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4 days ago · Simon de Montfort, Henry’s brother-in-law and chief reformer, returned to his native France. The resumption of royal authority suffered a major set-back in the early summer of 1263 when various members of the Lord Edward’s household intrigued with Montfort and encouraged him to return to England.
3 days ago · The years of revolution, rebellion and civil war after 1258 are dominated by Henry’s brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester. He spearheaded the revolution of 1258, led the resistance to the king’s recovery of power in 1261, and masterminded the uprising that ended with the re-imposition of the Provisions of Oxford in 1263.
5 days ago · “The warden of the castle, Adam de Gurdon by name, came out to meet them, slew many of them with the sword and putting many others to flight, among whom was the captain, caused them to be drowned.” This little-known battle was overtaken by the slaughter at Evesham, just three days later, where Simon de Montfort and his army were wiped out.
1 day ago · Simon de Monfort's greatest triumph was the victory against superior numbers at the Battle of Muret in 1213 — a battle in which de Montfort's much smaller force, composed entirely of cavalry, decisively defeated the much-larger (by some estimates 5-10 times larger) and combined-force allied armies of Raymond of Toulouse, his Occitan allies ...
4 days ago · Although Morris acknowledges in his preface the debt of his work to Maddicott's Simon de Montfort and Crouch's William the Marshal, for example, he does not illuminate the longer-term historiographical debt it owes first to K. B. McFarlane, and further back to the work of Lewis Namier. This would have been useful in enabling the reader to make ...
3 days ago · Son of Richard Earl of Cornwall, his wavering loyalties during the second barons war eventually resulted in his assassination in 1271 by Simon de Montfort the Younger and Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola.
5 days ago · The abbot of Thorney was among the spiritual peers summoned to Simon de Montfort's Parliament of 1264-5 and continued to be so summoned until the Dissolution. At Michaelmas 1322 Abbot William Clopton excused himself from attending Parliament on the ground of illness, appointing two proxies, and on 8 March 1323 he died.
