George Montgomery

Płyta pamiątkowa, jaką George Montgomery ufundował swojej matce chrzestnej, Alice Fry. Po prawej widać na niej herb rodziny Montgomery, skrzyżowane lancę i miecz

George Montgomery (ur. 1562?, zm. 1621) – szkocki duchowny anglikański.

Życiorys

George Montgomery urodził się w North Ayrshire. Data jego narodzin jest niepewna. Jedni ustalają ją na rok 1562, inni na dopiero rok 1569[1]. Był drugim synem Adama Montgomery'ego[1], piątego lairda (dziedzica) Braidstane[1] i nieznanej z imienia kobiety, córki Johna Montgomery'ego, czwartego lairda Hazlehead[1]. Na krótko przed tym, jak tron Anglii objął Jakub I Stuart (nazywany w Szkocji Jakubem VI), George Montgomery został rektorem Chedsey w hrabstwie Somerset[1]. Wtedy ożenił się po raz pierwszy z Susan Steynings[1]. Miał z nią córkę o imieniu Jane[1]. Król mianował go też dziekanem Norwich[1]. Stanowisko to zajmował od 1603 do 1614 roku[1]. Po śmierci pierwszej żony w 1614 roku ożenił się po raz drugi z Elizabeth Brabazon. George Montgomery zmarł w Londynie w 1620 lun 1621 roku. Jego nagrobek znajduje się w kościele w Ardbraccan[2]. Zawiera on rzeźby przedstawiające biskupa, jego żonę i córkę[2].

Misja w Irlandii

W 1605 król mianował George'a Montgomery'ego biskupem diecezji Clogher, Derry i Raphoe w Ulsterze[1]. W ten sposób duchowny stał się pierwszym ewangelickim biskupem w Irlandii.

Bibliografia

Przypisy

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Henry A. Jefferies: George Montgomery, First Protestant Bishop of Clogher (1605-1621) (ang.). jstor.org. [dostęp 2016-10-20].
  2. ↑ a b J. N. Brewer: The Beauties of Ireland: Being Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Biographical of Each County. London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1826, s. 190.

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Monumental brass in Washfield Church, Devon, to Alice Fry (1533-1605), a daughter of William Fry, lord of the manor of Yarty in Devon and wife of Phillip Steyning (1509-1589) of Holnicote, Somerset. It was erected by her son-in-law Bishop George Montgomery (1562–1621), whose first wife was Susan Steyning (d.1614). It displays two heraldic escutcheons. On the dexter side the arms of Steyning, a bat with wings elevated sable (of four quarters) impaling Fry Gules, three horses courant argent. On the sinister side are shown a version of the arms of Montgomery impaling Steyning.

The arms of Montgomery as shown are: A lance and a sword saltire-wise between in chief three fleurs-de-lys and in base three annulets stoned. This is an un-heraldic mixture of the heraldic device of the lance and a sword saltire-wise adopted by the soldier Sir James Montgomerie (b.1600) (2nd son of Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Viscount Montgomerie of the Great Ards) "to denote his roles as a justice in peace and a commander in war", and placed over the entrance door of his Irish seat of Rosemount, County Down, (The Montgomery Manuscripts, Belfast, 1830, p.159) together with above: the arms of Montgomerie: Azure, three fleurs-de-lys or and below the arms of Eglinton (often quartered by Montgomerie): Gules, three annulets or stoned azure

Alice Fry's niece was Bridget Fry, wife of Henry Worth (1537-1606), lord of the manor of Worth, in the parish of Washfield, Devon. Alice Fry survived her husband by 16 years and died at Worth, hence the location of the brass. See Hancock, Frederick, The Parish of Selworthy in the County of Somerset, Taunton, 1897, pp.128-132, concerning the history of Holnicote and the Steyning family. The verse, composed by Bishop Montgomery himself (Hancock, pp.129-30), is as follows:

Alice daughter unto Will'm Frye and Phillip Steyning's wyfe,
(Both squiers) with her husband led a long and lovinge lyfe,
Nyne sonns and daughters five she bare & then as turtle true,
(He dying first) she lyved sole and would not choose anew.
Birth, beauty, personage, good grace, court breeding, gravitye,
Chast love, trueth, virtue, constant faith, and sincere piety,
A lyfe made her belov'd and blest yea dead though envye burst,
And malice selfe can speake but well if they would speake ye worst,
Agde seaventie-two she yeilded heere her body to the dust,
Her soule into her Saviour's hands in whom was all her trust;
By Whom in sorrow, sicknes, health, lyfe, death she still was blest,
With whom she now in heavenly joy hath everlastinge rest.
Her birth-place Yarty was, her lyfe in Holnecot she led;
In Worth amongst her deerest frends she made her fatall bed.
Anew deere mother, we must part although wee loved deerly
Yet spyte of death lyfe once agayne I hope shall joyne us neerely.
And for thy love whilst thou didst live I vow though dead thou lye,
Thy sonne Montgomerie's love to thee & thine shall never dye.
Obiit 8o Aug: 1605o, aetatis suae 72o.[1] Georgius Montgomerius Gener Posuit.[2]