Sir Thomas de Montagu, KG, Earl of Salisbury

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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.
• Offices Held: 1409; On 26 October 1409, he was summoned to Parliament as the Earl of Salisbury.
• Knighted: 1414; He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1414.
• Military: 1415; 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; On 26 April 1419, he became the Comte de Perche in Normandy.
• Land/House: 1421; 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; In 1423, he was appointed governor of Champagne.
• Second Marriage: Before Nov 1424; 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, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; He captured the city of Le Mans in 1425.
• Last Full Review: 28 May 2021

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Died:
He was wounded at the siege of Orléans when a cannonball hit the tower he was in. He died days later without heirs.

Thomas married Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury on 13 May 1399. Eleanor (daughter of Sir Thomas de Holand of Woodstock, KG, Earl of Kent and Alice FitzAlan) was born in 1386 in Up Holland, Lancashire, England; died after 1413 in Bisham Abbey Manor House, Bisham, Berkshire, England; was buried in Bisham Priory, Bisham, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Sir Richard de Neville, KG, Earl of Salisbury in 1425. Richard (son of Sir Ralph de Neville, KG, Earl of Westmoreland and Joan de Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland) died on 31 Dec 1460 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 15 Jan 1461. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Living: 22 Nov 1503

Family/Spouse: Henry Fitzhugh, Lord Fitzhugh. Henry (son of William Fitzhugh, Lord FitzHugh and Margaret Willoughby) was born in 1424 in England; died on 8 Jun 1472 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir William Parr, KG. William died about 23 Feb 1483/84. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Nicholas Vaux, Lord Harrowden in 1484 in Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England. Nicholas (son of Sir William Vaux and Catherine Penistone) died on 14 May 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]