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unusual facts about Peter de Montfort


Parliament of England

From the 1540s the presiding officer in the House of Commons became formally known as the "Speaker", having previously been referred to as the "prolocutor" or "parlour" (a semi-official position, often nominated by the monarch, that had existed ever since Peter de Montfort had acted as the presiding officer of the Oxford Parliament of 1258).


Lady Elizabeth Montacute

Elizabeth Montfort was the granddaughter of Peter de Montfort of Beaudesert Castle by Alice Audley, and the daughter of Peter de Montfort (d. before 4 March 1287) and Maud de la Mare, daughter of Sir Henry de la Mare (d.1257), of Ashtead, Surrey.


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