Berta, of West Lulworth

Biography

Updated 17 September 2023

Extracted from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Montagu-56 and then edited.

Sir William de Montagu was born circa 1213. He was of Shepton Montague, Donyatt, Goathill, Thurlbear, & Chedzoy, Somersetshire, England. Keats-Rohan reports that he succeeded his grandfather as a minor in 1217.[1] Complete Peerage reports he was still under-age in 1227.[2]

He married Bertha circa 1233; They had 1 son (Sir Simon) & 1 daughter (Hawise, wife of Geoffrey de Neville).[3]

Sir William de Montagu died circa 23 September 1270.

"Sir William de Motacute had summons to attend the King into Gascony, against Alphonse 10th, King of Castile, who had usurped the province. The 41st of Henry III he was summoned to be with the King at Chester on the feast day of St. Peter, well furnished with horse and arms, thence to march against Llewellin ap Griffith prince of Wales. 42d of Henry III he had a similar citation."[4]

Children of Berthe and William de Montagu:

1. Hawise de Montagu b. c 1242, d. a 14 Feb 1273. Married Geoffrey Neville.
2. Sir Simon de Montagu, b. a 1249, d. 26 Sep 1316. 1st Lord Montagu, Custodian of Corfe & Beaumaris Castles, Captain & Governor of the Fleet. Married 1) Hawise de St. Armand 2) Isabel

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Genealogy

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(a) DREUX de Montagu (-before 1216) … m as her first husband, ALINE Basset, daughter of ALAN Basset of Wycombe & his second wife Aline de Gai. … She married secondly ([1219/24]%29 Richard [V] Talbot.

Dreux & his wife had one child:

(1) WILLIAM de Montagu ([1213]-23 Sep 1270). The Testa de Nevill includes a list of landholdings in Somerset, dated 1219, which includes "Willelmus filius Drogonis filii Willelmi de Monte Acuto est in custodia Alani Basset et terra sua de Turelberiz valet vi.l"[358]. … [360]. m BERTHE, daughter of --.

William & his wife had one child:

a. SIMON de Montagu (after 1250-26 Sep 1316, bur Bruton Priory). Confirmation of charters in favour of the canons of Christchurch Twynham, dated 27 Nov 1313, includes a charter under which "Simon de Monte Acuto, son and heir of William de Monte Acuto" confirmed a conveyance made by "William de Monte Acuto" of the town of Pideleton, for the souls of "William his father, and Hawise wife of the said Simon" dated May 1287[361]. m firstly ([1270]) HAWISE de Saint-Amand, m secondly (1287 or before) ISABEL, daughter of -(-after 1290).

Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-533734

The Feet of Fines relating to the county of Dorset, --:” edited by Edward A. Fry and George S. Fry, published 1896.

The Dorset fine dated 1289-1290 [pages 249/50] defines that the Abbot of Bynedon held lands in the manor of Westlullesworth of Simon Montague at the same terms as the fine dated 1257-1258. Therefore confirms that Berca was the mother of Simon Montague.

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References

• https://www.thepeerage.com/p15759.htm#i157585
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/MONTAGUE.htm#William%20De%20MONTAGUE3
• https://www.mathematical.com/montagusimonde1250.html
• https://cybergata.com/roots/380.htm Cites
  • Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Montagu), Vol. IX, p. 77
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-533734
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Montagu-56 cites
  • 1. Domesday Descendants p.593, citing Book of Fees p.261
  • 2. Complete Peerage 2nd ed. Vol. IX, p.75. Citing, Ancient Deed (P.R.O.) A 3220.
  • 3. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 110.
  • 4. Quoted at the Montagu Millenium website (dead link)
  • 5. Medieval Lands -- Montague (Earls of Salisbury)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Montagu,_1st_Baron_Montagu Simon Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (died 1316) … He was son of William de Montacute and Bertha, his wife. Simon first appears during King Edward I of England's great campaign in 1277 against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in Wales. ..
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Montagu,_1._Baron_Montagu Simon de Montagu came from the Montagu family, which was traced back to the Norman Drogo de Montagu, who had come to England during the Norman conquest. He was a son of William de Montagu and his wife Berthe. At the death of his father in 1270, he was still a minor, but a little later he must have taken over his father's inheritance, which mainly included possessions in Somerset.