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Birth:          13 Jun 1388 of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Death:          2 Nov 1428 Orleans, France
Burial:         Priory, Bisham, Berkshire, England

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Salisbury
Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury, 6th and 3rd Baron Montagu, 5th Baron 
Monthermer, and Count of Perche, KG (13 June 1388 – 3 November 1428) of Bisham in 
Berkshire, was an English nobleman and one of the most important English 
commanders during the Hundred Years' War.
Origins[edit]

He was the eldest son of John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (d.1400), who was killed 
while plotting against King Henry IV in 1400, and his lands forfeited, later partly 
retrieved by Thomas. His mother was Maud Francis, daughter of Sir Adam Francis 
(born ca. 1334), Mayor of London.

Career[edit]

Thomas was summoned to Parliament as Earl of Salisbury in 1409, although he was 
not formally invested as earl until 1421. In 1414 he was made a Knight of the Garter. 
In July 1415 he was one of the seven peers who tried Richard, Earl of Cambridge on 
charges of conspiring against King Henry V. Montagu then joined King Henry V in 
France, where he fought at the Siege of Harfleur and at the Battle of Agincourt. 
Montagu fought in various other campaigns in France in the following years. In 1419 
he was appointed lieutenant-general of Normandy and created Count of Perche, part 
of Henry V's policy of creating Norman titles for his followers. He 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. In 1425 he captured 
the city of Le Mans and fought at the Siege of Orléans in 1428 at which he lost his 
life.

Marriages & progeny[edit]

He married twice:
Firstly to Eleanor Holland, a sister and eventual co-heiress of Edmund Holland, 4th 
Earl of Kent, and daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent. By Eleanor he had a 
daughter, his only legitimate child: Alice Montagu, who married Richard Neville, 5th 
Earl of Salisbury, who succeeded his father-in-law jure uxoris as Earl of Salisbury.

Secondly to Alice Chaucer, daughter of Thomas Chaucer and grand-daughter of the 
poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

Death[edit]

On 27 October 1428 he was wounded during the Siege of Orléans, when the tower he 
was inside was hit by a cannonball. There are conflicting reports on the manner in 
which this wounded him; Enguerrand de Monstrelet states a piece of stone from the 
window 'carried away part of his face.' He died days later at Meung-sur-Loire on 3 
November 1428.[2]

Parents
MONTAGU (MONTACUTE) John (ABT 1350 - 7 Jan 1400)
FRANCIS Maude (ABT 1370 - BEF 5 Aug 1424)

Siblings
MONTAGU (MONTACUTE) Thomas (13 Jun 1388 - 2 Nov 1428)

Marriage To DE HOLAND Eleanor (Alianore) (1386 - AFT 1413)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE HOLAND Thomas (1354 - 25 Apr 1397)
FITZ ALAN Alice (ABT 1348 - 17 Mar 1416)

Children by DE HOLAND Eleanor (Alianore) 1386 - AFT 1413
MONTAGU Alice (1407 - BEF 9 Dec 1462)

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