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:

• 1: A griffin segreant (Montagu (ancient)) impaling .....
• 2: A griffin segreant (Montagu (ancient))
• 3: A griffin segreant; apparently the arms of Montagu (ancient). This is the place in the pedigree for William de Montacute who by his wife Bertha, was the father of w:Simon de Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (d.1316) (shield 4). Azure, a griffin segreant or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.697 "Montague of Dorset"; "Montague tempore King Richard II") (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.II, London, 1874, p.981 "Simon de Montagu" "Montague of Dorset")
• 4: Montagu (modern ?) impaling King of Man (w:Simon de Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (d.1316), who married firstly Hawise de St Amand (died 1287), daughter of Amaury de St Amand, and secondly, Isabel, whose parentage is unknown). In 1304 Aufrica de Connoght, as an alleged heiress of the Magnús Óláfsson, King of Mann and the Isles, quitclaimed these claimed rights to Simon. In 1310 he was constituted Admiral of the Fleet employed against the Scots; Simon sought to seize control of the Isle of Man, and in so doing incurred the wrath of Edward II, who pardoned Simon for his actions against the island in 1313.
• 5: Montagu impaling Bendy or and azure (number of bends variable) (de Montfort of Beaudesert Castle) (w:William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu (c.1275-1319) (son of 4 w:Simon de Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu by which wife is not known), who married Elizabeth de Montfort, a daughter of Peter de Montfort (d.1287) (son of Peter de Montfort of Beaudesert Castle, Warwickshire))
• 6: King of Man quartering Montagu, all impaling Paly of six argent and azure, on a bend gules three eagles displayed or (de Grandison) (William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 3rd Baron Montagu, King of Man (1301-1344) (son of 5 William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu) who married Catherine de Grandison, daughter of William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison). Father of 17 and 7
• 7: Montagu impaling Monthermer (w:John Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (c.1330-1390) the second son of 6 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 22 John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
• 8: Monthermer, for w:Thomas de Monthermer, 2nd Baron de Monthermer (1301-1340), father-in-law of 7 John Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu
• 9: Monthermer; for Edward Monthermer (d.1340), 2nd son of 10 Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer;
• 10: Monthermer impaling Plantagenet (royal arms of King Edward I) (w:Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer (c.1270-1325) who married Joan of Acre, a daughter of King Edward I, and widow of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester)
• 11: Plantagenet impaling: Castile and Leon (royal arms of King Edward I, who married Eleanor of Castile.
• 12: Plantagenet impaling Provence (King Henry III (father of King Edward I) who married Eleanor of Provence, a daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1198–1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1198–1267), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his wife Margaret of Geneva
• 13: Plantagenet impaling Angoulême (Écu d'or taillé et tranché de gueules) (arms of King John (father of King Henry III) who married Isabella of Angoulême.
• 14: Arms of King Henry II (proto-Plantagenet impaling a lion passant (Aquitaine?) (father of King John) who married Eleanor of Aquitaine
• 15: A griffin segreant
• 16: Montagu impaling Gules, a lion rampant or (FitzAlan); arms of Sir William Montagu (d.1383), son and heir apparent of William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (1328-1397) (17), who predeceased his father, having married Elizabeth FitzAlan, a daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel.
• 17: Montagu impaling Mohun of Dunster: Or, a cross engrailed sable; arms of William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (1328-1397) (eldest son of 6 William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury) who married secondly Elizabeth de Mohun, daughter of John de Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster Castle in Somerset. He was predeceased by his son, and thus his heir became his nephew who became the 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
• 18: Arms of w:John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (1431-1471) (younger brother of 19 Warwick The King-Maker) who married Isabel Ingoldsthorpe. Arms: Party per fess Neville and Montagu quartering Monthermer, all impaling: Gules, a cross engrailed argent (Ingoldsthorpe) (Burke, 1884, p.529)
• 19: Neville impaling Beauchamp, for the"King-Maker" Richard Neville, 6th Earl of Salisbury, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471) (eldest son of 20 Richard Neville, jure uxoris 5th Earl of Salisbury), who married Anne Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick.
• 20: Neville impaling: Montagu quartering Monthermer; arms of Richard Neville, jure uxoris 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400-1460), who married Alice Montagu, suo jure 5th Countess of Salisbury, daughter sole-heiress and only child of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury. Father of 18 and 19.
• 21: Montagu quartering Monthermer impaling: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or a bordure argent (Arms of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (Plantagenet/Holland) (Arms of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, sixth son of Edward I of England, and a younger half-brother of Edward II): Royal arms of King Edward I (Plantagenet) differenced by a bordure argent; for w:Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury (1388-1428) (son of 22 John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury) who married Eleanor Holland, a daughter and eventual co-heiress of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent. His only child was Alice Montagu, the wife of Richard Neville, jure uxoris 5th Earl of Salisbury, and mother of the"King-Maker" Richard Neville, 6th Earl of Salisbury, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471), who married Anne Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick.
• 22: Montagu quartering Monthermer, impaling: Per bend sinister or and sable, a lion rampant counter-changed (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.376 "Fraunceys, Lord Mayor of London (1352, 1353)"); for w:John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (1350-1400) (son of 7 John Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (d.1390)) who married Maud Fraunceys, daughter of Sir Adam Francis I/Fraunceys (d.1374/5), a Mercer, twice Lord Mayor of London (1352, 1353) and seven times a Member of Parliament for the City of London, "one of the richest and most powerful citizens of mid 14th-century London" (History of Parliament biography of his son[2]). Lord of the manor of Edmonton, Middlesex "Probably originally as part of a mortgage made c. 1361, William de Say granted the manor (of Edmonton, Middlesex) to Adam Francis (Fraunceys), Mercer of London, who had already built up an estate in Edmonton. In 1369 Francis granted it to feoffees, who in 1371 settled it on him for life with remainder to his son Adam in fee. Sir Adam Francis I died in 1375 and was succeeded by his son, Sir Adam Francis II (d.1417), who left all his lands to be divided between his widow and his two daughters." (Source: A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, Eileen P Scarff and G C Tyack, 'Edmonton: Manors', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5, Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham, ed. T F T Baker and R B Pugh (London, 1976), pp. 149-154 [3]). Her brother was Sir Adam Francis II (d.1417), of London and Edmonton, Middlesex, MP. He was the son of John Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (1330-1390) and Margaret Monthermer, and the nephew and heir of William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (1328-1397)
• 23: Shields 23-27 represent unproven ancestors of Montagu of Boughton (see tudorplace.com[4]. 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). The earliest proven ancestor of the Montagu family of Boughton is Thomas Montagu (d.1516) of Hemington, Northants, the grandfather of Sir Edward Montagu (1530-1602), Lord Chief Justice. The father of Thomas Montagu (d.1516) of Hemington is said in most sources to have been Richard Ladde (alias Montagu), a yeoman at Hanging Houton, Lamport, Northants. Shield 23: Montagu quartering Monthermer impaling: Three bars / Barry of seven (de Boughton ?, not listed in Burke, 1884), for Simon de Montagu, the (supposed) younger brother of John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, and the younger son of John Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (1330-1390) by his wife Margaret de Monthermer. He was the (supposed) ancestor of the Duke of Montagu of Boughton House. The Heraldic Visitation describes him as "Sir Symond Montague of Boughton, who married Elia Boughton, daughter and heiress of William Boughton of the same place, Esq."[5]. However the estate of Boughton was not inherited by marriage but was bought in 1528 by Sir Edward Montagu, Lord Chief Justice.
• 24: Montagu quartering Monthermer impaling: Shields 23-27 represent unproven ancestors of Montagu of Boughton (see tudorplace.com[6]. The Heraldic Visitation describes him as "Thomas Montagu", no wife given.
• 25: Montagu quartering Monthermer impaling: Shields 23-27 represent unproven ancestors of Montagu of Boughton (see tudorplace.com[7]. The Heraldic Visitation describes him as "John Montagu", no wife given.
• 26: Montagu quartering Monthermer impaling: Shields 23-27 represent unproven ancestors of Montagu of Boughton (see tudorplace.com[8]. The Heraldic Visitation describes him as "William Montagu", no wife given.
• 27: Montagu quartering Monthermer impaling: Shields 23-27 represent unproven ancestors of Montagu of Boughton (see tudorplace.com[9]. The Heraldic Visitation describes him as "Richard Montagu", no wife given. This is Richard Ladde (d.1484) (alias Montagu), a yeoman at Hanging Houton, Lamport, Northants.
• 28: Semy of fleurs-de-lis impaling two lions passant gardant (Attributed arms of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou who married the Empress Matilda (the daughter of King Henry I of England), by whom he had King Henry II of England). Son of 46 w:Fulk, King of Jerusalem (c.1089/1092-1143) (Fulk V, Count of Anjou)
• 29:A griffin segreant
• 30: Montagu quartering Monthermer, an unidentified unmarried son of 44 Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice (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[10])
• 31: Montagu quartering Monthermer, an unidentified unmarried son of 44 Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice
• 32: Montagu quartering Monthermer, an unidentified unmarried son of 44 Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice
• 33: An unidentified married son of Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice. Arms: Montagu quartering Monthermer impaling: A lion rampant crowned
• 34: An unidentified married daughter of Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice. Arms: Three saltires impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer. Seemingly her husband was of the Lane family (arms Per pale azure and gules / gules and azure three saltires couped argent), the same family as her father's second wife Cicely (or Elizabeth) Lane, a daughter of William Lane of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire.
• 35: Margaret Montagu, a daughter of 44 Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice. She married Robert Woode of Nether Colewick, Nottinghamshire (See pedigree of Wood: Marshall, G. W., ed. (1871). The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the years 1569 and 1614, with many other descents of the same county. Harleian Society, 1st ser. Vol. 4. London, pp.86-7 [11]);

(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.

• 36: Mary Montagu, a daughter of 44 Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice. She married William Watts (d.1614) of w:Blakesley Hall, Northamptonshire. See their mural monument in St Mary's Church, Blakesley (no arms survive)[16]. Arms: Ermine, on a chief gules a bezant between two billets or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1084 "Watts of Blakesley, Northamptonshire") impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer.
• 37: Unidentifed married daughter of Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice. Arms: Three annulets/wreaths impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer. NB not included in shields 30-43 Isabel Montagu, who married Brian Lascelles/Lassells (c.1532-1613), of Gateford, Notts, MP for Nottingham in 1589. (See biography in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981[17]) (Arms of Lascelles: Sable, a cross patoncée or)
• 38: Anne Montagu, a daughter of 44 Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice.

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.

• 39: Eleanor Montagu, a daughter of 44 Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice. Arms: Argent, two chevrons azure a bordure engrailed gules (Tyrell/Tyrrell/Tirrell) impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer. She married thrice:

• 1:Richard Cave (d.1560) of Little Oakley, Essex. His brother Roger Cave (d.1586) married Margaret Cecil, sister of w:William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/41/34 1, SUMMARY: Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the last will and testament, dated 10 December 1556 together, with a codicil dated 20 January 1557, proved 10 September 1558, of Sir Thomas Cave (d.1558), whose son, Roger Cave, married Margaret Cecil, sister of Oxford’s father-in-law, William Cecil (1520/1-1598), Lord Burghley [18])
• 2:William Markham (1533-1570/1), MP for Nottingham in 1554, son of of Sir John Markham of Cotham, Nottinghamshire, MP[19];
• 3:Sir George Tyrell of Thornton, Buckinghamshire, by whom she was the mother of Sir w:Edward Tyrell (1551-1606), of The Toy, Thornton, Buckinghamshire, MP for Buckingham 1604-6 (History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010[20], mother given as "Eleanor Montagu").

• 40: An unidentified son of Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice. He married twice, arms impaled per tierce: Montagu quartering Monthermer, impaling dexter Fretty, sinister A demi-lion in chief;
• 41: Amy/Amicia Montagu, a daughter of 44 Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice. She married George Lynn (1525-1593) of Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire, MP for Stamford in 1584 (Biog. of LYNNE, George (c.1525-93), of Southwick, Northants, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981[21]). Arms: Gules, a demi-lion rampant or (Lynn of Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire (seat of the Lynn family between 1442 and 1840)) impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer.
• 42: Dorothy Montagu, a daughter of 44 Sir Edward Montagu (d.1557) of Boughton, Lord Chief Justice. She married Sir Edward Watson of Rockingham Castle, Northamptonshire, and was the grandmother of w:Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Rockingham (1584-1653). Arms of Watson, of Rockingham: Argent, on a chevron engrailed azure between three martlets sable as many crescents or impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer;
• 43: Montagu quartering Monthermer, impaling: Harrington (arms of Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) of Boughton (son of (44) Sir Edward Montagu (c.1485-1557)), who in 1557 married w:Elizabeth Harington, a daughter of James Harington of Exton, Rutland, by whom he had eight sons and four daughters (9 shown in shields 50-58). They had eight sons and four daughters. He was father of:

• w:Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton, ancestor of Montagu, Dukes of Montagu. He married Frances Cotton.
• Henry Montague
• Sir Walter Montague
• w:Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester (54), ancestor of Montagu, Dukes of Manchester and Montagu, Earls of Halifax. He married Catherine Spencer
• Sir Charles Montagu (52), who married Mary Whitmore, a daughter of William Whitmore (d.1593), Citizen of the City of London and Haberdasher (arms: Vert fretty or (Whitmore) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1105))
• James Montagu, Bishop of Winchester.
• Sir w:Sidney Montagu, who married Paulina Pepys. Ancestor of Montagu, Earls of Sandwich.
• Thomas Montague
• Lucy Montagu 57 who married w:Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth (arms: Azure, on a chief or three martlets gules (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1137)
• Susanna Montague
• Elizabeth Montagu who married w:Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
• Theodosia Montagu who married Sir John Capell; their son was w:Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham.

• 44: Sir Edward Montagu (c.1485-1557) of Boughton (father of 43), who first acquired that manor, and founded the fortunes of his family line. He married thrice: 1: Agnes Kirkham, a daughter of George Kirkham of Warmington in Northamptonshire; 2: Cicely (or Elizabeth) Lane, a daughter of William Lane of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire; 3: Eleanor Roper, a daughter of John Roper, attorney-general to Henry VIII, relict of John Moreton, and after Montagu's death wife of Sir John Digby. Arms: Montagu quartering Monthermer, impaling dexter Per pale azure and gules / gules and azure three saltires couped argent (Lane); impaling sinister: Roper (Per fesse azure and or, a pale counter-changed and three buck's heads erased of the second).
• 45: Thomas Montagu (d.1517) lord of the manor of Hemington, Northamptonshire (father of 44) who married Agnes Dudley, a daughter of William Dudley of Clopton, Northamptonshire. Montagu quartering Monthermer, impaling: Azure, a chevron or between three lion's heads erased argent (Dudley of Clopton, Northamptonshire) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.303). His monumental brass survives in Church of St Peter & St Paul, Hemington Northamptonshire, showing himself (in civilian clothing) and his wife[22], with two shields: one showing the arms of Montagu (modern), with bordure sable, but quartering Montagu (ancient) A griffin segreant, not Monthermer. The other shield showing Dudley of Clopton quartering A cross between four roses ? Brass inscribed: Of your charite pray for the soules of Thomas Montagu, gentilman, and Agnes his wyff. Which Thomas decessed the 5 day of September, the yer of our Lord 1517. On whos soules Jesu have mercy. (Source: Brydges, Sir Egerton (ed?), (1812), Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, biographical and historical, vol. 2, quoted in [23])
• 46: w:Fulk, King of Jerusalem (c.1089/1092-1143) (Fulk V, Count of Anjou), father of 28 Geoffrey Plantagenet
• 47:
• 48: Elizabeth Montagu (a daughter of w:Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton (cr.1621) (1562-1644)) (53), who married Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey. Arms: Bertie ( Argent, three battering rams fesswise in pale proper armed and garnished azure) impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer.
• 49: Frances Montagu (a daughter of w:Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton (cr.1621) (1562-1644)) (53), who married w:John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland. Arms: Manners (Or, two bars azure a chief quarterly azure and gules in 1st and 4th quarters two fleurs-de-lis and in the 2nd and 3rd a lion passant guardant all or) impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer.
• 50: An unidentified married daughter of Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) of Boughton, by his wife Elizabeth Harington. She married ......, arms: Three ..... on a chevron impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer.
• 51: An unidentified married son of Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) of Boughton, by his wife Elizabeth Harington. He married .........., arms: A griffin segreant.
• 52: Sir Charles Montagu (c.1564-1625), of Cranbrook Hall in the parish of Barking, Essex, a son of Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) (43) of Boughton, by his wife Elizabeth Harington. He married twice, firstly to Mary Whitmore, a daughter of William Whitmore (d.1593), Citizen of the City of London and Haberdasher (arms: Vert fretty or (Whitmore) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1105))
• 53: w:Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton (cr.1621) (1562-1644), eldest son of 43 Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) of Boughton, by his wife Elizabeth Harington. His arms are tierce per pale: baron: Montagu quartering Monthermer; dexter: Cotton of Conington; sinister: Jeffrey of Chiddingly. He married thrice, producing two daughters and three sons:

• Firstly to Elizabeth Jeffrey, the daughter and heiress of Sir John Jeffrey of Chiddingly, Sussex (arms: Azure fretty or, on a chief argent a lion passant gules (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.538)), by whom he had a daughter:

• Elizabeth Montagu (48), who married Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey.

• Secondly he married Frances Cotton, a daughter of Thomas Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire, and a sister of Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington (arms: Azure, an eagle displayed argent), by whom he had three sons and at least one daughter, including:

• Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton (1616–1684) (60);
• William Montagu, (1618-1706), (59) Chief Baron of the Exchequer,
• Frances Montagu (49), who married John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland.

• Thirdly he married Anne Crouch, a daughter of John Crouch of Corneybury, Hertfordshire, and widow successively of Robert Wynchell, Richard Chamberlain and Sir Ralph Hare of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk.

• 54: w:Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester (c.1563-1642), 3rd son (who married twice, including to Catherine Spencer) of Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) of Boughton, by his wife Elizabeth Harington.
• 55: Arms of the See of Winchester impaling: Montagu quartering Monthermer (Arms of James Montague (c. 1568 – 20 July 1618), Bishop of Winchester, a son of Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) of Boughton, by his wife Elizabeth Harington).
• 56: Sir w:Sidney Montagu (d.1644), MP, of Hinchingbrooke House, Cambridgeshire, a son of Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) of Boughton, by his wife Elizabeth Harington. He married Pauline Pepys, a daughter of John Pepys of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire. His son was w:Edward Montagu, 1st earl of Sandwich. Arms: Montagu quartering Monthermer, all impaling Pepys Sable, on a bend or between two nag's heads erased argent three fleurs-de-lis of the field
• 57: Lucy Montagu, a daughter of 43 Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) of Boughton, by his wife Elizabeth Harington. Lucy Montagu married w:Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth (arms: Azure, on a chief or three martlets gules (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1137)
• 58: An unidentified married daughter of Sir Edward Montagu (c.1530-1602) of Boughton, by his wife Elizabeth Harington. Arms: Semée of crosses (?), a lion rampant impaling Montagu quartering Monthermer.
• 59:Montagu quartering Monthermer, impaling Azure, a chevron between three eagle's heads erased or (Aubrey of Llantrithyd, Glamorgan). William Montagu (1618-1706), Chief Baron of the Exchequer, younger son of 53 (w:Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton), who married twice, Elizabeth Freeman then Mary Aubrey, daughter of w:Sir John Aubrey, 1st Baronet (c.1606-1679) of Llantrithyd, Glamorgan
• 60:Montagu quartering Monthermer, impaling Argent, a cross bottony sable (Winwood) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1125 "Winwood of Ditton Park and Quainton, Buckinghamshire"). w:Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton (1616–1684) who married Anne Winwood, a daughter of Sir w:Ralph Winwood (c.1563-1617) of w:Ditton Park in Buckinghamshire, Secretary of State, the son of Richard Winwood of Aynhoe in Northamptonshire.
• 61: w:Fulk IV, Count of Anjou (1043-1109), father of 46 Fulk V, Count of Anjou, father of 28 Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou
• 62:Montagu quartering Monthermer, impaling: Azure, a cross or between 4 doves close argent, beaks & legs gules (Wriothesley) (w:Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (who married Lady Elizabeth Wriothesley, the wealthy widow of Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland and daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton), son of Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton (1616–1684) (no.60) by his wife Anne Winwood)
• 63:Montagu quartering Monthermer (Edward Montagu (d.1665), MP for Sandwich, unmarried elder brother of w:Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, who having been killed in action predeceased their father)
• 64: Popham (Argent, on a chief gules two stag's faces cabossed or) impaling: Montagu quartering Monthermer. Alexander Popham (c.1670-1705), of Littlecote House, Wiltshire, married Anne Montagu, a daughter of w:Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (1638-1709). From the position of the shield she is shown as a sister of Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu. In this position should be Elizabeth Montagu, the sister of Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, who married w:Sir Daniel Harvey, Ambassador at Constantinople, whose arms were: Or, on a chief indented sable three crescents argent (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.463 "Harvey of Chigwell, Essex"). Possibly 63 and 64 are intended for the two children of Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (when his son was still unmarried), yet the vine stems are positioned incorrectly to indicate that.