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SALISBURY, See also:THOMAS DE MONTACUTE, 4TH See also:EARL OF (1388-1428) , was son of See also:John, the third earl, who was executed in 1400 as a supporter of See also:Richard II. Thomas was granted See also:part of his See also:father's estates and summoned to See also:parliament in 1409, though not fully restored till 1421. He was See also:present throughout the See also:campaign of See also:Agincourt in 1415, and at the See also:naval engagement before See also:Harfleur in 1416. In the expedition of 1417-18 he served with increasing distinction, and especially at the See also:siege of See also:Rouen. During the See also:spring of 1419 he held an See also:independent command, capturing See also:Fecamp, See also:Honfleur and other towns, was appointed See also:lieutenant-See also:general of See also:Normandy, and created earl of See also:Perche. In 1420 he was in See also:chief command in See also:Maine, and defeated the Marechal de Rieux near Le Mans. When See also:Henry V. went See also:home next See also:year Salisbury remained in See also:France as the chief lieutenant of Thomas, See also:duke of See also:Clarence. The duke, through his own rashness, was defeated at Bauge on the 21st of See also:March 1421. Salisbury came up with the archers too See also:late to retrieve the See also:day,but recovered the bodies of the dead, and by a skilful See also:retreat averted further disaster. He soon gathered a fresh force, and in See also:June was able to See also:report to the See also:king " this part of your See also:land stood in See also:good See also:plight never so well as now." (Foedera, x. 131). Salisbury's success in Maine marked him out as John of See also:Bedford's chief lieutenant in the See also:war after Henry's See also:death.

In 1423 he was appointed See also:

governor of See also:Champagne, and by his dash and vigour secured one of the chief victories of the war at Cravant on the 3oth of See also:July. Subsequent operations completed the See also:conquest of Champagne, and See also:left Salisbury See also:free to join Bedford at See also:Verneuil. There on the 17th of See also:August, 1424, it was his " See also:judgment and valour " that won the day. During the next three years Salisbury was employed on the See also:Norman border and in Maine. After a year's visit to See also:England he returned to the chief command in the See also:field in July, 1428. Against the judgment of Bedford he determined to make See also:Orleans his See also:principal See also:objective, and began the siege on the 12th of See also:October. Prosecuting it with his wonted vigour he stormed Tourelles, the See also:castle which protected the See also:southern end of the See also:bridge across the See also:Loire, on the 24th of October. Three days later whilst See also:surveying the See also:city from a window in Tourelles he was wounded by a See also:cannon-shot, and died on the 3rd of See also:November 1428. Salisbury was the most skilful soldier on the See also:English See also:side after the death of Henry V. Though employed on See also:diplomatic See also:missions both by Henry V. and Bedford, he took no part in politics See also:save for a momentary support of See also:Humphrey, duke of See also:Gloucester, during his visit to England in 1427-1428. He was a See also:patron of John See also:Lydgate, who presented to him his See also:book The See also:Pilgrim (now Harley MS. 4826, with a See also:miniature of Salisbury, engraved in See also:Strutt's See also:Regal Antiquities).

By his first wife Eleanor Holand, daughter of Thomas, earl of See also:

Kent, Salisbury. had an only daughter Alice, in her right earl of Salisbury, who married Richard See also:Neville, and was See also:mother of See also:Warwick the King-maker. His second wife Alice was See also:grand-daughter of See also:Geoffrey See also:Chaucer, and after his death married See also:William de la See also:Pole, duke of See also:Suffolk. The chief accounts of Salisbury's See also:campaigns are to be found in the Gesta Henrici Quinti, edited by B. See also:Williams for the Eng. Hist. See also:Soc. (See also:London, 185o) in the Vita Henrici Quinti (erroneously attributed to Thomas of See also:Elmham), edited by T. See also:Hearne (See also:Oxford, 1727) ; the Chronique of E. de See also:Monstrelet, edited by L. D. d'Arcq (See also:Paris, 1857–1862) ; the Chroniques of Jehan de See also:Waurin, edited by W. and E. L. C. P.

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Hardy (London, 1864–1891); and the Chronique de la Pucelle of G. Cousinot, edited by Vallet de Viriville (Paris, 1859). For See also:modern accounts see See also:Sir J. H. See also:Ramsay, See also:Lancaster and See also:York (Oxford, 1892) ; and C. See also:Oman, See also:Political See also:History of England, 1377–1485 (London, 1906). (C. L.

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