Thomas Montgomery

Also known as: Thomas Montgomerie / sir Thomas Montgomerie · Family: House of York · Role: knight · First appears: Edward IV 15

Life events

c. 1471 · William Parr, James Harrington, Thomas Burgh, and Thomas Montgomery reinforced Edward IV with armed men.(Edward IV 15 · 📍 Notingham)
- With: Edward IV William Parr James Harrington Thomas Burgh
- “Here came to him sir William Parre, and sir Iames Harrington, with six hundred men well armed and appointed also there came to him sir Thomas Burgh, & sir Thomas Montgomerie with their aids”
1475 · Thomas Montgomery was richly rewarded, while John Howard and John Cheyne returned from hostage custody.(Edward IV 33)
- With: John Howard, Duke of Norfolk John Cheyne
- “Sir Thomas Montgomerie was with plate richlie rewarded, and so dispatched. There returned with him the lord Howard and sir Iohn Cheinie, which were hostages with the French king, till the English armie were returned into England.”

sworn: Edward IV “Here came to him sir William Parre, and sir Iames Harrington, with six hundred men well armed and appointed also there came to him sir Thomas Burgh, & sir Thomas Montgomerie with their aids, which caused him at their first comming to make proclamation in his owne name, to wit, of K. Edward the fourth, boldlie affirming to him, that they would serue no man but a king.”

with Louis XI (The French king gave rewards to these English officials and nobles.) “to the lord Howard, to sir Thomas Montgomerie, to sir Thomas Sentleger, to sir Iohn Cheinie maister of the kings horsses, to the marques Dorsset, sonne to the queene, and diuerse other, he gaue great and liberall rewards”
sworn: Louis XI “and to the lord Howard, to sir Thomas Montgomerie, to sir Thomas Sentleger, to sir Iohn Cheinie maister of the kings horsses, to the marques Dorsset, sonne to the queene, and diuerse other, he gaue great and liberall rewards”

sworn: Edward IV “The king of England aduertised hereof, sent ouer sir Thomas Montgomerie to the French king, offering to passe the seas againe the next summer in his aid, to make warres on the duke Burgognie;”
with Louis XI (The French king rewarded the ambassador.) “Sir Thomas Montgomerie was with plate richlie rewarded, and so dispatched.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.