Everything about Thomas Montacute 4th Earl Of Salisbury totally explained
Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, (
1388 –
November 3,
1428), was an
English nobleman. He was one of the most important English commanders during the
Hundred Years' War.
He was the eldest son of
John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, who was killed while plotting against the
King in
1400, and his lands forfeited. Thomas did get back some of his father's lost lands, and helped his financial position further by marrying Eleanor Holland, a sister and eventual co-heiress of
Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, and daughter of
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent.
Thomas was summoned to
Parliament as
Earl of Salisbury in
1409, although he wasn't formally invested as earl until
1421. In
1414, he was made a
Knight of the Garter. In July
1415, he was one of the seven peers who tried
Richard, Earl of Cambridge on charges of conspiring against the
King. Montacute then joined Henry V in
France, where he fought at the Siege of
Harfleur and at the
Battle of Agincourt. Montacute fought in various other campaigns in France in the following years. In
1419, he was appointed lieutenant-general of Normandy, and then created Count of Perche, part of Henry V's policy of creating Norman titles for his noblemen. He spent most of the rest of his life as a soldier in France, leading troops in the various skirmishes and sieges that were central to that part of the
Hundred Years' War. On
27 October 1428 he was wounded during the
Siege of Orléans, when a cannonball broke a window near to where he stood, and he died a few days later.
He married twice, first (as mentioned above) to Eleanor Holland, and second to Alice Chaucer, daughter of
Thomas Chaucer and granddaughter of
Geoffrey Chaucer. They lived at
Bisham Manor in
Berkshire. His only legitimate child was a daughter from the first marriage,
Alice, who married
Richard Neville. Neville succeeded his father-in-law as earl.
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