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Boughton House, Northamptonshire, heraldic mantelpiece dated post 1673, showing the pedigree of the Montagu family. "There was nothing but pedigrees all around me". From In English Homes. Full text of the book is available at the Internet Archive: Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3. The original house was a monastic building. Sir Edward Montagu (c.1485-1557), Lord Chief Justice to King Henry VIII, purchased it in 1528 just prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries and began to convert it into a mansion. Most of the present building is the work of his great-great grandson Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (1638-1709) who inherited the house in 1683/4. The mantelpiece, made at the height of the Baroque era, shows deliberately antiquated Tudor-style shields of the preceding century, and depicts the pedigree of the Montagu family of Boughton, which demontrates that family's claim to be descended from Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, which genealogists have been unable to prove. The dubious links are shields numbers 23-27, which are explained in the pedigree in the Heraldic Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618-19, from details reported by the family itself to the heralds (The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618-19: with Northamptonshire pedigrees from various Harleian mss. (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1887), p.37 [1]). The position according to modern genealogists is described in Appendix D of Cokayne, G. E.; H. A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden, eds. (1936). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Moels to Nuneham). 9 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press. Collins Peerage, Vol.II, p.42, suggests that the Montagu family of Boughton was descended from James "Montagu", a natural son of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury (1388-1428) (shield 21). The earliest proven ancestor of the Montagu family of Boughton is Thomas Montagu (d.1516) of Hemington, Northants (shield 45), the father of Sir Edward Montagu (1485-1557), Lord Chief Justice (shield 44). The father of Thomas Montagu (d.1516) of Hemington is said in GEC Peerage to have been Richard Ladde (alias Montagu), a yeoman at Hanging Hougton, Lamport, Northants, where that family is recorded on deeds from 1355. No explanation of his adoption of the surname Montagu has been found, but it is believed by GEC that it may have been due to "having to deal with some Montagu inheritance" (GEC), i.e. dictated by the terms of a bequest from a member of that family, as was common practice, requiring the legatee to adopt the surname and arms of the legator, where a branch of a family had died out in the male line. The Montagu family of Boughton used the coat of arms of Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, but differenced by a bordure sable, possibly intended as an indication of illegitimacy, as younger sons had prescribed heraldic symbols of cadency to indicate their legitimate status. Nevertheless they quartered Monthermer, ancestors of Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, undifferenced. The bottom row left-most shield shows the 1673 marriage of Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (1638-1709) to Lady Elizabeth Wriothesley. The roots of the family-tree of Monthermer rise at right, through the ancestry of King Henry II of England; the roots of the family-tree of Montagu rise from the roots at left. Montagu and Monthermer meet in marriage at middle top, shield 7 (Montagu impaling Monthermer (w:John Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (c.1330-1390) the second son of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury by his wife Catherine Grandison, and younger brother of William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (1328–1397). He married Margaret de Monthermer (daughter and heiress of Thomas de Monthermer, 2nd Baron de Monthermer by his wife Margaret de Brewes) by whom he was the father of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury), and their issue then descends row by row. 64 shields, top to bottom, left to right:
(See pedigree: Harvey, William; Augustine Vincent; and Walter C. (Walter Charles)(ed.) Metcalfe. The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618-19: with Northamptonshire pedigrees from various Harleian mss. (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1887), p.37[12]). He was the son of Robert del Wood of Nether Colewick, Nottinghamshire, and of Enfield, Middlesex (son of Henry Wood of Enfield by his wife Jane Strelley, daughter of John Strelley of Woodborough, Nottinghamshire) by his wife Elizabeth Slory, daughter and heiress of Thomas Slory of Nether Colewick, Nottinghamshire. Thus Enfield seems to be the earliest recorded seat of this branch of the Wood family. Robert Woode sold Nether Colewick to Sir John Byron of Over Colwick (the families of Slory and Byron having each inherited parts of Colwick from the de Colwick family). His sons (by Margaret Montagu) included John Wood of w:Woodborough, Nottinghamshire (fl.1629) (see pedigree in Robert Thoroton, 'Woodborough', in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 3, Republished With Large Additions By John Throsby, ed. John Throsby (Nottingham, 1796), pp. 31-35 [13]) and Montague Wood. Arms: Gules semée of crosses crosslet fitchée argent, three demi-woodmen holding clubs elevated proper (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, pp.1129 "Thomas Wood, Chief Justice", with woodmen "proper"; p.1130 "Wood of w:Woodborough, Nottinghamshire and Nether Colwick, Visit Notts, 1614", no tincture given for woodmen; Visit of Notts, p.86 gives woodmen as "argent"[14]. & see Burke, p.1130 "Wood of London and Enfield, descended from Woodborough", with woodmen "proper"); An augmentation of honour was granted by w:William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms 1557–1567, in recognition of a member of the family having captured "a Frenchman", i.e. a French ship: On a sinister canton azure as many fleurs-de-lis or (i.e. the royal arms of France (ancient)). The wild naked savage holding a club over his shoulder (a woodman) is common in several families named Wood (incl. Wood, Earl of Halifax). See w:Wild man, wild man of the woods, woodwose/wodewose. These are the arms of Sir w:Thomas Wode (d.1502) of Childrey in Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire), Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1500 and in 1478 a Member of Parliament for Wallingford. (Burke, p.1129). (Robert Thoroton, 'Colwick, Over and Nether', in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 3, Republished With Large Additions By John Throsby, ed. John Throsby (Nottingham, 1796), pp. 4-8 [15]). The Visitations of the County of Nottingham show his details on the same pedigree as the family of Wood of Enfield, Woodborough and Colewick, but he died leaving a daughter and sole heiress Elizabeth/Anne Wood who married Sir Thomas Stucley (1473-1542) of Affeton in Devon (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.721); no relationship is given as to how the two Wood families were related.
She married John Rous, of Rous Lench, Worcestershire. Arms: Sable, two bars engrailed argent (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.875 "Rouse of Rouse Lench, Worcestershire" (later baronets)) impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer.
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Source | Charles Latham (1847-1912), In English Homes, Vol. III, Country Life, London, 1909 [24] |
Author | Charles Latham (1847-1912) |
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