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346 MONTAGU — MONTKAt i LB. MONTAGU OF SAINT NEOTS. " Montagu of St. Neots, co. Huntingdon, Barony (Montagu), t ItiliO with the Eabdlom ok Sandwich, which see. MONTALT or UK MONT ALT. Barony by /, RntiER HE MoMTAt»T,(*) s. unci b. of Robert OS Writ. Montalt,( s ') of Unwarden, co. Klint (a manor " hold/') l>y the service I I* 7 !';) "' ,s;,uw ' ;iri ' ".' •' ' s '"'- the family estates en the death of bis father ' in 127S) being then aged IS ; was in the wars in Qaacony and was . , Miiu. to Pari, m a Baron (.LOliD MONTALT) 23 .lime (1295), 23 l "->'- K.l. L,j*5 He m. Julian, da. of Roger be Clifford. He (/. (1207), 25 Ed L, when the Barmy became ixlinet. 11 1299. /. Robert de Montalt br. and h. of the above, ami to then aped 27. He served in the .Scotch and I'Yclich wars and was 1329. H,n "- l " 1> '"- M ;l "amu ( nll D MotiTALT) by writs from li Feb, (1268/8) 27 Ed. I. to 18 June (13*21') 3 Ed. lit ile was one of the Banms whose name (as 14 Rtdftus de M'mtc Altn t Dominus lltiivar- dyn ") appears to the famous letter(°) sent bj them in 1301 to the Pope. He ». Emma Who was living (1237) 1 Kd. 111. in which year he, having no issue, granted the reversion (on his death) of Ids great estates f) to the Queen Mother for life and to her son John, afterwards Earl of Cornwall, in fee. He <l. sp. (132frf) 3 Kd. III. and was bur. at Shouldbam, co. Norfolk, when the Barony became extinct. See " De Montalt of HawabdbNjCO. Tippemry," Barony] 1.] {Maude) cr. 1776 ; ex. 1777. i.e. "De Mostai.t of IIawahden, co. Tipperayy, Barony [I] (Mamfr) cr. 1785 ; see " IIawahden " Vucouutcy [1.], cr. 1791. i.e. "De Mostai.t of Dux drum, co. Tipperary," Barlilora [1] [Maude) cr. 18S6 ; sec " Hawaudkn," Viscuuutcy [I,], cr. 1791, under the 4th Viscount. MONT EAGLE oi MOUNTEAGLE. Barony by 1. Sir Edward Stanley, of Hornby Castle, co. Laii* Writ. caster, 5th s, of Thomas (STAKtST), 1st Haul ok Dbhbv, by his first I 1514 w '* e ' ' CIIUU1 '" ,,a - u- Richard (Nkvill) Eaiu. ok Salisbury, having greatly distinguished himself when in command of the rear of the English army at the victory of Floddcn,(t) !) Hep. 1513, was el. K.G., (■*) The chief place of the resideuee of this family was " at a little hill in Flintshire then called Montalt, but of late time (vulgarly) Mouldc" [" Dugdale."] ( h ) This Robert was 2d son but eventually (on the death of his br., John), heir to Roger dc Montalt (id. 1200) one of the most powerful of the liarons temp. Henry III., by Cicely, sister and coheir of Hugh (dc Alhiui), Earl of Arundel, which Cicely brought considerable estates to the Montalt family. (c) " Dugdale." ( ll ) His name occurs in the rolls of Pari, before the record of writs of summons commenced. («) See " Nicolas," pp. 751-809 for a full account of that letter. (') Besides the Lordships of Montalt, of Hawaiden with the Stewardship of Chester, of Walton upon Trent, co. Derby, of Cheylcsinoie by Coventry, co. Warwick, these included the Manor of Koiuiinghall, the Castle of Rising, &c. and other estates in Norfolk and Suffolk derived from the family of Albini, Earls of Arundel. (R) " As a reward for which service King Henry commanded [at Whitsuntide 1514] that in consideration of those his valiant acts against the Scots done in that battel, where he won the Hill, as also for that his ancestors bore the eagle hi their crest he should be proclaimed Lord of Montaytjk " [Dugdale]. Hence he was sum. as a Baron by that title a few months later.