Robert Peake, Portrait of Lord Montague, 1601

Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton KB (AKA Sir Edward Montague of Boughton Castle) (c. 1562 – 15 June 1644) was an English politician.

Life

Montagu was the son of Sir Edward Montagu and his wife

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, a daughter of James Harington of Exton. He matriculated at

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in about 1574 and graduated BA on 14 March 1579. He was a student of the

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in 1580. He succeeded his father in 1602. In 1584, he was elected

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for

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, in 1597 for

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and in 1601 for

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. He was created Knight of the Bath by James I at his coronation on 25 July 1603. He was appointed

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for 1595–96. In 1604 Montagu was elected MP for

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. On 9 February 1605, with other gentlemen of Northamptonshire, he presented a petition to the king in favour of those ministers in the county who refused subscription. The petitioners were warned that their combination "in a cause against which the king had shewed his mislike … was little less than treason." Montagu was for the time deprived of his lieutenancy and justiceship of the peace in the county. He was one of the key founders of what is known today as

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through his sponsorship, in Parliament, of the

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. He was re-elected MP for Northamptonshire in 1614 for the

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and in 1621. He was created Baron Montagu of Boughton on 29 June 1621. Montagu supported King

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in the Civil War, which led to his arrest in August 1642. He was imprisoned for a time in the

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, but was moved to the

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due to ill health, and died a prisoner in 1644. He was buried at Weekley.

Marriages and issue

He married three times: *Firstly to Elizabeth Jeffrey, the daughter and heiress of Sir John Jeffrey of Chiddingly, Sussex, by whom he had a daughter: :*Elizabeth Montagu, who married

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. *Secondly he married Frances Cotton, a daughter of Thomas Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire, and a sister of

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, by whom he had three sons and at least one daughter, including: :*

Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton (11 July 1616–10 January 1684) of Boughton House, Northamptonshire was an English peer and politician. Life He was born at Weekley on 11 July 1616, the eldest son of Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Monta ...

; :* William Montagu,

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, :*Frances Montagu, who married

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. *Thirdly he married Anne Crouch, a daughter of John Crouch of Corneybury, Hertfordshire, and widow successively of Robert Wynchell, Richard Chamberlain and Sir Ralph Hare of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk.

References

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