The title of Marquess of Montagu was created in 1470 for John Neville, 1st Earl of Northumberland, younger brother of

Warwick the Kingmaker Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined with Leamington Spa and ...

. Montagu was killed at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, and was attainted and the peerage forfeit.

Marquesses of Montagu (1470)

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John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (c. 1431 – 14 April 1471) was a major magnate of fifteenth-century England. He was a younger son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and the younger brother of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwi ...

(1431–1471), a leader in the

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, was created Marquess by Edward IV, King of England in return for surrendering his Earldom back to the Percy Earls of Northumberland {{DEFAULTSORT:Montagu

Marquess A marquess (; french: marquis ), es, marqués, pt, marquês. is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman ...

Forfeited marquessates in the Peerage of England Noble titles created in 1470