Drew de Montagu , Sir Knight 
Drew de was born about 1127 in Shepton Montagu, Somerset, England. Drew de's father was Richard de Montagu , Sir Knight and his mother was Alice. His paternal grandfather was William Monte Acuto. He was an only child. He died before 1196.General Notes
Drue de Monteacuto, upon the assessment of the aid for marrying the king's daughter, 12th Henry II (1167), certified his knight's fees to be nine in number, a half and a third part of the old feoffment and one of the new. He married Aliva, daughter of Alan Basset, baron of Wicombe, in co. Bucks, by whom he had issue, Drue, a son; an only daughter who became a nun at Shaftsbury; and William. After his death, she married 2nd, Richard, son of Gilbert Talbot, ancestor to the Earls of Shrewsbury.
His eldest son, also named Drue, who died during his father's lifetime, married, however, and left two sons, John and William. The elder son, John, was seated at March, in co. Bucks, a manor situated northwest from Alesbury and near the Oxford county line. He married Lucy, and had a daughter, Katherine, who married Warine Bassett. The younger son, William, had no male issue, but had two daughters, namely, Margaret, married to William de Echingham, and Isabel, married to Thomas de Audham.
He was succeeded by his younger son, William de Montacute. [Montagues in Great Britain, Terry and Jason Fritts, The Montague Millennium, Gladstone, Missouri]
They had a son named William I de.
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Children
William I de Montagu , Sir Knight
William I de was born about 1157 in Shepton Montagu, Bishopstone, Somerset, England. He died in June 1217. He was buried in Sheriff of Dorset & Somerset.
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