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3 unusual facts about Simon I de Montfort


Montfode Castle

It is suggested that the arms were the same as those of the Monfort family, namely; gules, a lion rampant queue fourchée argent.

Simon I de Montfort

Amaury III of Montfort(c. 1070–1127), married Richude (Richilde) de Hainault and Agnes de Garland.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden

The memorials in the church include three recumbent effigies of knights, one lying cross-legged; although apparently in the style of the 13th century, the effigies have been ascertained to date from the 16th century and are thought to have been sculpted as fabricated evidence of the pedigree of the Wellesbourne family as descendants of Simon de Montfort.



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