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Montfort-l'Amaury (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃fɔʁ lamoʁi]) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It is located 20 km (12 mi) north of Rambouillet. The name comes from Amaury I de Montfort, the first seigneur (lord) of Montfort.
Position de Montfort-l’Amaury dans les Yvelines. La commune de Montfort-l'Amaury, située à 38 km à l'ouest de Paris et 18 km au nord de Rambouillet, se situe au sud de la plaine qui porte son nom, dans une zone de coteaux au nord du massif forestier de Rambouillet.
This list is about the Lords, counts and dukes who ruled over Montfort-l'Amaury. Around ten years before 1000 AD, Robert the Pious commissioned Guillaume de Hainaut with protecting the royal domain around Paris from the counts of Blois to the west.
Amaury de Montfort, Lord of Montfort-l'Amaury, (1192 [1] – 1241) was the son of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and Alix de Montmorency, [2] and the older brother of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.
Amaury I de Montfort (died c. 1053 [1]) was Lord of Montfort, son of Guillaume de Montfort of Hainaut, the first Lord of Montfort. The castle of Montfort l'Amaury , of which he started the construction, was completed by his son Simon I de Montfort , who succeeded him as Lord of Montfort.
The Château de Groussay is located in the town of Montfort-l'Amaury, in the Department of Yvelines, west of Paris, in France. The Château was built in 1815 by the duchesse de Charest, a daughter of Louise Elisabeth de Croÿ-Havré, marquise de Tourzel , the governess of the royal enfants de France of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette .
The history of Montfort l’Amaury took shape in the High Middle Ages when the earldom of Iveline was given to Robert le Pieux (976-1031). In order to ensure the defence of his property, the young king asked William of Hainault to build two strongholds: one near Epernon and the second at Montfort.
