Genealogie Wylie » Simon VI de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester [[Ch-Wikibio]] sss (± 1208-1265)

Persönliche Daten Simon VI de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester [[Ch-Wikibio]] sss 

• Er wurde geboren rund 1208 in Montfort,Île de France,France.
• Er ist verstorben am 4. August 1265 in Battle of Evesham,England.

  Oorzaak: war injuries

• Ein Kind von Simon V de Montfort und Alice de Montmorency
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 19. Februar 2023.

Familie von Simon VI de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester [[Ch-Wikibio]] sss

Er ist verheiratet mit Eleanor Plantagenet.

Sie haben geheiratet am 7. Januar 1238 in Ststephen Chaple,Westminster,Middlesex,England.

Kind(er):

1. Simon Montfort  ± 1240-1271
2. Henry Montfort  ± 1240-1265
3. Richard FitzSimon de Montfort  ± 1243-???? 
4. Guy de Montfort  ± 1245-???? 
5. Eleanor de Montfort  1252-1282 

Notizen bei Simon VI de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester [[Ch-Wikibio]] sss

!2nd Earl of Leicester; k. 1264. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 416]

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!Sided with his son-in-law Llewellyn ab Gruffydd against King Henry III. [Funk & Wagnalls]

!England, 1238 -- The Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort, marries Eleanor, the sister of Henry III.
Gascony, France, Aug 1252 -- Simon de Montfort, the king's lieutenant since 1248, resigns because of his unpopularity.
England, Apr 1263 -- Simon joins the rebel barons against the king. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 56]

!Kingston, Surrey, Feb 1238 -- Fierce rivalry between Earl Richard of Cornwall and his brother-in-law Simon de Montfort brought England to the brink of civil war. King Henry fled to the Tower while barons led by Richard met in Kingston to draw up a set of demands. Eleanor, sister of Richard and Henry, is the 23-year-old widow of the second Earl of Pembroke, the son of William Marshal. With Henry's blessing, she married de Montfort in January; Richard was furious, both because of de Montfort's growing influence and because Eleanor had taken a vow of chastity on her husband's death. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 58]

!Oxford, June 1258 -- Simon is one of the prime movers of the coup which forced King Henry III to agree no taxes will be levied on the clergy or laity to pursue plans against Sicily. Under the agreement the king nominated 12 members of the new council, with the peers electing a further 12. The Great Seal of the kingdom is to remain in the hands of the confederates, who include the Earls of Gloucester and Norfolk as well as Simon. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 60]

!Gloucester, 4 Feb 1264 -- As civil war draws closer, bridges across the river Severn were being destroyed to prevent attacks from across the border by armies under the leadership of Simon's two sons. The north is hostile to Earl Simon, and so are many magnates, but he had considerable support from lesser landowners and reformers who include Oxford students and nobles like the Earls of Gloucester and Norfolk. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 61]

!Lewes, East Sussex, 14 May 1264 -- Simon takes Henry III and his son Edward prisoner after a fiercely fought battle. Victory has given de Montfort unprecedented power. Edward made the grave mistake of charging a brilliantly decorated litter which he assumed was carrying de Montfort. It was empty, and Edward's charge took him out of the field of battle, giving Earl Simon the opportunity to outflank the king's army with his armoured cavalry. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 61]

!Evesham, 4 Aug 1265 -- The body of Simon de Montfort, the soldier-reformer, lies dismembered and horribly mutilated on a battlefield here after he and his army were overrun by the forces of Prince Edward. His head has been sent to the wife of his arch-enemy, Roger Mortimer. Thus perished the most powerful man in England for the past three months -- beaten because those he had led had begun to mistrust him. Earl Simon's men fought valiantly, but his Welsh archers fled when they were blinded by a fierce rain squall. De Montfort had brought both the king and his son with him to the west country where he was seeking to consolidate his victory at Lewes in May. With the connivance of loyal knights, Edward escaped while out riding and joined up with loyalist allies. It was King Henry's clear contempt for the spirit of Magna Carta that led to the rebellion led by Simon. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 61]

From 1258 onwards, the authority of King Henry II was undermined by the baronial revolt led by Simon de Montfort. It is often argued that the Barons' War was a major cause of Prince Llywelyn of Wales' success. [A History of Wales, p. 145]

Many of the local followers of Simon de Montfort, who had been dispossessed of their property after the battle of Evesham, took refuge within the precincts of the abbey of St. Edmunds, from whence they were driven out by the royalists, and both abbey and town fined for their support of the insurgents. [Victoria History of Suffolk, p. 18]

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Briefly held Peveril Castle before his downfall and death. [Peveril Castle, p. 21]

King John's youngest dau. Eleanor m. Simon de Montfort in 1238. King Henry III made him Earl of Leicester, giving him custody of Kenilworth Castle in 1244 and a lifetime grant in 1253. However Simon was dissatisfied by Henry's treatment of his family claims and made common cause with other barons who had lost power
and influence. Simon controlled England after the battle of Lewes in 1264, when the king's son, the Lord Edward, and the king's brother, the Earl of Cornwall, were imprisoned by Simon in Kenilworth Castle. Edward managed to escape after being moved to Hereford, and he raised an army in Worcestershire. Edward marched on the de Montfort camp at dawn, killing and capturing many in their beds. The younger Simon de Montfort and a few others managed to escape into the castle by swimming the Great Mere. Three days later (4 Aug 1265) Edward won the battle of Evesham, at which the elder Simon de Montfort was killed. The younger Simon thereupon released Richard of Cornwall as a peace gesture, and before being slain in battle, reached a compromise with King Henry III. But the garrison at Kenilworth Castle, strengthened by a local mob, would not accept the agreement. Knowing that the castle was well stocked with food and arms, they held out, claiming that the castle belonged to Eleanor, Simon de Montfort's widow. The siege of Kenilworth Castle lasted for almost 9 months. Eventually an epidemic disease erupted inside the castle and the garrison
surrendered just before Christmas. They were allowed to depart with their arms, horses and harness. There was only food for two days left in the castle.[Kenilworth Castle, pp. 24-27]

English statesman and soldier, born of an Anglo-French family in Normandy, France. In 1229 he came to England from France, where two years later Henry III, king of England, conformed his title and estaes. He m. Eleanor, the youngest sister of the king in 1238. As a leader of the English barons, Montfort expressed their dissatisfaction with the arbitraary rule of the king. When Henry rejected the Provisions of Oxford, by which the barons had obtained a share in the government, he took up arms and captures the king in 1264. After his victory he established an assembly to assist the king's council that included representatives of the gentry and the towns and is considered an ancestor to the later Parliament. The barons, however, became dissatisfied with Montfort, and he was killed in a battle against a combination of royal and baronial forces at Evesham on Aug 4, 1265. [Funk & Wagnalls, Vol. 18, p. 54]

In 1257 the barony of Embleton, which included the Manor of Dunston, passed by exchange to the popular leader Simon de Montfort. After his death at the battle of Evehsham his forfeited lands were granted by Henry III to his own son Edmund, Earl of Lancaster. [Northumbrian Castles: The Coast, p. 20-22]

2nd husband of Eleanor Plantagenet; father of:
1. Henry, d. 1265
2. Simon, d. 1271
3. Guy, d. 1287/8
4. Eleanor who m. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd
[Edward I, p. 572]

Battle in the Vale of Evesham, in Worcestershire, on 4 August 1265, between the rebel forces of Simon de Montfort, 6th earl of Leicester, and troops loyal to Henry III. Henry was in de Montfort's custody and the king's son, Prince Edward, the future Edward I, moved to free him with the help of Gilbert de Clare, 6th earl of Gloucester/6th earl of Hertford, formerly a loyal supporter of de Montfort. Their force, gathered in the Welsh marches, fell on the rebel troops near Evesham. De Montfort, his son Henry, and his ally Hugh Despenser were slain in the battle; de MOntfort was dismembered and decapitated, and his testicles were hung on either side of his nose. The king, wounded in the battle, was rescued. [The Plantagenet Encyclopedia, p. 73]

NORTHAMPTON CASTLE: There is practically nothing left of this once important medieval castle. The first sturcture was a motte castle, built in the 1080s, on a site from which several Anglo-Saxon houses had been cleared. In c.1110, Henry I took over the castle and enlarged it. Works include a substantial ditch and a rampart round a large bailey. This was one of those occasions when the Crown paid compensation for encroaching upon another owner's land. By 1164 the castle had a great hall, a gateway, curtain walling and a chapel. Soon afterwards, a great tower was built although it is not possible to say what shape or size it achieved.
Northampton was besieged by the Magna Carta barons' forces using French-built siege artillery, but King John relieved the garrison and forced the attackers to withdraw. Major repairs were needed after this engagement but, despite continuing expenditure, the castle was not properly defensible by the time of the Barons' War against Henry III, led by Simon de Montfort who used the castle as a headquarters. There was more spent on it over the next century but it continued to deteriorate. The remains were obscured by the erection of a railway over the site in the 19th century. [Castles of Britain and Ireland, p. 165]

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