Charles Montagu (of Boughton)

Sir Charles Montagu (c. 1564 – 11 September 1625) of Cranbrook Hall[2] in the parish of Barking, Essex, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1614 to 1625.

Montagu was one of the eight sons of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton House in Northamptonshire by his wife Elizabeth Harington, a daughter of James Harington of Exton, Rutland and Lucy Sidney.

[7] Montagu died at the age of 61 and was buried in St Margaret's Church, Barking where survives his mural monument depicting a small effigy of Sir Charles fully armed, sitting in a military tent during a campaign.

[8][9] Inscribed as follows: Montagu married first Lettice, daughter of Henry Clifford of Keystone, Hunts,[11] and secondly, he married Mary Whitmore, a daughter of William Whitmore Esq.

(d.1593[citation needed]), Haberdasher, an Alderman of London, often erroneously stated to have been Sir William Whitmore,[12] by whom he had three daughters and co-heiresses, including:[3]

Painting of Sir Charles Montagu of Cranbrook. His quartered arms are impaled with those of his first wife Lettice, daughter of Henry Clifford of Keystone
Mural monument to Sir Charles Montagu St Margaret's Church, Barking, Essex. His quartered arms at top impale Vert fretty or (Whitmore, for his wife)
Arms of Sir Charles Montagu, as seen on his monument, Montagu of Boughton (Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, differenced by a bordure sable [ 1 ] ) quartering Monthermer