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Sunday August 07, 2005

Welcome to the Simon de Montfort Internet Portal

The Simon de Montfort Society welcomes you to the Simon de Montfort Internet Portal, your first port of call for information about the controversial "father of parliaments". Although we kicked off with one page the site will contain all sorts of information provided by the Simon de Montfort Society and other contributors, as well as a multitude of links to other relevant web sites, directories, galleries and any other resources we can obtain permission to publish. 

Please revisit our site regularly to see what is new; we will be adding content regularly from now on.  We welcome suggestions for links or contributions of content please.  If you have some material that you think would be suitable for this web site we would be glad to see it.  We cannot undertake to publish everything we receive and content may be edited but please contact our webmaster at webmaster@simondemontfort.org.  Remember to include the acknowledgement you would like as contributor.
 

 


Earl Simon depicted in a window
of Chartres cathedral - or is it!?
 

Click below for Robert Hill's excellent  "Knights of Avalon" toy knights and Arthurian Legend collectors' website, which has some Simon de Montfort pages: 

     The Knights of Avalon


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Have you found the right Simon de Montfort?

If you are looking for information on Simon de Montfort IV, leader of the Albigensian Crusade, then you may have reached the wrong website.  Although you will find some references to him here, our site is devoted to his son, the "founder of the House of Commons", who was killed at the Battle of Evesham. 
 

 

What's New!

bullet"Other de Montforts" added
bulletPotted biography of Simon de Montfort IV added
bullet"Programme 2005" added
 

Simon de Montfort, son of the infamous leader  of the Albigensian Crusade, was born in Northern France probably in 1208.  Making his way to England around 1230 to the court of Henry III, Simon initially  intended  only to succeed in his claim to the title of earl of Leicester.  By marrying the King's sister he became one of the leading magnates of the realm and his place in English history was sealed when, after a stormy relationship with his brother-in-law, he became the leader of the baronial reform movement that sought to re-establish rights granted under Magna Carta that had been eroded by Henry III.  In the end the reform movement led, through Earl Simon, sowed the seeds of  representative government.  Simon defeated Henry III at the battle of Lewes but his attempts to rule through Henry as a puppet king alienated many of his supporters and Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, died for his cause at the Battle of Evesham on August 4th 1265, surrounded by his implacable enemies.

 

The death of Simon de Montfort

       


This plaque adorns the wall of the House of Representatives
in Washington D.C.

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Since his death at the Battle of Evesham on August 4th 1265, Earl Simon's life, ambitions, motives and actions have been the subject of scholarly investigation and intense, often vitriolic, debate.  Whatever position is taken on Simon de Montfort, "father of parliaments" or "greedy opportunist", his importance as a key figure in one of the most troubled periods of English history is recognised around the world.

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Last updated: 07 August 2005