NOUN
- an English nobleman who led the baronial rebellion against Henry III (1208-1265)
How To Use Simon de Montfort In A Sentence
- There followed a series of political manoeuvres from which one man, the King's brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, emerged as a somewhat improbable champion of English and baronial interests.
- Concentrated in Albi, a southern French town near Toulouse, the Cathars became known as the Albigenses, and by 1209 they were considered powerful and dangerous enough to warrant a military campaign led by Simon de Montfort to silence them. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- It was for this reason that, when Simon de Montfort and the armies of Pope Innocent III descended upon the region in 1209, it was called the Albigensian Crusade. The Sion Revelation
- The body of Simon de Montfort had endured similar treatment after Evesham in 1265, but it had served only to lend him an aura of sanctity in the minds of his erstwhile supporters.
- Simon de Montfort rose in rebellion in 1258.
