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Biography of Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester 1175-1218

Paternal Family Tree: Reginar aka Percy

Maternal Family Tree: Petronilla Grandesmil Countess Leicester 1135-1212

1213 Battle of Muret

1218 Siege of Toulose 1218

Around 1175 Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester was born to Simon Montfort and Amicia Beaumont.

In 1188 [his father] Simon Montfort died.

In 1190 Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester (age 15) and Alix Montmorency were married. They were fifth cousin once removed. She a great granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

In 1195 [his son] Amaury Montfort was born to Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester (age 20) and [his wife] Alix Montmorency. He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

Around 1200 [his daughter] Amicie de Montfort was born to Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester (age 25) and [his wife] Alix Montmorency. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

Around 21st October 1204 Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester (age 29) succeeded 5th Earl of Leicester.

Around 1208 [his son] Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester was born to Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester (age 33) and [his wife] Alix Montmorency. He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

Battle of Muret

The Battle of Muret, the last major battle of the Albigensian Crusade, was fought on 12th September 1213 between the armies of Peter II King Aragon (age 35) and Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester (age 38). The Argonese forces were heavily defeated. Peter II King Aragon was killed. His son James (age 5) succeeded I King Aragon.

Les Grandes Chroniques de France. [12th September 1213]. After the barons and prelates had returned to France, the King of Aragon (age 35), the Count of Saint-Gilles (age 56), the Count of Foix, and many other barons of the land laid siege to the count in the castle of Muriaus. They had gathered a great host and inflicted wrongs, as they were of the country, and the count had only sixty knights, mounted sergeants, and pilgrims on foot, all unarmed, around him. After the count [Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester (age 38)] and his people had devoutly heard mass, confessed their sins, and invoked the grace of the Holy Spirit, they came out of the castle, bold as lions, as those armed with faith and belief, and valiantly fought against their enemies. They killed the King of Aragon and about 18,000 of his people. After they had won the battle and their enemies were all killed or driven away, they found that they had only lost eight pilgrims from all their company. Never had such a victory been heard of in this world, nor such a marvelous battle where so great a miracle should be noted. This Count Simon was called in the land the 'strong count,' for his marvelous strength. For, although he was very noble in arms, he was so devout that he heard mass and his canonical hours every day; always armed, always in danger. He had entirely left and renounced his country, in service to Our Lord, on this pilgrimage, to earn God's love and the joy of Paradise.

Après ce que li baron et li prelat s'en furent retorné en France, li rois d'Arragon, li cuens de Saint Gyle, li cuens de Fois, et maint autre baron du païs assistrent le conte ou chastel de Muriaus. Grant ost et tort avoient assemblé, come cil qui du pais estoient, et li cuens n'avoit que ce et lx chevaliers, d serjanz à cheval, et pèlerins à piè, toz desarmez, entor vif. Après ce que li cuens et sa gent orent la messe oie par L;rant dévotion, et il orent leur péchiez confessez et apelée la grâce du Saint Esperit, il issirent du chastel hardi comme lyon, come cil qui estoient armé de foi et de créance, et se combatirent à leur anemis vertueusement. Le roi d'Arragon occistrent et bien xviii de sa gent. Après ce que il orent la bataille vaincue et toz leur anemis occis et chaciez, il troverent que il n'orent perdu de tote leur gent que viii pèlerins tant seulement. Si ne fu ainques oie tel victoire en cest siècle ne si merveilleuse, ne bataille où l'on deust noter si grant miracle. Icil cuens Symons estoit apelez ou pais cuens forz, pour sa mervelleuse force. Car com il fust très nobles en armes, il estoit si preuzdons que il ooit chascun jor sa messe et ses houres kanoniaus; toz jors armez, toz jors en péril. Si avoit du tôt guerpi et adossé son pais, pour le servise Nostre Seigneur, en ceste voie de pérégrination, pour deservir l'amor de Dieu et la joie de Paradis.

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Siege of Toulose 1218

On 25th June 1218 Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester (age 43) was killed at the Siege of Toulose 1218. His son [his son] Amaury (age 23) succeeded 6th Seigneur Montfort. His son [his son] Simon (age 10) succeeded 6th Earl of Leicester.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

[his father] Simon Montfort and [his mother] Amicia Beaumont were married. She by marriage Seigneur Montfort. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Robert Beaumont 3rd Earl of Leicester and [his grandmother] Petronilla Grandesmil Countess Leicester. He the son of [his grandfather] Simon "Chauve" Montfort 4th Count Évreux and [his grandmother] Mathilde Unknown Countess Évreux. They were half third cousin twice removed.

Royal Ancestors of Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester 1175-1218

Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor

Kings France: Great x 5 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 10 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Royal Descendants of Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester 1175-1218

Agnes La Marck Queen Consort Navarre

Joan of Burgundy Queen Consort France

Blanche of Burgundy Queen Consort France

Philip "Noble" III King Navarre

Joan Évreux Queen Consort France

Blanche Dampierre Queen Consort Norway and Sweden

Joan Auvergne Queen Consort France

Yolande of Bar Queen Consort Aragon

Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford

Mary of Guelders Queen Consort Scotland

Queen Charlotte of Savoy

Louis XII King France

Bianca Maria Sforza Holy Roman Empress

Anne of Brittany Queen Consort France

Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile

Germaine Foix Queen Consort Aragon

Marguerite Valois Orléans Queen Consort Navarre

King Francis I of France

Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England

Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland

Antoine King Navarre

Louis VI Elector Palatine

Louise Lorraine Queen Consort France

Maximilian "The Great" Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria I Elector Bavaria

Maria Anna Wittelsbach Holy Roman Empress

Electress Louise Juliana of the Palatine Rhine

Ferdinand of Spain II Holy Roman Emperor

Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain

Eleonora Gonzaga Queen Consort Bohemia

Maria Leopoldine Habsburg Spain Queen Consort Bohemia

Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal

Victor Amadeus King Sardinia

Maria Anna Neuburg Queen Consort Spain

Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor

Charles Habsburg Spain VI Holy Roman Emperor

Francis I Holy Roman Emperor

Elisabeth Therese Lorraine Queen Consort Sardinia

King George III of Great Britain and Ireland

Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England

Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway

Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England

Frederica Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort Hanover

King Christian I of Norway and VIII of Denmark

Frederick William IV King Prussia

William I King Prussia

Frederick VII King Denmark

Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway

Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Frederick Charles I King Finland

Constantine I King Greece

Alexandrine Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Denmark

Victoria Eugénie Mountbatten Queen Consort Spain

Louise Mountbatten Queen Consort Sweden

Ingrid Bernadotte Queen Consort Denmark

Philip Mountbatten Duke Edinburgh

Carl XVI King Sweden

Diana Spencer Princess Wales

Ancestors of Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester 1175-1218

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Reginarids

Great x 3 Grandfather: Aumary Reginarids

Great x 2 Grandfather: Simon Montfort

Great x 3 Grandmother: Bertrade Unknown

Great x 1 Grandfather: Amaury Montfort Count Évreux

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Normandy Archbishop of Rouen

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux

Great x 4 Grandmother: Herleva Countess Évreux

Great x 2 Grandmother: Agnès of Normandy

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ramon Borrell Count of Barcelona

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adelaide or Godehildis Ramon

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ermesinde of Carcassonne

GrandFather: Simon "Chauve" Montfort 4th Count Évreux

Father: Simon Montfort

GrandMother: Mathilde Unknown Countess Évreux

Simon "Elder" Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey "Vielles" Beaumont

Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger "Bearded" Beaumont

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adeline Meulan

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Henry I of France

Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh "Great" Capet

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Rurik Queen Consort France

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adelaide I Countess Vermandois

Great x 4 Grandmother: Adela Valois Countess Blois and Vermandois

GrandFather: Robert Beaumont 3rd Earl of Leicester

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph "Staller" Gael 1st Earl East Anglia

Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph de Gael 2nd Earl East Anglia

Great x 2 Grandfather: Raoul Gael

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fitzosbern 1st Earl Hereford

Great x 3 Grandmother: Emma Fitzosbern Countess East Anglia

Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelise Tosny Countess Hereford

Great x 1 Grandmother: Amice Gael Countess Leicester

Mother: Amicia Beaumont

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Grandesmil

Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Grandesmil

Great x 4 Grandmother: Hawisa Échauffour

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Grandesmil

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ivo Beaumont Oise Count Beaumont sur l'Oise

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adelize Beaumont Oise

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Grandesmil

GrandMother: Petronilla Grandesmil Countess Leicester