [son and heir
Robert.]
[––Maud & Alan––]
Maud married 2nd Sir Alan Buxhall, king’s knight.
11/2/1381, Alan Buxhall died.
[––John & Maud––]
Bef. 5/4/1383, John married Maud.
6/3/1383, Grant … manor of Bryaneston, co. Dorset, late of
Alan de Buxhall, knight, deceased, … saving to Matilda, late the wife of Alan,
her reasonable dower, … (S) CPRs.
2/17/1385, Sp Ass. Robert Bealknap, … John de Monte Acuto
junior, … (S) CPRs.
2/25/1389, John’s father died.
3/10/1390,
IPM of John de Monte Acuto, knight, the elder. Essex: He held Hermere manor. …
John de Monte Acuto, knight, his son, aged 39 years and more, is his heir. (S)
CIsPM.
6/16/1390, John age 39, heir to
his father of a tenement in London in right of his mother. (S) Monthermer
Peerage, Parliament Lords … Case on Behalf of William Lowndes, 1860.
9/14/1390, Order to Richard Horn, escheator in the county of
Southampton, to take the fealty of John de Monte Acuto, ' chivaler,' son and heir
of John de Monte Acuto, 'chivaler,' the elder, and cause him to have full
seisin of all the lands which his father held. (S) CFRs.
10/6/1390, Plea of covenant, moiety of the manor of
Hurberton. John Wadham, John Hille and William Hanckeford, querents, and Cecily
Turbervyle, deforciant. … their successors, Edward Courtenay, earl of Devon,
Margaret Courtenay, countess of Devon, John Daumarle, John de Montague,
Margaret de Montague, Thomas Peverell, Margaret Peverell, … (S) Feet of Fines,
Devon.
1391, John, baron Montagu, summoned to parliament.
9/1391, John on a crusade to Prussia with Henry, earl of
Derby [Henry’s 2nd trip], John Beaufort [half-brother of Henry], and
the Teutonic knights.
12/11/1392, Enrollment in the Common pleas of the Hustings.
John de Monte Acuto and Mathilda his wife. … rent for Mathilda's life £11 3s 4d
p.a. quarterly. (S) UKNA.
1392-96, John summoned to parliament.
~1394, Henry Bolingbroke, earl of Derby, [future King Henry
IV] entrusted the care of his son [future King Henry V (b.9/6/1386)] to John
and Maud.
3/24/1394, John’s mother died. John inherited the barony of
Monthermer.
10/2/1394 John a commander with King Richard II, who brought
8000 men, landed at Waterford, Ireland.
10/1394, The first attack was against
Art MacMurrough, king of Leinster. (S) Unpublished Letters from Richard II
in Ireland, 1927. Afterwards, multiple Irish chieftans submitted to English
lordship.
5/10/1395, Inquisition before the mayor of London, after the
death of Margaret, who was the wife of John de Mountagu, who died siesed in her
demesne as of fee of a tenement in the parish of Saint Dunstan’s in the East,
in Tower Ward, London, on the 24th of March 1395, it being found
that Johnde Monte Acuto Knight was the son and next heir of the said Margaret …
(S) Monthermer Peerage, Parliament Lords, 1860, P90.
5/1395, Richard II and his forces returned to England.
1395, John fixed the Lollard manifesto on the doors of St.
Paul's and Westminster Abbey [Lollards, followers of John Wycliffe, believed
the “true” church was not the the Catholic church and its doctrines].
5/13/1397, Commission of the peace and of oyer and terminer
… William de Monte Acuto, earl of Salibury, John de Monte Acuto, … } co. Southampton.
(S) CPRs.
6/3/1397, John heir to his uncle William de Montague, 2nd
Earl of Salisbury.
4/1397, John made a Knight of the Garter.
9/8/1397, John complicit in the death of Thomas of
Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, 1 of 5 ‘lords appellant’, in Calais. [The Lords
Appellent had tried to control King Richard II after he declared majority.]
1397-99, John summoned to parliament as Earl of Salisbury.
8/28/1397, Whereas … prohibiting … assemblies … of any one
but the king … or directed to them on behalf of … John, earl of Salisbury, …
(S) CPRs.
10/10/1397, Grant in tail to John, earl of Salisbury, … (S)
CPRs.
11/12/1397, Grant, on the petition of John de Monte Acuto,
earl of Salisbury … William de Monte Acuto, petitioner’s grandfather … (S)
CPRs.
5/8/1398, To the collector or keeper of the stampage of tin
in Cornwall for the time being. Order to pay to John de Monte Acuto now earl of
Salisbury a rent of £94 20d a year. (S) CCRs.
9/24/1399, Sir Walter de Kelly, priest, was inst. at Clyst.
Patron, Sir John de Monte Acuto, Knt. (S) The Register of John de Grandisson,
Bishop of Exeter, 1899, P1399.
10/13/1399, Henry IV crowned king of England.
12/1399, John, a conspirator with the Earl of Huntingdon and
others, attempted to assassinated King Henry IV and his sons. The conspirators
were betrayed by the earl of Rutland. John escaped to the town of Cirencester,
Gloucester. (S) The Wars of the Roses, Weir, 1995, P44.
1/7/1400, John, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, beheaded
by locals at Cirencester after a night-long battle; initially buried in that
Abbey. (S) Monthermer Peerage, Parliament Lords … Case on Behalf of William
Lowndes, 1860, P94.
[––Maud––]
1/1400, Parliament held at Westminster … all the lords
temporal therein with the assent of the king declared John, earl of Salisbury,
and others traitors and adjudged that he should forfeit all lands which he held
in fee simple, … notwithstanding that he died in levying war against the king
without process of law … (S) CPRs, 3/16/1452.
8/10/1406, William Coventre to Maud countess of Salisbury. £200
recognisance, to be levied etc. in Berkshire. (S) CCRs.
1/20/1407, Alan Buxhulle knight to Maud countess of
Salisbury his mother. Charter indented with warranty of all his messuages,
lands, rents and services in the manor of Buxhulle for her life, rendering £3
a year. (S) CCRs.
1411, Son Thomas settled the manors in Wiltshire, Hampshire
and the Isle of Wight on his mother Maud.
3/20/1413, Henry V succeeded Henry IV as King of England.
8/9/1416, Grant by Thomas de Mountagu, earl of Salisbury, to
his mother, Maud, countess of Salisbury, his brother, William de Ferrers, lord
of Groby, … (S) Ancient Deeds, V3, 1900, D.543.
6/17/1422, Maud, countess of Salisbury, of the diocese of
Lincoln, received a papal indult for plenary remission. (S) Cal. of Papal
Reg’s, V7, 1906, Lateran Regesta 237.
1424, Maud died. buried at Bisham Priory, Berkshire [where
John’s body was reburied.]
8/5/1424, Writ for IPM of Maud late the wife of John de
Monte Acuto, late earl of Salisbury. Wilts:
Upton Escudamour. 3 knights’ fees, and 50s. rent … (S) CIsPM.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P577.
Children of John and Maud: [2 sons, 3 daughters]
i. Thomas Montague
(3802862), born 1388 in England.
ii. Margaret Montagu,
born ? in England.
Margaret married 156168. Lord William Ferrers, 5th
Lord Ferrers of Groby.
iii. Elizabeth
Montagu, born ? in England.
Elizabeth married Robert, 6th Lord Willoughby,
s/o 3802842. Lord William de Wylughby & 3802843. Lucy le Strange.
