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unusual facts about Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola



Counts of Castres

1211-1228 : Guy de Montfort († 1228), Lord of Ferté-Allais et de Bréthecourt, son Simon III de Montfort, Lord of Montfort and d'Amicie de Beaumont.

Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola

He was held at Windsor Castle until spring 1266, when he bribed his captors and escaped to France to rejoin his exiled family.

In 1271, Guy and Simon discovered that their cousin Henry of Almain (son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall) was in Viterbo at the church of San Silvestro.

Martha, Viscountess of Marsan

Martha was the third child of her mother, her second marriage to Guy de Montfort had produced two half-sisters, Alice, who would go onto succeed their mother and a second Petronilla who was married to Raoul de la Roche-Tesson.


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