Edward Montagu KB (1602 - 1671)

Born 1602 in Yarnton, Oxfordshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Sussana (Hill) Montagu — married 6 Feb 1622 in London

Husband of Anne (Rich) Montagu — married 1 Jul 1626 (to 14 Feb 1641) in Stoke Newington, London, England

Husband of Essex (Cheeke) Montagu — married 30 Dec 1642 (to 28 Sep 1658) in London, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 5 May 1671 at about age 69 in Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, England

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Biography

Edward Montagu was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Edward Montagu KB is Notable.

Family and Education

b. c.1602, 1st s. of Sir Henry Montagu of Kimbolton Castle and 1st w. Catherine, da. of Sir William Spencer† of Yarnton, Oxon.; bro. of James. educ. Eton 1613-17; Sidney Sussex, Camb. 1618; travelled abroad (France, Low Countries) 1621-2; MA, Oxon. 1665. m. (1) 6 Feb. 1623, Susan (d. Jan. 1625), da. of John Hill, innkeeper of Honiley, Warws. 1da. d.v.p.; (2) 1 July 1626 (with £6,000), Anne (d. 14 Feb. 1642) da. of Sir Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick, 1s. 2da.;5 (3) 20 Dec. 1642, Essex (d. 28 Sept. 1658), da. of Sir Thomas Cheke of Pirgo, Essex, wid. of Sir Robert Bevill of Chesterton, Hunts., 6s. 2da.;6 (4) settlement 15 July 1659, Eleanor (d. 20 Jan. 1667), da. of Sir Richard Wortley of Wortley, Yorks., wid. of Sir Henry Lee, 1st bt. of Quarendon, Bucks., Sir Edward Radcliffe*, 6th earl of Sussex and Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick, s.p.;7 (5) lic. 1 Aug. 1667, Margaret (d. Nov. 1676), da. of Sir Francis Russell, 4th earl of Bedford, wid. of James Hay, 1st earl of Carlisle, s.p.8 cr. KB 2 Feb. 1626;9 styled Lord Mandeville from 5 Feb. 1626, summ. to Lords as Lord Kimbolton, 22 May 1626;10 suc. fa. as 2nd earl of Manchester 7 Nov. 1642;11 cr. KG 1 Aug. 1661.12 d. May 1671.13 sig. E[dward] Mountagu. ^[1]

A supporter of Parliament in the English Civil War, he was a general and was the commander of parliamentary forces at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.

Children of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester and Lady Anne Rich

1. Lady Anne Montagu d. c Jul 1689
2. Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester+3 b. 25 Apr 1634, d. 14 Mar 1682

Child of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester and Essex Cheeke

1. Lady Essex Montagu b. 1643, d. 1677

Sources

1. ↑ The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 [1]

• Ian J. Gentles, ‘Montagu, Edward, second earl of Manchester (1602–1671)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 17 May 2017. THis is a subscription site but access is free of charge to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.

• Venn Cambridge Alumni: Edward Montagu (1618)

• wikipedia:Edward_Montagu,_2nd_Earl_of_Manchester

• The Peerage [2]

• Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol 5, Pg 207 [3]