_Madame de Montespan_, wife of the marquis. She supplanted La Vallière in the base love of Louis XIV. La Vallière loved the _man_, Montespan the _king_. She had wit to warm but not to burn, energy which passed for feeling, a head to check her heart, and not too much principle for a French court. Mde. de Montespan was the _protégée_ of the Duke de Lauzun, who used her as a stepping-stone to wealth; but when in favor, she kicked down the ladder by which she had climbed to power. However, Lauzun had his revenge; and when La Vallière took the veil, Mde. de Montespan was banished from the court.--Lord E. L. B. Lytton, _The Duchess de la Vallière_ (1836). =Montfauçon= (_The Lady Calista of_), attendant of Queen Berengaria.--Sir. W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). =Mont-Fitchet= (_Sir Conrade_), a preceptor of the Knights Templar.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). =Montfort= (_De_), the hero and title of a tragedy, intended to depict the passion of hate, by Joanna Baillie (1798). The object of De Montfort’s hatred is Rezenvelt, and his passion drives him on to murder. ⁂ De Montfort was probably the suggestive inspiration of Byron’s _Manfred_ (1817). =Montgomery= (_Mr._), Lord Godolphin, lord high treasurer of England in the reign of Queen Anne. The queen called herself “Mrs. Morley,” and Sarah Jennings, duchess of Marlborough, was “Mrs. Freeman.” =Monthermer= (_Guy_), a nobleman, and the pursuivant of King Henry II.--Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). =Montjoie=, chief herald of France.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.). =Montorio=, the hero of a novel, who persuaded his “brother’s sons” to murder their father by working on their fears, and urging on them the doctrine of fatalism. When the deed was committed, Montorio discovered that the young murderers were not his nephews, but his own sons.--Rev. C. R. Maturin, _Fatal Revenge_ (1807). =Montreal d’Albano=, called “Fra Moriale,” knight of St. John of Jerusalem, and captain of the Grand Company in the fourteenth century, when sentenced to death by Rienzi, summoned his judge to follow him within the month. Rienzi was killed by the fickle mob within the stated period. (See SUMMONS TO DEATH.) =Montreville= (_Mde. Adela_), or the Begum Mootee Mahul, called “the queen of Sheba.”--Sir W. Scott, _The Surgeon’s Daughter_ (time, George II.). =Montrose= (_The duke of_), commander-in-chief of the king’s army.--Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_, xxxii. (time, George I.). _Montrose_ (_The Marquis of_).--Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth). _Montrose_ (_James Grahame, earl of_), the king’s lieutenant in Scotland. He appears first disguised as Anderson, servant of the earl of Menteith.--Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.). =Monuments= (_The_), Poor family in London. _Father_, a convict who gets out of prison on a ticket-of-leave. _Mother_, Hester, an honest washerwoman, afterwards in almshouse, and blind.