Sir Thomas de Montagu, KG, Earl of Salisbury

1388 - 1428  (40 years)

• Name	Thomas de Montagu
  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 (20 years)  [2, 6]
  On 26 October 1409, he was summoned to Parliament as the Earl of Salisbury.
  Knighted	1414 (25 years)  [6]
  He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1414.
  Military	1415 (26 years)  [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 (30 years)  [4]
  On 26 April 1419, he became the Comte de Perche in Normandy.
  Land/House	1421 (32 years)  [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 (34 years)  [6]
  In 1423, he was appointed governor of Champagne.
  Second Marriage	Before Nov 1424 (36 years)  [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 (36 years)	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	Aft 3 Nov 1428	Bisham Priory, Bisham, Berkshire, England Bisham Priory - Nothing remains of the abbey church or its associated buildings   [1]
  Patriarch & Matriarch	William de Montagu   (4 x Great Grandfather)  Alice  (Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I8508	Boudreau Line
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2025

  
  

  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

  
  

  Spouse / Partner	Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury,   b. 1386, Up Holland, Lancashire, England d. After 1413, Bisham Abbey Manor House, Bisham, Berkshire, England Bisham Abbey Manor House - Nothing remains of the abbey church or its associated buildings (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)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] ▻ Sir Richard de Neville, KG, Earl of Salisbury  m. 1425
  Family ID	F6034	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2021

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Sir Thomas de Montagu, KG, Earl of Salisbury(1388 – 1428) 2Sir John Montagu, Earl of Salisbury(Abt 1350 – 1399) 4John de Montagu( – 1389) 8William de Montagu(1302 – 1343) 16William de Montagu, Baron Montagu( – 1319) 17Elizabeth de Montfort( – 1345) 9Katherine de Grandison(Abt 1304 – 1349) 18William de Grandison, Lord Grandison(Abt 1250 – 1335) 19Sybil Tregoz(1271 – 1334) 5Margaret de Monthermer(1329 – 1394) 10Thomas de Monthermer 20Ralph de Monthermer( – 1305) 21Joan Plantagenent, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford(1272 – 1307) 11Margaret Tiptoft 22 23 3Maude Francis 6Adam Francis 12 24 25 13 26 27 7Alice 14 28 29 15 30 31

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 13 Jun 1388 - 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 - Aft 3 Nov 1428 - 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 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [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.