page_title: Clan Montgomery
section_title: 17th century & Civil War
hierarchical_section_title: Clan Montgomery / History / 17th century & Civil War
caption_attribution_description: English: The Signature of the Earl of Eglintoun, a Montgomerie - 1640s
context_page_description: Clan Montgomery is a Lowland Scottish clan.
context_section_description: When the second Earl of Eglintoun, chief of Clan Montgomery was released after the battle of Langside he had tried to secure the safety and toleration of Catholics in the wake of the Reformation.  Ironically his daughter Lady Margaret married Robert Seton of the Clan Seton, the 1st Earl of Winton who was a loyal Covenanter during the Civil War and did not accept the religious policies of Charles I of England. He did however accept Charles II of England and was made a colonel of the King's Lifeguard of Cavalry. He was later captured at Dumbarton and was not released unto after the restoration in 1660. 
  Their son, Alexander Seton took his mother's maiden name of Montgomery and became the 6th Earl of Eglintoun. He was a Protestant supporter of King Charles II. He was imprisoned by General Monck for his Royalist sympathies in 1659.
  In 1628 another branch of the Scottish Montgomeries settled in the north of County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland and 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein came from this line.
  In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Montgomeries served abroad in Continental armies, including those of Sweden, France, Kingdom of Denmark, Russia and Brandenburg-Prussian Army as mercenaries.
caption: The signature of the Earl of Eglintoun in 1642.
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