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	Arms of Boveney MONTAGUES OF BOVENEY (1505-1638) For better or worse, George Wm. Montague's History and Genealogy of Peter Montague (hereinafter HGPM), published in 1894, is the de facto authority on the pre-colonial ancestry of Peter Montague of Boveney, England. This authority has remained mostly unchallenged these past 110 years and is overdue for a review of some of its assumptions and conclusions. For example, HGPM presents a careful, detailed review of the lineage of Drogo de Montagu, the forefather of all English Montagues-famous, royal, and commoner alike. Against this backdrop, HGPM hypothesizes-but does not prove-that the "pedigree [of the Montagues of Boveney] is clear and perfect from the American branch (1634) back to A.D. 1500 and lacks (from there) two generations, possibly three, to make a perfect record back to the conquest of England, A.D. 1066." Over the past ten decades, this hypothesis quietly became a "well-known" fact as those missing "two generations, possibly three" got found. Understandably, few people are quick to find fault with descent from royal lineage.