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10 unusual facts about Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester


Amaury VI of Montfort

Amaury VI de Montfort (1195–1241) was the son of the elder Simon de Montfort and Alice of Montmorency, and the brother of the younger Simon de Montfort.

Arnold Fitz Thedmar

Arnold was by no means blind to the faults of Henry's government, but preferred an autocracy to the mob rule which Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester countenanced in London.

Giles de Argentine

In 1263 he was made constable of Windsor, and after the battle of Lewes he appears to have been placed on the supreme council of nine, and to have been one of its three members (acting also as custodes sigilli) who were in attendance on the king and Simon de Montfort throughout the campaign of Evesham.

History of the Constitution of the United Kingdom

Under pressure from the barons, led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Henry had to accept the existence of the first English Parliament and other constitutional limitation on the monarchy placed by Provisions of Oxford.

Jewish community of Worcester

In 1263, during the baronial revolt of Simon de Montfort, the rebel Robert Ferrers, earl of Derby led an attack on Worcester.

John de Vesci

John sided with Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester during the barons' rebellion against King Henry III, known as the Second Barons' War of 1263–64.

Lord Colvill

Walter de Colville of Castle Bytham in Lincolnshire was summoned in 1264 to a Parliament convened on behalf of Henry III of England by Simon de Montfort, who held the king captive.

Michael Wood's Story of England

With the help of the residents, he charts events in the village leading to the people's involvement in the Civil War of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.

Statute of Gloucester

The Statute of Gloucester, and the ensuing legal hearings, were a means by which Edward I tried to recover regal authority that had been alienated during the reign of his father, King Henry III (1216-1272) who had been made a virtual tool of the baronial party led by Simon de Montfort.

Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood

His other noted publication was a book on the Battle of Lewes (1264) between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort, but he is most noted for his interest in nature conservancy.


Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse

The stone that killed Simon de Montfort in 1218, while he was besieging Toulouse, was thrown from the roof of Saint-Sernin.

Bernard Ato VI

He reigned from 1163 until 1214, when he surrendered his fiefs to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester and leader of the Albigensian Crusade.

Bletchingley Castle

Simon de Montfort, accompanied by Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, marched by here on his way to attack the king's army on the coast.

Felix Gras

His next work, Toloza, an epic poem about the invasion of the Albigenses by Simon de Montfort, came in 1882, to further acclaim.

John of Arsuf

The letter, which had the encouragement of Richard of Cornwall behind it, proposed that Frederick pardon all baronial rebels and create Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, bailiff.

Richard's Castle

In 1264 his son, Hugh Mortimer, was forced to surrender himself and Richard's Castle to Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.

Roger de Leybourne

He joined Edward in autumn 1259 when he allied with Simon de Montfort, and was made custodian of Bristol Castle in November.

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.