de Monte Acuto, Drogo 1a 2a

Birth Name de Monte Acuto, Drogo
Gender male
Age at Death 50 years

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1040 Coutances, Normandie, France   1
Death 1090 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   1

Age: 50y

Burial   St. Frideswide Churchyard, Oxford, City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Burial 3a

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father de Mortaigne, Geoffreyabout 10051051-12-15
Mother de Mortaigne, Hermengardeabout 1005
         de Monte Acuto, Drogo 1040 1090
    Brother     de Monte Acuto, Ansger about 1042

Families

Family of de Monte Acuto, Drogo and

Unknown Partner ( * + ... )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Mortaigne, Ermendarge IIabout 1065
de Montagu, William I10701156

Source References

  1. LY2R-4FW FamilySearch.org
      • Source text:

        NAME: DROGO (OF MONTACUTE)
        This landowner is associated with 0 places before the Conquest; 20 after the Conquest. (Note that the same name is not necessarily the same person.)

        After the Conquest
        Tenant-in-chief in 1086:
        Tenants-in-chief held land directly from the Crown.

        Knowle [Park], Wincanton, Somerset
        Lord in 1086:
        The immediate lord over the peasants after the Conquest, who paid tax to the tenant-in-chief.

        Adber, Horethorne, Dorset / Somerset
        Beer, Colyton, Devon
        Bishopstone, Tintinhull, Somerset
        Cricket [Malherbie], Abdick, Somerset
        Curscombe, Silverton, Devon
        Donyatt, Abdick, Somerset
        Feniton, Silverton, Devon
        [Goose, North and South] Bradon, Abdick, Somerset
        [Higher and Lower] Nyland, Gillingham, Dorset
        Honiton, Axminster, Devon
        Knowle [Park], Wincanton, Somerset
        Shepton [Montague], Wincanton, Somerset
        [Stoney] Stoke, Wincanton, Somerset
        Sutton [Montis], Blachethorna, Somerset
        Thorne, Stone, Somerset
        Thurlbear, North Curry, Somerset
        Tintinhull, Tintinhull, Somerset
        Toller [Whelme], Beaminster, Dorset
        Womberford, Colyton, Devon
        Woolston, Bruton, Somerset

      • Citation:

        https://opendomesday.org/name/drogo-of-montacute/

  2. The Montague Lords of the Manor
      • Source text:

        Robert, Earl of Mortain, the favorite brother of William, Duke of Normandy. Drogo accompanied the expedition to England in 1066 in the immediate retinue of Robert, Earl of Mortain. Drogo died in 1125 in Somerset county. He married unknown.

        From the Domesday Book, 1086, The following Tenants in Chief have holdings in Somerset / Barons and their holdings: Drogo de Montacute. Knowle Park." His brother, Ansger, held Preston.

        His arms were Azure, a Griffin segreant (rampant with wings spread), or.

        Drogo obtained the grant of several Manors, particularly in the county of Somerset, in the west of England. The original castle or seat of Drogo was at Montacute, an eminence and parish in Tintinhull Hundred, Somersetshire, four miles south from Ilchester. Its ancient name appears to have been Logoresburg and was also called Bishopston. Here the Earl of Mortain built a castle and named it after his friend Drogo de Monte-acuto. (Cappers Topog. Dict.).

        Camden says of this place that "the Castle has been quite destroyed these many years and the stones carried off to build the Religious houses and other things, afterward on the very top of the hill was a Chapel made and consecrated to St. Michael, the arch and roof curiously built of hard stone and the ascent to it is around the, mountain up stone stairs for near half a mile."

        While this was the original home of the Montagues, the seat of their barony was at Shepton Montacute a villa at no great distance from Montacute. This parish contains the hamlets of upper and lower Shepton *, Knolle, and Stoney Stoke, and was held by Drogo de Monte-acuto and his direct descendants until the time of King Henry VIII. when Sir Thomas Montacute leaving no male issue, this estate was divided between three sisters.

        In Drogo's time, in demesne are two carucates, 8 servants, 8 Villanes (farmers), 5 cottagers, 3 ploughs, 2 mills, one not rated, the other pays seven shillings and sixpence. There are 30 acres of meadow, and wood ten furlongs long and four furlongs broad.

        Drogo de Monte-acute also held of Robert Earl of Moriton, the following Manors. The manor of Yarlinton. Sutton Montacute, a small parish six miles east from Ivelchester, lying in a fruitful woody vale under the south west brow of Cadbury castle, with other high hills toward the east. It contains thirty houses which compose a long street in the turnpike road from Ivelchester to Castle Cary.

        Thulbeer, (ancient name Torlaberie). Drogo held this manor from the Earl of Moriton and it descended through a long line of ancestry together with the manor of Chidzoy, to the unfortunate Edward, son of George Duke of Clarence.

        Drogo also held of the said Earl one hide of land in Montagud in this county. Reverend John Collinson says, "it is altogether probable that the Earl of Mortain if he had any other reason than that of a Latin definition---imposed on his demesnes at Bishopton (Logoresburg) the appelation of Montagud in compliment to this Drogo, his favorite and confidential friend." But waving this matter, we find the said Drogo-de-Monte-acuto in possession of these estates until his death, which took place about the latter end of the reign of King Henry I, about 1125. He was living in Somerset county, England at that time. Drogo was succeeded by his son and heir.

      • Citation:

        http://shissem.com/Hissem_Lords_of_the_Manor.html#Drogo%20De%20Monte-Acuto

  3. Drogo de Monte-Acuto, "Find A Grave Index"
      • Source text:

        Name Drogo de Monte-Acuto
        Alias de Montagu
        Death or Burial Place Oxford, City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
        Death or Burial Place (Original) Oxford, City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
        Cemetery St Frideswide Churchyard
        Event Type Burial
        Photograph Included N
        Note Contains Biography

        Drogo de Montagu (of Monte Acuto in Normandy) participated in the Conquest, and at the time of Domesday held lands in Somerset and Devon. Here is an entry from the Domesday Book:
        Drogo of Montacute [Drogo de Montagud] holds KNOWLE (Park). Alnoth held it before 1066; it paid tax for 1 1/2 hides. Land for 3 ploughs; as many there. 6 villagers, and 4 slaves with 1 cottager.
        Meadow, 15 acres; woodland 4 furlongs in length and 3 furlongs in width. 26 pigs.
        Formally 40s; value now £4.
        Drogo holds it from the King.
        From this land 1 hide of land has been taken away which was there before 1066. Thurstan son of Rolf holds it, & an Englishman from him. Value 20s.
        His brother Ansger also held lands in Somerset.

        Montague ancestors have been traced to the Mountains of Scandinavia as early as the fifth century. No one knows when or from where they came to Scandinavia, but it must have been several hundred years before.
        Drogo de Monte-Acuto was a descendant of the Northman Rollo the Dane from
        Scandanavia who settled Normandy. French spelling of his name was Drogo de Montagu. He preferred the Latin Drogo de Monte-Acuto which means Dragon of the Mountain Peak. He came to England with Robert Earl of Morton and his brother "William the Conquerer". With sixty thousand men and over three hundred ships they landed at Pevensey upon the coast of Sussex, late in September, 1066, and immediately burned and scuttled their ships that their only hope might lie in their courage and resolution, their only safety in victory. This marked the advent of the first Montague upon the shores of England, and as he marches on toward the plain near Hastings (where, upon the 14th of October, the battle of Hastings was fought and won), he bears the kite shaped shield of the Norman invador, its color is cerulean blue, and upon it is the full length figure of a Griffin, segreant (rampant with wings spread), and painted a
        bright golden hue. This was the original Coat of Arms of the Montagues in England. William having conquered England and ascended the throne his followers were rewarded with large grants of land. Both his favorite brother
        the Earl of Moriton and his trusty follower Drogo de Monte-Acuto received large possessions.

      • Citation:

        "Find A Grave Index," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV28-LSDK : 10 June 2020), de Montagu, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , <i>Find a Grave</i>, http://www.findagrave.com.

        https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV28-LSDK

        https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71242635/drogo-de_monte-acuto