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  Earls of Shrewsbury - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
SHREWSBURY The earldom of Shrewsbury, however, at last he did return to England in 1707 he gradually one of the most ancient in the English peerage, dates from the became alienated from his old political associates, and in 17.10 time of William the Conqueror.
On the 30th Shrewsbury and other ministers carrying with it the title of earl of Shropshire, though, from his assembled at Kensington Palace, and being admitted to the principal residence at the castle of Shrewsbury, he like his sucqueen's bedchamber Bolingbroke recommended the appointment cessors was generally styled earl of Shrewsbury.
The duke of Shrewsbury was one of the greatest noblemen of the reign of Queen Anne.
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 Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known as Roger the Great de Montgomery, son of another Roger de Montgomerie, who was a relative, probably a grandnephew, of the duchess Gunnor, wife of duke Robert I of Normandy, was the first earl of Shrewsbury.
Roger was one of William the Conqueror's principal counselors.
Roger was thus one of the half a dozen greatest magnates in England during William the Conqueror's reign.
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 Clan Montgomery
Montgomery followed King William to England where he was created Earl of Arundel, he was later made Earl of Shropshire or Shrewsbury and the county of Montgomery is named after him.
The 9th Earl was one of the Privy Council of King William and later Queen Anne and during the rebellion of 1715 actively promoted the training of the fencible men of Ayrshire.
The Montgomeries and the Cunninghams had one of the longest running feuds in Scotland; in the 16th century Eglinton House was burnt and the 4th Earl was killed by Cunninghams, finally it was resolved by the government.
www.highlandtraveller.com /clans/montgomery.html   (443 words)

  
 35th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Roger FitzHamon Lord Glamorgan, Corboil, Cruelly, and Thoringni, and Earl of Gloucester was born circa 1050 in Gloucestershire, England.
Roger de Montgomerie II, Earl of Arundel and Shrewsbury was born circa 1030 in Mortaigne, Manche département, Basse-Normandie région.
Roger de Montgomery, son of another Roger de Montgomery, known as "the Great," was a councillor of William, duke of Normandy, before his invasion of England and was probably entrusted by William with the government of Normandy during the expedition of 1066.
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 Rotherham Web: Earl of Shrewsbury with Pedigree
The Earl of Shrewsbury is the senior Earl in the Peerage of England.
The fourth and fifth Earls of Shrewsbury were both prominent at Court under the early Tudors and the Talbot patrimony reached its greatest extent in the time of Francis, the fifth Earl, who had large grants of monastic and chantry lands, notably Rufford, Worksop Priory, Glossop and Rotherham.
The marriage of Alathea, the youngest, to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel whose mother was Anne, one of the sisters and co-heiresses of George, Lord Dacre of Gilsland.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Earl Roger De Montgomery SHREWSBURY ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
Roger was Viscount of the Hiemois; and Gilbert, his youngest brother, was unintentionally poisoned by his sister-in-law, as I shall hereafter have occasion to mention.
The genealogy of the Dukes of Normandy from Rollo is in all the collateral portions exceedingly confused, and the chronology of the duchy itself beset with difficulties.
Roger de Montgomeri married, in 1048, Mabel, the daughter of that William, and niece of Ivo de Belesme, Bishop of Séez from 1035 to 1070.
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 Ancestors of Robert Erwin William Juch - aqwg103
Roger de Montgomery 1st Earl of Shrewsbury is printed as #610583492.
On the erection of a castle and the consequent growth of the town, the name of the district in which they were situated was transferred to them, and subsequently to the whole of the county of which that town became the capital.
Leofwine Earl of Mercia was born 950 in Mercia, England.
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 Hissem_de Montgomery Family
No doubt the Montgomery who struck the cruel blow thought that he had killed the young duke, and went away well satisfied; but William was rescued, and carried away and hidden in a peasant's cottage, while the butchery of his friends and attendants still went on.
Roger became Seigneur of Bellême and Count of Alencon by right of his wife upon the death of her uncle, Ivo de Bellême, the Bishop of Sees.
Roger's second son, Hugh succeeded to his father's English estates of Arundel, Chichester and Shrewsbury in England and was made the Second Earl of Arundel and Shrewsbury, and Lord of Montgomery, on the Welsh marches.
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 montgomery community college   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Montgomery, Alberta was a town in Canada that was annexed by the city of Calgary in 1963.
Montgomery is a former name of the city of Sahiwal, Pakistan founded in 1864.
Montgomery is better known to history as the paternal grandfather of Field Marshal Bernard Alan Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
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 Hen Domen, Old Montgomery Castle
Roger of Montgomery was lord of large areas of land in Powys and an important noble in the new Norman world.
Barker, P.A. and Higham, R.A., 1981, ‘Hen Domen, Montgomery.
Barker, P.A. and Higham, R.A., 1980, ‘Hen Domen, Montgomery.
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 Saul's 32 Gen - tobg61 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Adele de Vexin was born in 1032 in (of) Valois, Bretagne, France.
Roger de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury was born about 1005.
Roger de Montgomery "the Poitevin" died in 1123.
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 MyClan.com : Clan Montgomery : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Roger de Mundegumbrie, whose mother was the niece of the great-grandmother of William the Conqueror, accompanied his kinsman on the invasion of England and commanded the van at Hastings in 1066.
Montgomery was rewarded with the grant for life of the island of Arran and the keepership of Brodick Castle.
In 1586 the earl was riding from Eglinton to Stirling when he was attacked by John Cunningham, brother of the Earl of Glencairn, with several of his close kinsmen and retainers.
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 Janet's Genealogy
“Roger de Montgomerie eldest son of Count Hugh and Josseline, Count of Montgomerie and Viscount of Exmes in Normandy and subsequently Earl of Shewsbury, Arundel and Chichester, in England, was one of the most powderful and influential nobles of Duke William of Normandy’s court.
“Roger de Montgomeries accompanied William the Conqueror to England, afterwards became the Earl of Shrewsbury and from this Earl the Scottish Montgomeries claim to be descended.
Alexander de Montgomerie succeeded his father [1357-1380] and was designated on charter of David II in 1357, as ‘Alexander de Montgomerie, de Ealgesham, filius Johannes de Montgomerie.” He married a daughter of William, first Earl of Douglas, by second wife, Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Dunbar and Marche.
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 www.Cadfael.de
Shrewsbury is situated on an area of land that is easily defendable due to its being almost totally surrounded by a river (the river Severn).
In the 7th century an area that included Shrewsbury was claimed by Penda of Mercia but the area known as Mercia was separated from the rest of that area in 829 by Edward the Elder, ruler of Wessex.
Shrewsbury had a number of Norman Earls but when this ended, Shrewsbury was placed under a royal steward and received its first charter under Henry 1st who visited the town in 1126 and gave it to his second wife, Adeliza who then appointed William FitzAlan as her deputy.
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 reagenealogy - pafn141 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Roger, was seigneur of the castle and township of Mortemer sur Eaulne, a place situated on a hill which had at some point been surrounded by an ox- bow lake of the River Eaulne.
Roger's heir Ralph came to England and took a conspicuous part with Roger de Montgomery in the defeat of Wild Edric of Shrewsbury at Wigmore Castle in 1074.
Roger's grandson, another Roger, inherited wide estates in England, Wales and Ireland, married well, became a succesful soldier in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France and staged a revolt against the king.
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 32nd Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gwladys Ferch Rhiwallon was born 1045 in Wales and married 1080 in Wales.
Roger de Montgomery, son of another Roger de Montgomery, known as "the Great," was a councilor of William, duke of Normandy, before his invasion of England and was probably entrusted by William with the government of Normandy during the expedition of 1066.
Roger de Berkeley I "Senior" was born circa 1042 in Berkeley, Thornbury, Gloucestershire County, England and married 1067.
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 Brink-Day-Johnston-Fletcher - Person Page 301
1st of Dunnyveg and the Glens (Clann Iain Mhor Ile).
Earl Rainald’s brother attested 2 charters of the earl as “Willelmo fratre meo.' and issued a charter as 'Willelmus de Marisco frater Reginaldi comitis Cornubie,' in which he mentions his wife Alice.
William de Warenne was probably the 2nd Earl of Surrey, the only man of that name known to be living at the time, who was 4th in descent from the common ancestors: the parents of Gunnor, Duchess of Normandy.
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 FITZMAURICE: Norman, Welch, and Legendary Ancestors
Arnulph was the fourth son of Roger de Montgomery, who led the center of the Norman army at the Battle of Hastings.
Roger was made an Earl with large holdings of land in Wales.
The family of Montgomery in Scotland was founded by Robert de Montgomery in the second part of the 12th century when he obtained the lands of Eaglesham in Renfrewshire.
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 Hotels Montgomery
Montgomery Township is a township located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Montgomery is an author and progenitor of the Choose Your Own Adventureseries.
Montgomery graduated from Williams College and attended graduate school at Yale University and NYU.
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 C.U.H.&G.S. -- "The Escutcheon" -- Vol. 9 No. 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Around 1070 Roger de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, built a motte and bailey castle (Hen Domen) to guard the Rhydwhiman ford in Powys, and around this developed the town and county of Montgomery.
It is likely that he was a descendant of Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury, but there is no direct evidence to support either Sir William Fraser’s claim of a descent from Roger’s fifth son Arnulf, castellan of Pembroke Castle, or Dr. Montgomery’s assertion of descent from Roger’s eldest son, Robert de Belesme.
The genealogy of the Earls of Eglinton in table 20 omits the date of death (21 April 1966) of the 17th Earl.
www.cam.ac.uk /societies/cuhags/escutch/2003-04/br_e.htm   (1415 words)

  
 SHREWSBURY, EARLS OF - Online Information article about SHREWSBURY, EARLS OF
SUSSEX, THOMAS RADCLYFFE [or RATCLYFFE], 3RD EARL OF (c.
earl of Arundel, or probably and more correctly earl of Sussex.
residence at the castle of Shrewsbury, he like his successors was generally styled earl of Shrewsbury.
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 Some proposed corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 11: Shrewsbury
It is witnessed by Hugh, the grantor's son; Vernier wrongly attributes it to Roger II.
He traces Hugh's pedigree as follows: Senfrie, sister of Gunnor, had a daughter Josceline, the mother of Roger de Montgomery, who had a daughter Mabel married to Gervase de Châteauneuf, by whom she was the mother of Hugh.
Taken as a whole the evidence seems to show that Roger I's wife was Josceline, a niece of Gunnor.
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 Earl of Arundel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury was one of William the Conqueror's top generals, and William bestowed on him, amongst several hundred other manors, the property at Arundel, with the charge to fortify it with a castle.
Montgomery is believed to have built the motte that is extant to this day, and is thought to have built a wooden keep on it, overlooking the river Arun.
Montgomery and two of his sons are counted by many as being the first incarnation of the Earldom, but for the reasons stated elsewhere here, are often not counted amongst the Earls.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Earl_of_Arundel   (701 words)

  
 MONTGOMERY - MONTGOMERIE FAMILY GENEALOGY - Life is the Past Lane
The Norman Montgomery family ancestry was closely interwoven either by blood or marriage with the Duchy of Normandy.
Roger FitzHamon, Lord of Glamorgan, Corboil, Cruelly, and Thoringni, and Earl of Gloucester b.
**Roger de Montgomerie II was Seigneur de Montgomery, Earl Chicester, Vicomte de Hiemois, Earl of Shrewsbury; Regent of Normandy and England.
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 Montgomeryshire, WalesGenWeb Project
In the 11th century the Norman Roger de Montgomery, 1st earl of Shrewsbury, built his castle at Hendomen, northwest of the present town, and a small village developed under its walls.
In 1223 the English king Henry III built another castle at a new Montgomery, the present town, to which a royal charter was granted in 1227.
The area was under the rule of the marcher lordships (local rulers in Wales who were partly independent of the English crown) until 1536, when King Henry VIII created the county of Montgomeryshire and thus brought the area fully under the administration of the crown.
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 thePeerage.com - Ulf and others
     Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria and Huntingdon was the son of Siward Digera, Earl of Northumberland and Elfleda.
     Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury was styled as Earl of Chichester.
He was created 1st Earl of Arundel [England] in December 1067, receiving grants including one third of the county of Sussex, including the city of Chichester and the Castle of Arundel.
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 Normandy
Herleva married to Herluin, Vicomte of Contreville, and they had two sons: Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent; and Robert, Count of Mortain; both of whom were very close to their half brother, William the Conqueror; and both of whom were present at the Battle of Hastings.
Roger de Montgomery is shown on the Battle Abbey Roll and the Dives-sur-Mer List as having accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066.
While it cannot be proven, Roger de Montgomery may have been present at the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066.
www3.sympatico.ca /robert.sewell/normandy.html   (3163 words)

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