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Birth:          ABT 1055 St.-Germain-de-Montgomery, Normandy
Death:          31 Jul 1098 Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Burial:         17 Aug 1098 Shrewsbury Abbey, Shropshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I13124
Shrewsbury, Earldom of: His [Roger, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury's] son, the 2nd Earl of 
Shrewsbury (or Shropshire) of the 1074 creation, was killed by a missile launched from 
a Norse (or conceivably Irish) raiding party off the Anglesey coast while riding along 
the forshore on that island trying to fend them off. He was accounted gentle by the 
English and Normans but a Hammer by the Welsh. Under the systerm then prevailing 
the Earldom passed to an elder brother, Robert de Belleme, who constructed 
Bridgnorth Castle and continued the family policy of harrying the Welsh. He rebelled 
against Henry I and in 1102 was deprived of the Earldom of Shrewsbury/Shropshire, 
together with his English and Welsh estates. [Burke's Peerage, p. 2604]

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EARLDOM OF ARUNDEL (II) 1094

EARLDOM OF SHREWSBURY (II) 1094

HUGH (DE MONTGOMERY), EARL OF SHREWSBURY, 3rd but 2nd surviving son by 
1st wife, was born probably between 1053 and 1059 (b). In December 1079 he was at 
the Castle of Bures when his mother was murdered there and he pursued the 
murderers in vain. In the summer of 1080 at Caen he joined his brothers in attesting 
his father's charter for Troarn for the soul of their mother. Before his father's death he 
was already recognised as his heir in England. In 1092 he was at the siege of Breval 
and with other magnates he made peace between William de Bréteuil and Ascelin 
Goel. On Roger's death in 1094 he succeeded him as EARL OF SHROPSHIRE or 
SHREWSBURY and to all his lands in England and Wales. In that year the Welsh rose 
in arms. Hugh fought them with some success in North Wales, but in 1095 they took 
Montgomery and slaughtered the garrison. Hugh took part in the conspiracy against 
William II in 1095, but he bought the King's favour for £3,000. In 1098 with the Earl of 
Chester he invaded and conquered Anglesey, treating the Welsh with great cruelty. 
When a Norwegian fleet appeared off the coast of North Wales, the 2 Earls met at 
Diganwy (co. Carnarvon) and crossed to Anglesey. As the fleet approached the land, 
the Earl rode along the shore (a) and was struck by an arrow shot, or a javelin thrown, 
from a ship and fell dying into the sea (b2). Thus he died unmarried about 31 July 
1098 and was buried about 17 August at Shrewsbury Abbey.[d] [Complete Peerage 
XI:688-9, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(b) He may or may not have been the 3rd child. According to a Welsh annalist, he was 
fighting in Wales in 1072; but this seems impossibly early. [Note: I think that many of 
Roger II's children were born earlier than CP states.]

(a) According to Orderic, he was spurring his horse along the shore and concentrating 
his men, lest they be invaded while they were scattered; but according to Gerald of 
Wales, he rode his horse right into the sea, to meet the enemy, whom Gerald calles 
pirates from the Orkney Isles.

(b2) According to Florence of Worcester, he was killed by an arrow shot by King 
Magnus himself; according to Gerald, the arrow shot by Magnus, "navium princeps" 
pierced Hugh's right eye; but Orderic says that he was killed with a 'missile' by 
Magnus, br. of the King of the Norwegians; or (in a later passage) a 'missile' aimed by 
a barbarous Norwegian. William of Malmesbury says that Hugh was struck by an iron 
'Hastile'; and the Annals of Margam say by a 'hasta'. The A.S. Chron. sub 1098 merely 
says that Hugh was killed in Anglesey by Vikings; and Henry of Huntingdon that he 
was killed by the Irish. Gerald relates that when Magnus say Hugh fall from his hourse 
he exclaimed "Leit loupe!" (Let him Leap!).

[d] The Normans and English long sought for his corpse, drawn away by the tide, and 
found it at length; and on the 17th day after his death bore it to Shrewsbury, where it 
was buried in the abbey amid great mourning. He was the only one of the sons of 
Mabel who was gentle and amiable. This seems hardly compatible with the alleged 
cruelties to the Welsh in Anglesey.

Note: Hugh died unmarried, but I have a son, undoubtedly illegitimate, by him.

Parents
DE MONTGOMERY Roger II (ABT 1024 - 27 Jul 1094)
TALVAS (DE ALENCON) Mabel (ABT 1024 - 2 Dec 1079)

Siblings
DE MONTGOMERY Maude (Matilda) (ABT 1041 - ABT 1085)
DE BELLEME (DE ALENCON) (MONTGOMERY) Robert II "Talvas" (ABT 1050 - 8 May 1131)
MONTGOMERY Roger "the Poitevin" (ABT 1054 - 1123)
DE MONTGOMERY Hugh (ABT 1055 - 31 Jul 1098)
DE MONTGOMERY Sibyl (ABT 1058 - 1107)
DE MONTGOMERY Arnulph (ABT 1066 - ABT 1120)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
MONTGOMERY Ralph (ABT 1073 - AFT 1121)

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