Sir Thomas de Montagu, KG, Earl of Salisbury

1388 - 1428  (40 years)

• Name	Thomas de Montagu
  Relationship	with Robert Alan Roy
  Birth	13 Jun 1388	Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [3, 6]
  General Information	He was the 4th Earl of Salisbury, and also the Compte de Perche. He was an English nobleman and one of the most important English commanders during the Hundred Years' War.   [3, 6]
  Offices Held	1409 (Age 21)  [2, 6]
  On 26 October 1409, he was summoned to Parliament as the Earl of Salisbury.
  Knighted	1414 (Age 26)  [6]
  He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1414.
  Military	1415 (Age 27)  [6]
  He joined King Henry V in France and was at the Siege of Harfleur in 1415, and later at the Battle of Agincourt. Sir Thomas spent most of the rest of his life as a soldier in France, leading troops in the various skirmishes and sieges that were central to that part of the Hundred Years' War.
  Title(s)	26 Apr 1419 (Age 31)  [4]
  On 26 April 1419, he became the Comte de Perche in Normandy.
  Land/House	1421 (Age 33)  [2, 6]
  He was full restored to the dignities held by his father in 1421 becoming Lord Montagu and the Earl of Salisbury. The lands having been forfeited when his father revolted against Henry IV in 1400.
  Offices Held	1423 (Age 35)  [6]
  In 1423, he was appointed governor of Champagne.
  Second Marriage	Before Nov 1424 (Age 36)  [3, 6, 7]
  He married second, Alice Chaucer, LG, the daughter of Thomas and Maud (Burghersh) Chaucer before November 1424. She was the granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Alice was born about 1404. Her first marriage was to Sir John Philip, and her third was to William de la Pole, the 1st Duke of Suffolk. She became a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. She died 20 May 1475 and is buried at Ewelme Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England.
  Military	1425 (Age 37)	Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France   [6]
  He captured the city of Le Mans in 1425.
  Death	3 Nov 1428	Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  	He was wounded at the siege of Orléans when a cannonball hit the tower he was in. He died days later without heirs. [2, 4, 6]
  Burial	—	Bisham Priory, Bisham, Berkshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I8508	| Boudreau Line
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Sir John Montagu, Earl of Salisbury,   b. Abt 1350, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 7 Jan 1399, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Maude Francis
  Family ID	F6042	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury,   b. 1386, Up Holland, Lancashire, England d. After 1413, Bisham Abbey Manor House, Bisham, Berkshire, England (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	13 May 1399  [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Age at Marriage	He : 10 years and 11 months - She : ~ 13 years and 5 months.
  Children	+ 1. Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury,   b. 1406, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. Before Feb 1462/63 (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F6034	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2021

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 13 Jun 1388 - Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Child - Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury - 1406 - Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Military - 1425 - Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France Death - 3 Nov 1428 - Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France Burial - — - Bisham Priory, Bisham, Berkshire, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  Sir Thomas Montagu and his wife Lady Eleanor Holland from the Wrythe Garter Book

  
  

• Sources

  [S67] Ancestral File (LDS), (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Questionnable Source. [S1840] Cokayne, George E. The Complete Peerage, Second Edition, Volume 09 (Moels to Nuneham), (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1936). [S1569] Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage web site, (Wellington, New Zealand: http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm, 2019). [S63] von Redlisch, Marcellus Donald Alexander R. Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants volume 1 , (Cottonport, Louisiana: Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, 1941). [S59] Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 Fifth Editionif, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982). [S304] Wikipedia, Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury. [S304] Wikipedia, Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk.