Family of Guy + of MONTFORT and Helvis + of IBELIN

Husband:	Guy + of MONTFORT (1172-1228)
Wife:	Helvis + of IBELIN (1176-1216)
Children:	Philip + of MONTFORT (1204-1240)
	Pernelle of MONTFORT (c. 1206- )

Husband: Guy + of MONTFORT

Name:	Guy + of MONTFORT
Sex:	Male
Father:	Simon III of MONTFORT (1148-1181)
Mother:	Amicia HARCOURT (1160-1215)
Birth	1172	Montfort, sur-Risle, Eure, High Normandy, France
Occupation		Lord of Sidon
Title		Lord of Sidon
Death	31 Jan 1228 (age 55-56)	France
Burial		Abbey of Haute-Bruyere

Wife: Helvis + of IBELIN

Name:	Helvis + of IBELIN
Sex:	Female
Father:	Balian II + of IBELIN (1143-1193)
Mother:	Marie + KOMNENE (1154-bef1217)
Birth	1176	Palestine
Occupation		Lady of Sidon
Title		Lady of Sidon
Death	1 Jun 1216 (age 39-40)

Child 1: Philip + of MONTFORT

Child 2: Pernelle of MONTFORT

Name:	Pernelle of MONTFORT
Sex:	Female
Birth	1206 (est)

Note on Husband: Guy + of MONTFORT

Guy de Montfort (died 31 January 1228) was the younger son of Simon III de Montfort and Amicia, sister of Robert FitzPernel, Earl of Leicester.

In 1189 he took part in the Third Crusade, and probably remained in the Holy Land until 1192, when Richard the Lionheart returned home. By 1200 or 1201 Guy was acting with his elder brother Simon. By 1202 he held the lordships of Ferté-Alais, Castres-en-Albigeois, and Brétencourt. In that year he and his brother Simon left on the Fourth Crusade, but they disagreed with the Siege of Zara (an attack on a Christian city), and refused to take part in the plan to restore Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelus in return for Byzantine money and troops.

 

They deserted to Emeric, King of Hungary, and eventually the two continued on to Palestine. After arriving at Jaffa, they took part in King Amalric II of Jerusalem's expedition into Galilee. Amalric rewarded Guy's service by arranging his marriage to la dame de Saete (the lady of Sagette), Helvis of Ibelin, the widow of Reginald, Lord of Sidon (which the French called Saete/Sagette). He exercised the regency of Sidon on behalf of his minor stepson Balian until 1210, probably when Balian came of age. Guy then assisted at the coronation of John of Brienne as King of Jerusalem that year.

 

[edit] Albigensian CrusadeGuy later returned home and took part in the Albigensian Crusade led by his brother, Simon IV de Montfort. In 1212 they led an unsuccessful siege against Montségur, and in 1213 they participated in the Battle of Muret. They also besieged Beaucaire in 1216. Simon was aiding Guy, who had been injured by a crossbow bolt, at the Siege of Toulouse on 25 June 1218 when he was struck in the head by a stone from a mangonel and killed. The death of Simon and the incompetence of his son Amaury VI of Montfort invigorated the Albigensian lords.

 

In 1224 Amaury ceded all his territory to Louis VIII of France, who soon arrived to stake his claim. Guy assisted him at the Siege of Avignon, after which Louis died on the way home. Later in the Crusade Guy himself was killed in battle at Vareilles near Pamiers in 1228.[1] He was taken to the abbey of Haute-Bruyère for burial and the necrology there records a conte Gui de Sagette (count Guy of Sidon).

 

[edit] MarriageBy his first wife, Helvis of Ibelin he had;

 

Philip, who stayed in the Holy Land and became Lord of Tyre.

Pernelle, who became a nun at the abbey of Saint-Antoine des Champs in Paris.

Sometime before 1224 Guy remarried to Briende de Beynes, the widow of Lambert de Thury, lord of Lombers.

 

With Briende he had;

 

Alicia, became a nun at Port-Royal

Agnes, became a nun at Port-Royal

Guy II of Montfort, died on crusade in 1254.

Note on Wife: Helvis + of IBELIN

Helvis of Ibelin (after 1178 – before 1 June 1216) was a daughter of Balian of Ibelin and his wife, Maria Komnene, who was the dowager Queen of Jerusalem. Helvis was a member of the House of Ibelin. She was Lady of Sidon by her first and second marriage.

Helvis' mother was the widow of Amalric I of Jerusalem, which made Helvis a half-sister of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem. Helvis was one of four siblings: although their order of birth is uncertain, the manuscripts of the Lignages d'Outremer suggest she was the elder daughter, and possibly the eldest child.[1] Her maternal grandparents were John Komnenos and his wife Maria Taronitissa. Her paternal grandparents were Barisan of Ibelin and his wife Helvis of Ramla.

 

Helvis' siblings were John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut, Margaret of Ibelin, and Philip of Ibelin, Regent of Cyprus.

 

Helvis spent her early life in Jerusalem, though during Saladin's siege of the city in 1187, Helvis, her mother and siblings were escorted to live in Tripoli. Her father Balian remained in Jerusalem and negotiated its surrender to Saladin, but joined his family in Tripoli afterward. They then went to Tyre, where they formed the strongest support for Conrad of Montferrat, who married Helvis's half-sister Queen Isabella in November 1190.

 

[edit] First MarriageHelvis firstly married Reginald of Sidon, a widower over forty years her senior. Reginald had been imprisoned by Saladin and married Helvis soon after his release in April 1190.

 

The couple had the following children:

 

Agnes, married Raoul (Ralph) de Saint-Omer of Tiberias, seneschal of Jerusalem (stepson of Raymond III of Tripoli). (However, only one MS of the Lignages d'Outremer explicitly states that she was Helvis's daughter; given her first name, she may have been from Reginald's previous marriage to Agnes of Courtenay.) [2]

Fenie (Euphemia), married Eudes (Odo) de Saint-Omer of Tiberias, Constable of Tripoli, Lord of Gogulat (stepson of Raymond III of Tripoli, brother of Raoul).

Balian, who married Margaret of Brienne, and succeeded Reginald in Sidon in 1202.

Reginald died in 1202, leaving Helvis a widow.

 

[edit] Second MarriageWhen Guy de Monfort arrived at Jaffa, he took part in King Amalric II of Jerusalem's expedition into Galilee. Amalric rewarded Guy's service by arranging his marriage to Helvis. They married in 1204.[3]

 

The couple had the following children:

 

Philip, who stayed in the Holy Land and became Lord of Tyre.

Pernelle, who became a nun at the abbey of Saint-Antoine des Champs in Paris.

The couple were married four twelve years before Helvis' death in 1214. She had five children in total.