MONTAGU, John

1350 - 1400  (50 years)

 Set As Default Person

• Name	MONTAGU, John
  Birth	1350
  Gender	Male
  Royalty & Nobility	3rd Earl of Salisbury and 5th and 2nd Baron Montagu
  Name	Montacute
  Death	7 Jan 1400
  	Executed by beheading
  Person ID	I17429	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	MONTAGU, John,   b. 1330   d. 1390 (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	DE MONTHERMER, Margaret,   b. 14 Oct 1329   d. 24 Mar 1394 (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F12843	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	FRANCIS, Maud,   b. 1370   d. 1424 (Age 54 years)
  Children	+ 1. MONTAGU, Thomas,   b. 13 Jun 1388   d. 3 Nov 1428 (Age 40 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F12841	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Montagu had to answer charges related to the arrest and subsequent death of the Duke of Gloucester in 1397. Eventually, he was released, due to the intercession of King Henry's sister Elizabeth, Countess of Huntingdon. Not long after his release, Montagu joined with the Earl of Huntingdon and a group of other barons in the Epiphany Rising, a plot to kill King Henry IV and restore Richard II. After the plot failed, mob violence ensued, and he was caught by a mob of townspeople at Cirencester, held without trial, and executed by beheading on 7 January 1400. His eldest son, Thomas - by Maud Francis daughter of London citizen, Adam Francis - eventually recovered the Earldom, though the attainder against John Montagu was not reversed until the accession of Edward IV in 1461.