• General Notes

  WILLIAM DE MONTGOMERY in 1284 was holding one fee and his son Ralph 2/3 fee in Ecton [VCH Northants, v. 4 p.123 cit ing Feudal Aids,iv, 14] of Avelina de Forz, Countess of Devon. The inquisition postmortem for Edmund the King's brother] 26 Edw I 1297, stated that in Derbyshire, William was holding 7 knights' fees in Sudbury, Cubley, Marston, Aston, Snelston, Somersal, Eyton, Seggeshale, Orleston and the manor of Ecton, co Northampton, with the advow sons of the churches of Sudbury, Cubley and Ecton. [CIPM v.3 ; no.423 ].Montgomery tenure subsequently transferred to Lancastrian overlordship. Summoned to serve against the Scots 7 Jul y 1297, from Staffordshire 25 May 1298 and again from Northants. Notts. and Derbys. 24 June 1300. In August 1300 he was involved in a suit against Urien St. Pierre. [C.Moor, Kni ghts of Edward I, v.III p.190]. This may have been over the manor of Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire which descended to th e Cokeseys and which was held of Nicholas Montgomery 1407 [ CIPM v.XIX, no.175]. In 1301 William de Montgomery was named amongst those tenants holding lands in Staffordshire worth 40 pounds p.a. or more. [VCH Staffordshire v.1 p.230]. I n 1303 he was given a letter of protection for going to Scotland on the king's service and a writ to select 500 footmen from Derbyshire and conduct them to Scotland. Died in 1303. Married to Alice, probably the sameAlice de Monte Gomeri widow of Gawain le Botiler of Wem (d.s.p.1289aged 19-20 ), who in 1334 was holding a third part of Hynstoke manor, Shropshire in dower. [CIPM v.VII ; no. 593]. Alice presented to Cubley church in 1332. [Cox. Churches of Derbyshire v.3 p.92-4]. In1334, as "Alice formerly wife of William de Montgomery of Cubley" she sued Edmund Cheigny, husband of Joan de Grendon, for an illegal distress. [Pedigrees f rom the Plea Rolls, The Genealogist, v. 9 p.9].She was not mother of William's son and heir, Walter.

Details of William's family with Alice