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 SALISBURY. 35 1377, of Richard II. ; Gov. of Calais 1379-80 ; Lord of the Iale of Wight (for life) 1885.(») He was contracted in marriage to Joan ("the fair maid of Kent") sister and heir (1352) to John (Plantaqenet) Earl OF Kent, which Lady (possibly( b ) the person in whose honour the order of the Garter receivtd its name), having m, about 1318, Sir John r>n Hoi.and, the previous contract was. by Panil B ill, 13 Nov. 1319, declared void. See fuller particulars of her under " Kent " Karldom, 1352-60. He m. in or after 1861 C) Elizabeth, 1st da. and coheir of John (Mouun), 2d Loud MOHUN dk Dcnsteu. by Joane, da. of Bartholomew (BcnriHKUSH) Lord Burouersh. He d. s. p.s. 3 June 1397, aged 69, and was bur. at Bisham priory afsd.f' 1 ) Will dat. 20 April ami pr. 27 June 1397 at Lambeth. His widow (for whom robis of the Barter were prepared in 1336) was rec. into the convent of St. Albans 10 Oct. 1408, and d. 14 Jan. 1414/5. Will dat. 24. Nov. 1414. [Sir William de Montacute, only s. and li. ap. He was contracted in marriage, in 1378, to Elizabeth (then aged six), da. of Richard (FitzaLaN), EaHL OF AiiI'ndkl. He (/. s. p. and v. p. 6 Aug. 1382, being slain in a tilting match at Windsor, by, it is said, his father. His widow m. (pardon dat. 18 Feb. 1389), Thomas (MowbRaV), DUKE OP Norfolk, who d. Sep. 1400 (see under that title) and sub- sequently two other husbands, and (/. 8 July 1425, aged 53.] Yl. 1897, ■'!. John (de Montacute), Earl of Salisbury [1337], to Loud Mostaccte [1299], Lord Monthermeii [1309], and Lord 1 100. Montacute [1357], nephew and heir, being s. and h. of John, Lord Mohtacutk, (so cr. in 1357), by Margaret, de jure, suo jure Baroness MoNTHSRMER, which John last named was next br. to William, Earl of Salisbury and Lord Montacute (who held the Barony cr. in 1299) next abovenamed. He was b. ii bout 1350 ; kniijhted, by the Earl of Cambridge, 1369 : sue. his father, 25 Feb. 1389/90, and was accordingly sum. to Pari, from 23 Nov. (1392), 16 Ric. II., to 30 Nov. (1398), 20 Ric. II.. as Lord Montacote [1357], tho', before the last date, he had, by his uncle's death, 3 June 1397, sue. to the Earldom of Salisbury^) (1337] as also to tbc Barony of Montacute cr. by the writ of 1299, having previously (1395 !) sue. his mother in the Barony of Monthermcr j K.G., 1397 ; Deputy Earl Marshal of England (for three years), 1398 ; was one of the most prominent sup- porters of the Lollards; Joint Ambassador to France, 1398, and to Scotland in 1399. He was a firm adherent of Richard II. for whose restoration he joined a conspiracy in Dec. 1399. He was, however, captured by the mob and beheaded at Cirencester without any trial, 7 Jan. 1399/400, his body being bur. there (tho' subsequently removed to Bisham), and his head set on London Bridge. He was attainted in 1400 when all his honours became jorleiled.{') He m. about April 1383, Maud, widow of Sir Alan BUSHOLL, K <?. (who d. 2 Nov. 1331), and formerly of John Aubrey, sometime (1373-74) Sheriff of London, da- and heinS) of Adam Francis, (*) See vol. iii, p. 100, note " f," tub " Devon." ( b ) See p. 34, note " f," as also vol. iv, p 352, note " a," sub " Keut." ' ( c ) See Blanche's " Earl of Kent." The date 1 349, or 1350, is usually given for this marriage. C 1 ) Walsingham [Sill. AnyUcana I, p. 371) calls him " Vir in armis a juventute exeicitatus et strcnuus." {') It is, however, noticeable that, within four months of the death of the late Earl "f Salisbury, William le Scrope was cr. (29 Sep. 1397), Earl of Wiltshire, a title (at that date) hardly consistent with an existing Earldom of Salisbury. The Earldom of Wiltshire, however, disappeared by attainder in 1399 and doeB not appear again till 1449. See p. 30, note " d." I f ) He was, says Froissart, " Tres hon chevalier et vailant." His rather weak- looking portrait (from Harl. MS. 1719) is engraved in " Doyle." (S) See the Jnq. post mortem of her father (1374-75), 49 Ed. III., No. 52, at which date she was the wife of John Aubrey. [Beltz's " Xttights of the Garter." p. 190, note 4.] The will, however, of this Adam Francis, mercer, dat. 26 Aug. 1374, and enrolled in the Court of Hustings next year, mentions his son, Adam Francis, junior, and Margaret, wife of the said son. It is printed in cxtenso in Cox's " St. Helens, f>ishops :/ a!e" H is, of course, possible that this son (in case of whose death without issue the testator wills his estate to his right heir) may have died s.p. about the same time as his father. D 2