Simon II de Montfort

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Simon II de Montfort born about 1068 in Montfort l'Amaury, Ile de France, France and died September 25, 1104. He was the son of Simon I de Montfort, Count of Évreux (c. 1025–1087) and Agnès d'Évreux (c. 1030–c. 1087).[1]

He succeeded his brother Richard de Montfort in 1092 as "Seigneur de Montfort-l'Amaury". In 1098, he had to sustain a siege led by William II Rufus, King of England (and guardian of Normandy in the absence of Robert Curthose gone to crusade), and successfully fought it off.[2] He died without an heir and left Montfort to his brother, Amaury III of Montfort.


References

  1. ^ (FR) André Châtelain, Châteaux forts et féodalité en Ile de France, du XIème au XIIIème siècle, (Nonette, 1983), 20.
  2. ^ Frank Barlow, William Rufus, (University of California Press, 1983), 394.