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- Hugh de Montfort (Hugh II) (died 1088 or after) was a Norman nobleman. He was Lord of Montfort-sur-Risle, Constable of Normandy and a companion of William the Conqueror. Hugh's father was killed in combat with Valkelin de Ferrières in 1045.
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Hugh de Montfort (Hugh II) (died 1088 or after) was a Norman nobleman. He was Lord of Montfort-sur-Risle, Constable of Normandy and a companion of William the Conqueror. Hugh's father was killed in combat with Valkelin de Ferrières in 1045.
Montfort-l’Amaury took its name from Amaury, or Amalric (d. c. 1053), the builder of the castle there, whose father had been invested with the lordship by Hugh Capet.
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Hugh III de Montfort, Lord of Montfort-sur-Risle, was an Anglo-Norman noble. Hugh was the son of Gilbert de Gant and Alice, Dame de Montfort-sur-Risle. He adopted the name and arms of his mother to inherit the lordship of Montfort-sur-Risle.
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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.When Hugh de Montfort Seigneur de Montfort-sur-Risle was born in 1075, in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England, his father, Gilbert de Gand, was 27 and his mother, Alice De Montfort, was 38. He married Adeline de Beaumont before 1120, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
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Jan 19, 2015 · Montfort, who called the January Parliament, was the leader of a political faction that sought major reform of the realm. Fed up with Henry's misrule, as they saw it, these barons had...
Simon de Montfort, later Earl of Leicester, (born c. 1208, Montfort, Ile-de-France, France—died Aug. 4, 1265, Evesham, Worcestershire, Eng.), The second son of Simon de Montfort, he gave up Montfort lands in France but revived the family claim to the English earldom of Leicester.
