Simon de Montfort the Younger

Simon de Montfort "the younger" or Simon VI de Montfort (April 1240 – 1271) was the second son of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Eleanor of England.

His father and his elder brother Henry were killed at the Battle of Evesham in August 1265. The younger Simon had been slow to bring his forces from London, and had seen them and their banners captured by Prince Edward, who then used the banners to trick Simon's father. The younger Simon came to Evesham just in time to see his father's head atop a pike. The younger Simon tried to raise a rebellion in Lincolnshire, but this had petered out by Christmas.

He and his younger brother Guy escaped to France and Italy: in 1271 they discovered and murdered their cousin Henry of Almain (whom they blamed for the death of their father) at the church in Viterbo, for which they were excommunicated. Simon died later that year from Tuscan fever at Siena, "cursed by God, a wanderer and a fugitive".

Ancestors

Ancestors of Simon de Montfort the Younger

8. Simon III de Montfort 4. Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester 9. Amicia de Beaumont 2. Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester 10. Bouchard V de Montmorency 5. Alix de Montmorency 11. Laurette of Hainaut 1. Simon VI de Montfort 12. Henry II of England 6. John of England 13. Eleanor of Aquitaine 3. Eleanor of England 14. Aymer Taillifer, Count of Angoulême 7. Isabella of Angoulême 15. Alice of Courtenay

References

• "Montfort, Simon of (1240-1271)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.