Montacute Coat of Arms / Family Crest

Montacute

British Isles

Montacute

British Isles

Montacute

British Isles

Blazon description

(founded in England by Drogo de Monte Acuto, who came to England with William I. in the train of Robert, Earl of Moreton; he appears by Domesday Book to have held under the Earl the manors of Shipton Montacute and Sutton Montacute; from him descend all the noble families of Montacute and Montagu; his great-grandson, temp. Henry III., Dru de Montacute, had two sons: 1) Dru de Montacute, whose son, William de Montacute, left two daus. co-heirs, Margaret, wife of William de Echingham, and Isabel, wife of Thomas de Audham; 2) William de Montacute, who continued the male line). Ar. three lozenges in fess gu.

(Earl of Salisbury and Baron Montacute: passed to the Nevills, and through them to Plantagenet. Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, last of the Plantagenets, was beheaded and attainted, 1541; Simon de Montacute descended from William de Montacute, second son of Dru de Montacute, temp. Henry III., was summoned to Parliament 1300; William, third Baron Montacute, was created Earl of Salisbury by charter, 1337). Same Arms. Crest, from the Garter plate of William, second Earl of Salisbury, K.G., one of the Founder Knights—Out of a ducal coronet gu. a griffin’s head betw. two wings ar.

(Baron Montacute, Sir Edward de Montacute, youngest brother of William, first Earl of Salisbury, was summoned to Parliament 1342, d. 1361, when the barony devolved on his only dau. and heir, Joane de Montacute, wife of William de Ufford, second Earl of Suffolk, who d. s. p.). Same Arms, each lozenge charged with an eagle displ. a label of three points.

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