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 34 SALISBURY. lands of the Countess's inheritance " till she had made a regular conveyance of them to him, which she did by deed, 26 J tine (1322) 15 Ed. II., and acknowledged such surrender in Chancery 11 July [following], 16 Ed. This surrender is presumed to have included the peerage honours, in which case all her right to the Earldom of Salisbury itptttt to the Crown in 1322.( b ) The Countess of Lincoln d. s.p. 2 Oct. 1348, aged about (®.(*) See fuller particulars of her under '' Lincoln " Earldom. IV. 13:37. 7. William (de Moxtacute),LohdMontacutk,p. nnd h, of William, 2d Loud MuntacttB (a Barony cr. by writ '29 Deo. 1299), by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Peter de Montkoiit, of Beaudesert Castle, oo. Warwick ; was 4. 1301 ; sue. his father ti Nov. 1319, being then aged IS ; K.B., 3! .March 132(1; wai on an embassy to the Pope, 1330, in which year also he was instrumental in the arrest of Roger, Earl of March, the favourite of the Queen mother ; was sum. to pari, (as Lord Moutacute) from 5 June (1331) 5 Ed. III. to 29 Xov. (133ti) 10 Ed, til, and was cr. 13 March 1337, EARL OK SALISBURY. He was in command in the Scotch and French wars ; received the Lordship of the Isle of Man. 7 Aug. 1333 ; was Admiral of the Cinque ports, Jan. to May 1337 ; Marshal of England, 20 Sep. 1338, Ice He was also on several embassies to France and other foreign powers. He m. 1327, Katharine, one of the three daughters (whose issue became coheirs) of Sir William (de Gkandison) 1st LORD GraNDISoN, by Sybiila, da. and coheir of Sir John DK TkEOOZ. He d. 30 Jan. 1343/4 from bruises received at a tournament held ti Windsor, ami was bur. in the Whitefriars. , d ) His widow (/. 23 April(°J 1319 or 1351 and was bur. in Bisham Priory, Berks, of which her husband bad been the founder.! 1 ) V. 1344. 2. William (de Montacite), Earl of Salisbury and Loud MostaCUTe, Lord of the isle of Man,(«) &c, s. and h., 4. 25 June 132S, sue. to his father when 16 years old. He was one of the most dis- tinguished warriors throughout the wars with France ; was Constable of the Host, 1354, and was in command, in 1356, of the rear of the army at Poitiers; Admiral of the West, July to Nov. 1376, && He had been Kni,jhied by the Prince of Wales, 13 July 1315, at La Hogue, and had been made KG. in 1348, being one of the' Founders! 1 ') of that order. He was bearer of the robes at the coronation, 15 July (a) Cull. Top. et Gen., vol. vi, p. 151. (°) The Earldom was granted de novo by the Crown, some 14 years after this resigns lion, tho' 12 years before the death of the Countess Alice, to the Montaeute family. («) After her death the representation of these Ear Is is supposed to have devolve! on the descendants of Ela, da. of William de I.ongespee, which Ela was second wifeol Sir James Andley, Justiciary of Ireland, 1270-72. It is not, however, very clear as to whether she was da. of the elder William (which is more probable) or of tit younger. See vol. i, p. 198, note " a," sub " Andley," as to her and her descendant!. (<!) Walsiugbam (Hist. Anglieana ii, p. 381) thus speaks of him: " De oajtB elegantia, strenuitate, sapicntia et animositate digne scribere speciales actus reqnirit." («) Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. i, p. 278. (') She is often confused with the much more youthful Joan (the Countess Salisbury of "Garter" notoriety), who had been contracted in marriage in 13JS (see p. 35, lines 2 to 6), to her son the 2d Earl. Plant-he, alluding to this stw.F in bis " Earls of Kent," says of this Katharine, that she died ill 1349 (the year afWj the institution of the order of the Garter) ''at what is politely called a certain age, at least. - ' (g) The Lordship, with the Regality, of the Isle of Man, was sold iu 1395 to William; le Scrope, afterwards (1397) Earl of Wiltshire. (>') See list of the orig. Knights in vol. i, p. 270, note "a," sub " Beauchamp." All his death, in 1397, he was the last survivor of such Founders. Tm modern pitted were iu 1740 (the old oue having disappeared) affixed to his Btall, by order of John,! Duke of Montagu, who, " in the vain desire of augmenting the number of Kniglitmj the name of Montagu " appears to have " eagerly adopted " a " tolalli/ tiuauthor«l sugge-ition of Anstis " that William, Earl of Salisbury, the first Earl, of the MoutacuU. race, "who was mortally wounded iu the tournament which preceded the foundation had, previously to his death, been admitted into the order."