John Montagu, Earl of Salisbury
Also known as: Iohn Montacute earle of Salisburie / Iohn earle of Salisburie / John Montacute, Earl of Salisbury · Family: England · Role: earl · First appears: Richard II 66
Life events
- c. 1397 · Richard II procured indictments against eight nobles to secure their prosecution in Parliament.(Richard II 66 · 📍 Notingham)
- With: Richard II Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent John Holland, Duke of Exeter Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Somerset Thomas Spencer, Lord Spencer William Scrope, Lord Scrope
- “Shortlie after, he procured them to be indicted at Notingham, suborning such as should appeale them in parlement, to wit, Edward earle of Rutland, Thomas Mowbraie earle marshall, Thomas Holland earle of Kent, Iohn Holland earle of Huntington, Thomas Beaufort erle of Summerset, Iohn Montacute earle of Salisburie, Thomas lord Spenser, and the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine.”
- c. 1398 · Richard II granted selected nobles and knights broad authority over both parliamentary houses.(Richard II 69 · 📍 Shrewesburie)
- With: Richard II John of Gaunt Edmund Langley, Duke of York Edmund Langley, Duke of York Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent John Holland, Duke of Exeter John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset Roger Mortimer, Earl of March Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland Thomas le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester William Scrope, Earl of Wiltshire John Hussey Henry Cheyne Robert Tey John Golafre
- “The king so wrought & brought things about, that he obteined the whole power of both houses to be granted to certeine persons, as to Iohn duke of Lancaster, Edmund duke of Yorke, Edmund duke of Aumarle, Thomas duke of Surrie, Iohn duke of Excester, Iohn marquesse Dorset, Roger earle of March, Iohn earle of Salisburie, and Henrie earle of Northumberland, Thomas earle of Glocester, and William earle of Wiltshire, Iohn Hussie, Henrie Cheimeswike, Robert Teie, and Iohn Goulofer knights, or to seauen or eight of them.”
- c. 1399 · Richard II sent John Montagu to raise forces against Henry IV.(Richard II 75 · 📍 England)
- With: Richard II
- “In the meane time, he sent the earle of Salisburie ouer into England, to gather a power togither”
- c. 1399 · John Montagu gathered forty thousand men to support Richard II against Henry IV.(Richard II 75 · 📍 Conwaie)
- With: Richard II
- “insomuch that within foure daies space, there were to the number of fortie thousand men assembled, readie to march with the king against his enimies”
- c. 1399 · The assembled Welsh forces dispersed after Richard II failed to arrive.(Richard II 75 · 📍 Conwaie)
- With: Richard II
- “but when he came not within that tearme, they would no longer abide, but scaled & departed awaie”
- c. 1399 · The conspirators planned to kill Henry IV during jousts and restore Richard to liberty and power.(Henry IV 5 · 📍 Oxford)
- With: John Holland, Duke of Exeter Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester John, Bishop of Carlisle Thomas Blount Maudelen Henry IV
- “when he should be most busilie marking the martiall pastime, he suddenlie should be slaine and destroied, and so by that means king Richard, who as yet liued, might be restored to libertie, and haue his former estate & dignitie.”
- c. 1399 · The conspirators sealed an indenture and swore to keep their plot secret until death.(Henry IV 5)
- With: John Holland, Duke of Exeter Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester John, Bishop of Carlisle Thomas Blount Maudelen
- “Hervpon was an indenture sextipartite made, sealed with their seales, and signed with their hands, in the which each stood bound to other, to do their whole indeuour for the accomplishing of their purposed exploit. Moreouer, they sware on the holie euangelists to be true and secret each to other, euen to the houre and point of death.”
Richard II 66
- with Richard II (The king explicitly trusted the Earl of Salisbury.) “The king had little trust in any of the nobilitie, except in his brother the earle of Huntington, and the earle of Rutland sonne to the duke of Yorke, and in the earle of Salisburie:”
Richard II 69
- sworn: Richard II “Iohn marquesse Dorset, Roger earle of March, Iohn earle of Salisburie, and Henrie earle of Northumberland”
Richard II 75
- sworn: Richard II “In the meane time, he sent the earle of Salisburie ouer into England, to gather a power togither, by helpe of the kings freends in Wales, and Cheshire, with all spéed possible, that they might be readie to assist him against the duke”
Henry IV 5
- enemies with Henry IV “The abbat after he had felt the minds of sundrie of them, called to his house on a day in the terme time, all such lords & other persons which he either knew or thought to be as affectioned to king Richard, so enuious to the prosperitie of king Henrie, whose names were, Iohn Holland earle of Huntington late duke of Excester, Thomas Holland earle of Kent late duke of Surrie, Edward earle of Rutland late duke of Aumarle sonne to the duke of Yorke, Iohn Montacute earle of Salisburie”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.