Colonel Edward Montagu’s Regiment of Foot
Active | 1643 to 1645 |
Country | England |
Allegiance | Parliamentarian |
Conflicts | First Civil War |
Type | Foot |
Colonel | Edward Montagu |
Area Raised | Cambridgeshire |
Ely | |
Coat Colour | Red lined white |
Flag Colour | Blue? |
Flag Design | Unknown |
Field Armies | Manchester 1643-5 |
Parliamentarian regiment of foot of the Eastern Association fighting at Marston Moor and later joining the New Model Army
Service History
1643
- August: Montagu commissioned to raise 1000 foot in Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely
- October to November: Siege of Bolingbroke Castle?
- Quartered at Newport Pagnell
1644
- February: Repulsed from Hillesden House
- May: Siege of Lincoln
- May to July: Siege of York
- 2nd July: Battle of Marston Moor
- July: Siege of York
- July: Siege of Tickhill Castle?
- July to August: Siege of Sheffield Castle
- August: Siege of Welbeck Abbey
- August: Siege of Stavely House
- August: Siege of Bolsover Castle
- August: Siege of South Wingfield
- October: Second Battle of Newbury
- November: Standoff at Donnington
- Quartered at Newport Pagnell
1645
- January: Quartered at Henley upon Thames
- February: Mutiny over arrears of pay, which soon arrives
- March: Storm of Hillesden House
- April: Become Colonel Edward Montagu’s Regiment of Foot of the New Model Army
Notes
Described as professed Independents entire the regiment were soundly in Cromwell's camp, apparently disregarding orders from their superior officer, the Presbyterian Major General Laurence Crawford.
Coats and Flags
Red coats lined white 1)2). When Montagu's joined the New Model Army they were issued with 10 new flags in blue. Whether they previously carried blue flags is unknown, but a possibility.
Notable Officers
A list of the regiment’s officers is shown in Laurence Spring’s Regiments of the Eastern Association3)
Colonel Edward Montagu
Edward Montagu, later Earl of Sandwich, not to be confused with Edward Montagu, the Earl of Manchester
Strength
See Also
Links
Montagu's are re-enacted by Montagu's Regiment of the English Civil War Society.