Simon II de Montfort explained

Simon II de Montfort
Seigneur of Montfort
Reign:1092-1104
Predecessor:Richard de Montfort
Successor:Amaury III of Montfort
Noble Family:House of Montfort
Father:Simon I de Montfort
Mother:Agnès d'Évreux
Birth Date: 1068
Death Date:25 September 1104

Simon II de Montfort (Montfort l'Amaury, Ile de France, France – 25 September 1104) 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.

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Notes and 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.