General Notes

Also Known As:<_AKA> William de /Montagu/
William Montacute, who erected a monastery at Montacute mountain andendowed it with the borough and market of Montacute. An ancient recordwritten about 1538 states, that "within the ruins of the Castle atMontacute is now a mean house for a farmer, the town hath a poor marketand is builded of stone as commonly all towns thereabouts be" (Leland'sItinerary, Vol. 1, Oxford, 1710). But little is know with regard to thisWilliam Montacute except that, one author says, "he was an only son," andthat he took care of the estate left him by his father, and died leavingit entire to an only son, Richard de Monteacuto. [Montagues in GreatBritain, Terry and Jason Fritts, The Montague Millennium, Gladstone,Missouri]