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| Simon IV ' l' Amaury ' "le Macchabée" /DE MONTFORT 1st 5th Earl of Leicester 1 | |
| Burial: Haute-Bruyere Abbey near Montfort-l'Amaury, France |
| Occupation: Ruthless French Soldier |
| Education: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cousin/html/p323.htm#i19537 |
| Changed: 17 Feb 2005 |
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| Alice (Alix) DE MONTMORENCY (Wife) b. About 1176 in Montmorency, Val d'Oise, Ile-de-France, France
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 Amauri IV [VII] DE MONTFORT Duke of Narbonne b. 1191/93 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Simon V /DE MONTFORT 2nd 6th Earl of Leicester b. Ca 1200/1208 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France
- Amice de MONTFORT b. About 1213 in Coughton, Alcester, Warwickshire, England
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Re: Roberts David, in a 1991 magazine article [regrading theAlbigensian Crusade; source unknown] on file in compiler'sarchives: . . . "For nine months Raymond VI [de St.Gilles][q.v.] and Simon struggled over Toulouse, the mostimportant town in Longuedoc. Then one day in July [sic] 1218, astone flung blind froma trebuchet [a style of catapult] hitSimon in the head, killing him. Languedocians still delight inthe knowledge that the machine was loaded by women."Of Simon's brutality it is noted: "At Bram, SImon took a hundredhostages, cut off their noses and uppen lips, and blinded allbut one, who led the pitiful procession to the castle of Cabaret[reminiscent of 'the Bulgar-slayer,' who did likewise with manymore prisoners - q.v.].---------On Leicester, Earldom of [Burke's Peerage, p. 1671]:The 4th [Beaumont] Earl, who was also the fourth named Robert,accompanied Richard I on the Third Crusade but accomplished asmooth transfer of loyalty to John on the latter's succession in1199. On his death without issue in 1204 the elder of his twosisters and coheirs, Amice, began calling herself Countess ofLeicester. Her first husband was Simon de Montfort (roughlyhalfway between Paris and Chartres) and Rochefort, and her sonby him, another Simon de Montfort, was being regarded as Earl ofLeicester by the years 1205 or 1206, shortly after the death ofhis maternal uncle [Robert de Beaumont], the 4th Earl ofwhatever creation had occurred in or about 1102. The new deMontfort Earl led the victorious crusade against the Albigensianheretics in Southern France and carved out for himself asubstantial territory in the Toulouse-Carcassonne area, hanging,burning and in once case entombing down a well his opponents ashe went and arrogating to himself the titles of the moreimportant heretics, such as Duke of Narbonne, Marquis ofProvence, Count of Toulouse and Vicomte of Albi. He was killedin 1218 while besieging Toulouse, hit by a well-aimed stonelaunched from a mangonel within the city.-------------------------------------------------------The first of this family that settled in England was Simon deMontfort, surnamed the Bald, great grandson of Almaric, anillegitimate son of Robert,* King of France. Which Simon havingm. Amicia, one of the two sisters and co-heirs of Robert deBellemont, or Beaumont, surnamed Fitz-Parnel, 4th and last Earlof Leicester of that family, obtained a grant of the Earldom ofLeicester from King John, with a confirmation of the Stewardshipof England, which he acquired by the possession of the honour ofHinkley, a portion of the immense fortune of his wife. Butnotwithstanding these marks of royal favour, the earl, within abrief period, revolted from the King of England to the King ofFrance, for which act of treason the Earldom of Leicester wastransferred to Ranulph, Earl of Chester, the honours of Hinkleyseized upon by the crown, and de Montfort himself banished therealm. Soon after this (1209), we find him under the title ofEarl of Montfort, general of the crusade against the Albigenses,and in nine years subsequently a leader in the besieging arms ofLewis, King of France, before the walls of Toulouse where he wasslain by a slinger from the battlements. His lordship had twosons by the co-heiress of Beaumont, namely, Almaric and Simon.*Thus, Robert, King of France.Almaric, who had the town of Montfort by gift of his royalfather and thence assumed that surname.Simon de Montfort.Almaric, Earl of Monfort, father of Simon, [the subject of thissketch].[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 376,Montfort, Earls of Leicester]**********note: it was Simon's father (also Simon) who married Amicia deBellemont as his 2nd wife and mother of this Simon.**********----------Simon de Montfort, b. 1165?--d. June 25, 1218, Toulouse, Fr.,French leader of the Albigensian Crusade declared by PopeInnocent III against the Cathari, an unorthodox religious groupin southern France.In 1190 Montfort married Alice de Montmorency (died 1221).During the Fourth Crusade (1202-04) he participated in the siegeof Zara and later fought in Syria. Beginning in 1209 he led thefight against the Cathari (better known as Albigenses after thetown of Albi) in a crusade that quickly became a war of conquestby the northern French against the nobility of the south. Havingconquered Béziers and Carcassonne, he was chosen to govern thoselands. When most of the crusaders departed after the 40-day termthey had promised to serve, he was left with large territoriesstill to conquer. After he had won the important Battle of Muretin 1213, the lands of Raymond VI, count of Toulouse, wereadjudged to Montfort by the fourth Lateran Council (1215)because of Raymond's failure to root out heretics. He now styledhimself count of Toulouse, viscount of Béziers and Carcassonne,and duke of Narbonne, but Raymond did not accept defeat. Heoccupied Toulouse in September 1217. Montfort was killed whilebesieging the city. His son Amaury (died 1241) soon abandonedthe crusade and ceded the Montfort lands in southern France toKing Louis VIII. [Encyclopædia Britannica CD '97]
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- Type: Web Site
Author: jimweber@nwint.com
Title: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest
Date: 2002 [Index . . . great URL]
Text: Search Surname field for individual wanted. Many biographical
Text: notes.
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