Simon II de Montfort

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 (c. 1025–1087) and Agnès d'Évreux (c. 1030–c. 1087).[1]

He succeeded his brother Richard de Montfort in 1092 as lord of 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 Simon successfully fought it off.[2] He died without an heir and left Montfort to his brother, Amaury III.


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.


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