See also:EARL OF See also:LEICESTER See also:SIMON DE See also:MONTFORT (d. 1265)
, See also:English statesman and soldier, was See also:born in See also:France about the See also:year 1200
.
He was the See also:fourth and youngest son of See also:Simon IV. de See also:Montfort (see above), the See also:leader of the Albigensian crusade, by Alicia de Montmorenci
.
Simon IV., whose See also:mother was an heiress of the See also:Beaumont See also:family, claimed in her right, and received from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:John, the earldom of See also:Leicester (1207), only to lose it again through espousing the See also:French See also:side in the See also:wars between that See also:sovereign and See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Augustus
.
The See also:young Simon, of whose youth and See also:education nothing is recorded, came to See also:England in 1230 and attached himself to See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III., obtaining with the consent of his See also:sole surviving See also:brother Amauri a re-See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of the family earldom
.
Simon was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time unpopular with the English and closely attached to the royal party
.
He gave, however, an See also:early See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of religious fervour, and of an unbending harshness, by the See also:expulsion of all the See also:Jews who had settled in his See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Leicester to practise See also:usury
.
In 1238 he obtained the See also:hand of the king's See also:sister Eleanor, the widowof the younger See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Marshal
.
The king approved of the match, but it was resented by his brother See also:Richard of See also:Cornwall and the baronage, and objections were raised on the ground that Eleanor had previously taken vows of chastity
.
With some difficulty See also:Earl Richard was pacified; and Montfort obtained the See also:pope's See also:confirmation of the See also:marriage by a See also:personal visit to See also:Rome
.
In 1239, however, the See also:influence of detractors and a See also:quarrel over some obscure See also:financial trans-actions in which he appears to have used Henry's name without a formal See also:warrant led to a See also:breach between himself and the king
.
The earl and his wife went for a time to France; and, though a nominal reconciliation with the king was soon effected, both departed on crusade with Richard of Cornwall in 1240
.
Eleanor was See also:left behind in See also:Apulia while her See also:husband proceeded to the See also:Holy See also:Land
.
He acquitted himself with distinction, and there was some thought among the Frankish barons of appointing him to See also:act as See also:regent of the Latin See also:kingdom of See also:Jerusalem
.
But he returned in 1241, took See also:part in Henry's disastrous French expedition of 1242, and was readmitted to full favour
.
Between 1243 and 1248 he received many gifts from the king; he stood forward in See also:parliament as a mediator between the See also:court party and the opposition; it is only from the See also:correspondence of his See also:friends See also:Grosseteste and See also:Adam de See also:Marsh that we learn of his dissatisfaction with the See also:condition of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and See also:state
.
He was keenly interested in Grosseteste's proposals for ecclesiastical See also:reformation, and was considered the mainstay of the reforming party
.
In 1248 he again took the See also:cross, with the See also:idea of following See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis IX. to See also:Egypt
.
But, at the repeated See also:requests of the king and See also:council, he gave up this project in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to act as See also:governor in the unsettled and disaffected duchy of See also:Gascony
.
See also:Bitter complaints were excited by the rigour with which the earl suppressed the excesses of the seigneurs and of contending factions in the See also:great communes
.
Henry yielded to the outcry and instituted a formal inquiry into the earl's See also:administration
.
Montfort was formally acquitted on the charges of oppression, but his accounts were disputed by the king, and he retired in disgust to France (1252)
.
The nobles of France offered him the regency of the kingdom, vacant by the See also:death of the See also:Queen-mother See also:Blanche of See also:Castile, but he preferred to make his See also:peace with Henry (1253), in obedience to the exhortations of the dying Grosseteste
.
He helped the king in dealing with the disaffection of Gascony; but their reconciliation was a hollow one, and in the parliament of 1254 the earl led the opposition in resisting a demand for a See also:subsidy
.
In 1256 and 1257, when the discontent of all classes was coming to a See also:head, Montfort nominally adhered to the royal cause
.
He undertook, with See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter of See also:Savoy, the queen's See also:uncle, the difficult task of extricating the king from the pledges which he had given to the pope with reference to the See also:crown of See also:Sicily; and Henry's writs of this date mention the earl in friendly terms
.
But at the " Mad Parliament " of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford (1258) Montfort appeared side by side with the earl of See also:Gloucester at the head of the opposition
.
It is said that Montfort was reluctant to approve the oligarchical constitution created by the Provisions of Oxford, but his name appears in the See also:list of the Fifteen who were to constitute the supreme See also:board of See also:control over the administration
.
There is better ground for believing that he disliked the narrow class-spirit in which the victorious barons used their victory; and that he would gladly have made a See also:compromise with the moderate royalists whose policy was guided by the See also:Lord See also:Edward, Henry's eldest son
.
But the king's success in dividing the barons and in fostering a reaction rendered such projects hopeless
.
In 1261 Henry revoked his assent to the Provisions, and Montfort left the See also:country in despair
.
He returned in 1263, at the invitation of the barons, who were now convinced of the king's hostility to all reform; and raised a See also:rebellion with the avowed See also:object of restoring the See also:form of See also:government which the Provisions had ordained
.
For a few See also:weeks it seemed as though the royalists were at his See also:mercy; but he made the See also:mistake of accepting Henry's offer to abide by the See also:arbitration of Louis IX. of France
.
At See also:Amiens, in See also:January 1264, the French king decided that the Provisions were unlawful and
invalid
.
Montfort, who had remained in England to prepare for the worst, at once resumed the See also:war, and thus exposed himself to accusations of See also:perjury, from which he can only be defended on the See also:hypothesis that he had been led to See also:hope for a genuine compromise
.
Though merely supported by the towns and a few of the younger barons, he triumphed by See also:superior generalship at See also:Lewes (May 14, 1264), where the king, the Lord Edward, and Richard of Cornwall See also:fell into his hands
.
Montfort used his victory to set up the government by which his reputation as a statesman stands or falls
.
The weak point in his See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme was the See also:establishment of a triumvirate (consisting of himself, the young earl of Gloucester, and the See also:bishop of See also:Chichester) in which his colleagues were obviously figureheads
.
This flaw, however, is mitigated by a scheme, which he simultaneously promulgated; for establishing a thorough See also:parliamentary control over the executive; not excepting the triumvirs
.
The parliament which he summoned in 1265 was, it is true, a packed See also:assembly; but it can hardly be supposed that the See also:representation which he granted to the towns (see PARLIAMENT and REPRESENTATION) was intended to be a temporary expedient
.
The reaction against his government was baronial rather than popular; and the Welsh Marchers particularly resented Montfort's See also:alliance with Llewellyn of See also:North See also:Wales
.
Little See also:consideration for English interests is shown in the treaty of Pipton which sealed that alliance (See also:June 22, 1265)
.
It was by the forces of the Marchers and the See also:strategy of Edward that Montfort was defeated at See also:Evesham (Aug
.
4)
.
Divided from the See also:main See also:body of his supporters, whose strength See also:lay in the See also:east and See also:south, the earl was out-numbered and surrounded before reinforcements could reach him
.
For years after his death he was revered by the See also:commons as a See also:martyr, and the government had no little difficulty in reducing the remnants of his baronial supporters
.
His See also:character has suffered in the past from indiscriminate eulogy as much as from detractors
.
He was undoubtedly harsh, masterful, impatient and ambitious
.
But no See also:mere adventurer could have won the friendship of such men as Marsh and Grosseteste; their See also:verdict of approval may be the more unhesitatingly admitted since it is not untempered with See also:criticism
.
The See also:original authorities are those for the reign of Henry III, The best See also:biographies are those by R
.
See also:Pauli (trans
.
C
.
M
.
See also:Goodwin, See also:London, 1876) ; G
.
W
.
Prothero (London, 1877) ; C
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See also:Bemont (See also:Paris, 1884)
.
See also the letters of Adam de Marsh in J
.
S
.
See also:Brewer's Monumenta franciscana, vol. i (Rolls See also:series, 1858) ; H
.
R
.
Luard, Epistolae Roberti Grossetesie (Rolls, series, 1861); F
.
S
.
See also:Stevenson, See also:Robert Grossetesie (London, 1899) • W
.
H
.
Blaauw, The Barons' War (See also:Cambridge, 1871)
.
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