William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, 4th Baron Montagu, King of Mann, KG was an English nobleman and commander in the English army during King Edward III's French campaigns in the Hundred Years War
"Conte de Salisbery, Will(ia)m", William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, KG, illustration from the Bruges Garter Book, c.1430. The arms of Monthermer (Or, an eagle displayed vert beaked and membered gules) shown quartered by Montagu on his tabard are apparently incorrect, as it was his younger brother John de Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (c. 1330 – c. 1390) who married the Monthermer heiress.
Monumental brass of Sir William Salisbury (d.1383), All Saints' parish church, Calbourne, Isle of Wight
Joan of Kent
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Joan, Countess of Kent suo jure, also known as the "Fair Maid of Kent", was mother of King Richard II of England, her son by her third husband, Edward the Black Prince, the eldest son and heir apparen
William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
…King's first cousin, was one of the knights admitted at the foundation of the Order of the Garter. In the early 1340s, Lord Salisbury was married to Joan of Kent, a first cousin of the King, and a princess of England. Both Lord Salisbury and his bride were of exactly the same age, and both were in their early…
Illustration of Joan in The Benefactors' Book of St Albans Abbey
Arundel Castle in Sussex, where Joan, her mother and siblings were placed under house arrest