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 36 SALISBURY. sometime (1352-54) Mayor of London. She, for whom robes of the Oirter were prepared in 140S, d. in 1424, leaving lier son, Alan Bnxhull, then aged 30, her heir. Will dat. 22 June 1423, directing her burial to be at Bishaui, pr. in 1421. » » » * • VII. 1409. 1,. Thomas de Moxtacute, 1st s. nnd li., h. 13SS, obtained the restoration of a great part of his father's estates ; was sum. to pari as EARL OF SALISBURY, 26 Oct. 1 409, bho- lie was not restored to the family dignities till 12 years later; KG. 1414, taking a leading and most distinguished part in the wars with France, to which kingdom he went twice (1414 and 1418) on an embassy. He was in 1419 made Lieut-Gen. of Normandy and was cr. 26 April 1419, COUNT OF PERCH E in Xorinandy(") to him and the heirs male of his body by the service of rendering to the King each year, at the castle of Caen, a sheathed sword. In (1421) 9 Hen. V. he was restored to his father's dignities,( b ), becoming thereby Karl of Salisbury [1337]. Loan Montactte [1299], Lord Monthehmer [1309] and Loud MONTACUTK [1357]. He was finally (April 1428) Capt, Gen. of the English army in France, and as such, while befiaegiug Orleans, wafl mortally wounded and if. three days later, 3 Nov. 1428, at Meung-sur-Loire,( D ) and was bur., with much state, at Bishara afsd.('') His will was pr. 30 March 1436, at Lincoln. («) He in. firstly Eleanor, 4th da. and [in 1407] coheir of Thomas (HOLAND), 2d Earl ok Kf.nt, by Alice, da. of Richard (Fit/.alan). Earl ok Arundel. She was bur. at Bisham afsd. He m. aecondlv, Alice, the childless widow of Sir John Philip (d. 1418), da. and h. of Thomas Chaucer, of Ewelme, Oxon (s. of Geoffrey CHAUCER, the poet) by Matilda, da. and coheir of Sir John BUHOHKUSH, of Ewelme afsd. By her he had no issue. She mi. (as her third husband), before 19 May 1 136, William (ok. la Pole), 1st Duke of Suffolk, who was murdered 2 May 1450. She d. 20 May or 9 June 1475 and was bur. at Ewelme. VIII. 1428. Alice, sua jiu% Countess of Salisbury,^) Baroness Montaci :tb, &c, only da. and h. by first wife, aged 22, at the death of her father, in 112S, having 4 years previously been married M below. She was living, as a widow, iu April 1461, but if. before Feb. 1462/3, and was bur. at Bisham afsd. Sir Richard Nevii.l, husband of tlio above (at her age of IS in 1424), was a yr. s. of Ralph (Nevill) 1st Earl OF Westmorland, being the eldest s. of the second wife, Lady Joan BeaUKoRT, the legitimated da. of John ( PlantageNKT, tatted "of Gaunt"), Duke ok Lancaster. He was b. 1400. and was Knightli before 11 June 1420, being then Warden of the West Marches towards Scotland ; haj carver at the coronation of the Queen Consort, Katharine, 21 Feb. 1421. He was (>) This was one of the Norman Earldoms, conferred by Henry V. as to which Bee vol. iii, p. 292, sub " En." (t>) " Notwithstanding his summons to Parliament he was not restored to the dignity held by his father till 9 Henry V. 1421, and the attainder of his father John, Earl of Salisbury was not reversed until 1 Edw. IV. 1461 " [CourlhopeJ ( c ) He " layde strong siege to the city of Orleans . . while one day he rested Iiiu at a bay window a gun was levelled out of the city which brake the timber or stone, that the pieces thereof all to quashed the face of the noble Earl, in such wise that be died within three days " [Fabian's Chronicle]. ( d ) Of him an old French author (Ltfebre St. Denis) writes, " Plus vaillant liomrae que lui ne fut en Angleterre ni ue put e'tre sous le soleil." Monstrelet, in liii says that he "of divers writers is named ibe good Earl." His portrait (fruO Hail. MS. 4826) is engraved in " DopU " and in Strutt'a " llrgul Antiquities."' («) Richard de Montacute, uncle of the late Earl, was found to be his heir '»»'', " yet the Earldom of Salisbury was assigned to the daughter's husband. This event furnishes an important example of the ancient law of inheritance in Earldoms, anil therefore claims our special attention. It appears [tint in this case it was considered) that a lineal male heir wa3 already in existence [fir.], the issue of the daughter's marriage ; and as she also was living, the husband's right to the dignity, for the terffli of his life, was considered complete." [Nichols's " Earldom uf Salisbury."]
 * Chronic/en," calls him " Trcs renomtne en arm eg, expert et subtil," while Fabiuii