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Bertrade. Simon I of Montfort or Simon de Montfort ( c. 1025 – 25 September 1087) was a French nobleman. He was born in Montfort l'Amaury, near Paris, and became its lord. He was the son of Amaury I de Montfort [1] and Bertrade. At his death he was buried about 20 miles (32 km) away in Épernon, because it was the site of the fortress he was ...
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Feb 17, 2023 · Simon de Montfort (c. 1170–1218). Le croisé, son lignage et son temps, ed. Martin Aurell, Gregory Lippiatt and Laurent Macé (Histoires de famille. La Parenté au Moyen Age 21). Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. 286. ISBN 978 2 503 58224 5.
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De Montfort University. De Montfort University Leicester ( DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was taken from Simon de Montfort, a 13th-century Earl of Leicester .
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Montfort was a younger son of Alix de Montmorency and Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, a French nobleman, and leader of a Crusade against the Cathars in south-west France. His paternal grandmother was Amicia de Beaumont, the senior co-heiress to the Earldom of Leicester and a large estate owned by her brother Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl o...
Early life
As a younger son, Simon de Montfort attracted little public attention during his youth, and the date of his birth remains unknown. He is first mentioned when his mother made a grant to him in 1217. As a boy, Montfort accompanied his parents during his father's campaigns against the Cathars. He was with his mother at the Siege of Toulouse in 1218, where his father died after being struck on the head by a stone pitched by a mangonel. In addition to Amaury, Simon had another older brother, Guy,...
Royal marriage
In January 1238, Montfort married Eleanor of England, daughter of King John and Isabella of Angoulême and sister of King Henry III. While this marriage took place with the king's approval, the act itself was performed secretly and without consulting the great barons, as a marriage of such importance warranted. Eleanor had previously been married to William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and she had sworn a vow of perpetual chastityupon his death, when she was sixteen, which she broke by marry...
Expulsion of Jews from Leicester
As Earl of Leicester, Montfort expelled the small Jewishcommunity from Leicester city in 1231, banishing them "in my time or in the time of any of my heirs to the end of the world". He justified his action as being "for the good of my soul, and for the souls of my ancestors and successors". His parents had shown a similar hostility to Jews in France, where his father was known for his bigoted Christianity, and his mother had given the Jews of Toulouse a choice of conversion, expulsion or deat...
Following Montfort's death, he became the focus of an unofficial popular miracle cult, centred on his grave in Evesham Abbey. It was practised in secret for at least two years because of an official ban, but lasted until c.1280, with pilgrims continuing to visit his grave for some years thereafter. The so-called Evesham "miracle book" documents som...
Simon de Montfort and Eleanor of England had seven children, many of whom were notable in their own right:[citation needed] 1. Henry de Montfort(November 1238–1265) 2. Simon de Montfort the Younger(April 1240–1271) 3. Amaury de Montfort(1242/3–1300) 4. Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola(1244–1288) 5. Joanna de Montfort (born and died in Bordeaux betwee...
Beach, Chandler B., ed. (1914). "Montfort, Simon de" . The New Student's Reference Work . Vol. 3. Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co.Mar 20, 2014 · The period of baronial reform and rebellion 1258–67 is ‘one of the most important but least understood eras in English history’ (p. ix). In 1258, a group of barons led by Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, seized the reins of government from Henry III.
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39 For the cult, see ‘Miracula Simonis de Montfort’, in Chronicle of William de Rishanger, ed. Halliwell, 67–110, and Valente, C., ‘ Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and the Utility of Sanctity in Thirteenth-Century England ’, Journal of Medieval History, 21 (1995), 27 – 49 CrossRef Google Scholar.
Jan 12, 2022 · Elizabeth Tingle is Professor of History at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She has written extensively on the Wars of Religion and the Catholic Reformation in France, and her latest books are Sacred Journeys: Long Distance Pilgrimage in North-Western Europe in the Counter Reformation, (Medieval Institute Press/De Gruyter, 2020) and together with Philip Booth eds.,
