Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery
Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of the Ards, (1597–1642) was an Irish aristocrat who supported the Royalist cause in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Biography
Montgomery was born in 1597 son of Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of the Ards, Ireland,[1] and Jane, eldest daughter of William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Secretary of State for Scotland. Montgomery was a colonel in the Royalist army during the Irish Rebellion of 1641.[2] He died on 15 November 1642.[1]
Family
Montgomery married Jean Alexander, and had four children: Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander, James Montgomery, Elizabeth Montgomery and Henry Montgomery.[3]
Hugh Montgomery's widow, Lady Jean Alexander, remarried after his death to Major-General Robert Monro, and died in the autumn of 1670.[1]
Notes
- 1 2 3 Rogers 1877, pp. 250.
- ↑ Burke 1866, p. 378.
- ↑ Rogers 1877, pp. 249–251.
References
- Burke, Sir Bernard (1866), A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Harrison, p. 378
- Rogers, Charles (1877), Memorials of the Earl of Sterling and of the house of Alexander, Edinburgh: W. Paterson, pp. 249–251