{{Short description|Archbishop of York in 1628}} {{For|the Anglican bishop of Quebec, Canada|George Mountain (bishop)}} {{Use British English|date=April 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend | name = George Montaigne | honorific-suffix = | archbishop_of = Archbishop of York | image = GeorgeMountain.jpg | imagesize = 200px | alt = | caption = George Montaigne during his time as Bishop of London. | province = | diocese = York | see = | church = Church of England | enthroned = July 1628 | ended = 24 October 1628 | predecessor = Tobias Matthew | successor = Samuel Harsnett | ordination = 28 June 1593 | ordained_by = Richard Howland | consecration = 14 December 1617 | consecrated_by = George Abbot | other_post = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1569 | birth_place = Cawood, Yorkshire | death_date = 24 October 1628 | death_place = London | buried = All Saints' Church, Cawood | nationality = English | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | alma_mater = | signature = }}{{Ordination | ordained deacon by = Richard Howland | date of diaconal ordination = 28 June 1593 | place of diaconal ordination = Peterborough | ordained priest by = Richard Howland | date of priestly ordination = 28 June 1593 | place of priestly ordination = Peterborough | consecrated by = George Abbot | co-consecrators = Marco Antonio de Dominis<br />John King<br />Lancelot Andrewes<br />John Buckeridge<br />John Overall | date of consecration = 14 December 1617 | place of consecration = Lambeth | bishop 1 = | consecration date 1 = | sources = <ref>{{cite book|author=Robert David Redmile|title=The Apostolic Succession and the Catholic Episcopate in the Christian Episcopal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t4YU1_QZsO8C&pg=PA181|date=September 2006|publisher=Xulon Press|isbn=978-1-60034-516-6|page=181}}</ref> }}
'''George Montaigne''' (or '''Mountain'''; 1569 – 24 October 1628) was an English bishop.
==Life== Montaigne was born in 1569 at Cawood, Yorkshire.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Montaigne, George|last=Bradley|first=E. B.|volume=38}}</ref> He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, matriculating at Michaelmas 1586, graduating B.A. 1590, M.A. 1593, B.D. 1602, D.D. 1607, and holding a fellowship at Queens' 1592–1611. He was ordained deacon and priest at Peterborough in 1593.<ref>{{acad|id=MNTN586G|name=Montaigne, George}}</ref>
In 1597 he was chaplain to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, on his expedition against Cádiz. He became rector of Great Cressingham in 1602. He was Gresham College Professor of Divinity in 1607, and in 1608 Master of the Savoy and chaplain to James VI and I.<ref name="DNB"/>
He was Dean of Westminster in 1610. He was appointed Bishop of Lincoln in 1617 and was consecrated on 14 December that year by Archbishop George Abbot, and co-consecrated by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Split Marco Antonio de Dominis. He was appointed Lord High Almoner in 1619, Bishop of London in 1621 and Bishop of Durham in 1627.<ref name ="DNB"/>
When in 1628 the archbishopric of York fell vacant by the death of Tobias Matthew, Montaigne is said to have secured the nomination by remarking to Charles I, "Hadst thou faith as a grain of mustard seed, thou wouldst say unto this ''mountain'', be removed into that ''sea'' [see]" ({{Bibleverse|Matthew|17:20|KJV}}). He was duly elected to the archbishopric on 1 July, but died in London on 24 October 1628, and was buried in Cawood Church.<ref name ="DNB"/>
He was one of the Arminian group of bishops who arose in opposition to the general Calvinism that prevailed in the Church of England in the early seventeenth century. One manifestation of his views were prosecutions in his London diocese for the disrespectful wearing of hats in services.<ref>{{cite book|last=Corns|first=Thomas N.|date=2003|title=A Companion to Milton|page=115}}</ref>
==Arms== {{Infobox COA wide |escutcheon = Barry lozengy Or and Azure on a chief Gules three crosslets of the first.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/wiki/George_Montaigne |title=George Montaigne |accessdate=31 May 2026 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref> |notes = While serving as a bishop Montaigne's arms would be displayed impaled with the arms of the diocese and topped by a mitre.}}
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