General Notes

Sir William de Montacute, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 20 November, 1317, to 25 August, 1318. This nobleman had distinguished himself in the Scottish wars, in the lifetime of his father, and was made a knight of the Bath. In the 11th Edward II [1318], being then a steward of the king's household, his lordship was constituted seneschal of the Duchy of Aquitaine, and had license to make a castle of his house at Kersyngton, in Oxfordshire. He subsequently obtained other extensive grants from the crown. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Peter de Montfort, of Beaudesert, by whom (who m. 2ndly, Thomas, Lord Furnival), he had surviving issue, William, his successor; Simon, in hold orders, bishop of Worcester, translated to the see of Ely, in 1336; Edward (Sir), summoned to parliament as a Baron, temp. Edward III; Katherine, m. to Sir William Carrington, Knt.; Alice, m. to --- Auberie; Mary, m. to Sir -- Cogan; Elizabeth, prioress of Haliwell; Hawise, m. to Sir -- Bavent; Maud, abbess of Berking; Isabel, a nun at Berking. His lordship d. in Gascony, 1319, but was buried at St. Frideswide, now Christ Church, Oxford. He was s. by his eldest surviving son, William de Montacute, 3rd baron Montacute. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 371, Montacute, Barons Montacute, Earls of Salisbury]