William III de Montacute 
William III was born on June 19th, 1328 in Cassington,Oxfordshire,England.1 He was an only child. He died at the age of 68 on June 3rd, 1397.1 General Notes
His will was written in a crude Anglo-French, showing the language changes of his day.
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Jim Weber
The 2nd Earl of this creation fought at Crecy and Poitiers and was a founder of the Knight of the Garter, outliving all his fellow first-generation KG's. He also went through a form of marriage and subsequently cohabited as husband with Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent". [Burke's Peerage]
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William III and Joan , "Fair Maid of Kent" were married in a religious ceremony about 1341.2 Their marriage was annulled.
Family Notes
William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, m. 1st, Joane, dau. of Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Kent, from whom he was divorced on account of the lady's pre-contract with Sir Thomas Holland. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London,1883, p. 371, Montacute, Barons Montacute, Earls of Salisbury]
William III and Joan Princess of were married in a religious ceremony about 1355 in Donyatt,Somersetshire,England. They had a son named John.
William III were married in a religious ceremony in <of Salisbury,Wiltshire,England>.
1 The Phillips, Weber, Kirk & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest
2 Who's Who in Late Medieval England, Michael Hicks, Shepheard-Walwyn, 1991.
Further source/citation:
Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages @ p. 371, Montacute, Barons Montacute, Earls of Salisbury
2 Who's Who in Late Medieval England, Michael Hicks, Shepheard-Walwyn, 1991.
Further source/citation:
Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages @ p. 371, Montacute, Barons Montacute, Earls of Salisbury
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