Guy de Monfort1b. circa 1244, d. circa 1291, #31890
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| Father | Simon V de Montfort Earl of Leicester1 b. between 1208 and 1209, d. 4 August 1265 | |
| Mother | Eleanor Plantagenet1 b. 1215, d. 13 April 1275 |
| Name Variation | Guy de Monfort was also found as Guy de Montfort.2 | |
| !AInfoNew* | 1265 | Guy de Montfort, b. ca 1244; like his brother Simon he wandered Europe as an exile after 1265, but ultimately took service with Charles of Anjou, younger brother of King Louis IX, the Montforts' kinsman through Blanche of Castile. Guy served Charles as Vicar-General in Tuscany, and there married Margherita Aldobrandescha, by whom he left two daughters from whom all Simon de Montfort's living descendants are traced. Guy died a prisoner of the Aragonese faction in Sicily sometime around 1291. He was involved with his older brother Simon in the murder of Henry of Cornwall in 1271.1 |
| research* | 1266 | Find 1266 See Gary Boyd Roberts, *Notable Kin*, vol. 1 [Santa Clarita: Boyer, 1998], pp. 34-44 for some of the descendants of this Guy and Margherita's daughter Anastasia, such as Elizabeth Woodville (d. 1492), Popes Leo X (d. 1521) and Paul III (d. 1549), and so on. |
| !AInfoNew | 1266 | At the battle of Lewes where his father, Simon de Montfort, was victorious over King Henry III, Guy and his brother Henry had commanded the right wing. Once his father had established himself as factual ruler of England, he started to be generous to his immediate family. However, being a young man, Guy was given only deer to stock the the family parks. Then on 4 August 1265 at the battle of Evesham, the family's fortunes turned. Simon de Montfort was killed and so was his eldest son, Henry. Heavily wounded, Guy de Montfort hovered close to death for weeks. Edward I banished his "dear Aunt" Eleanor, Countess of Leicester, who, with her daughter Eleonore, went to France where sons Amaury and Richard de Montfort already were. Simon the Younger soon found his way to France as well. Guy, still recovering, remained a prisoner at Windsor. In the spring of 1266, Guy bribed his jailers and escaped to France. In 1268 he went with his brother Simon to Italy and at first joined the service of a cousin, Philippe de Montfort. He distinguished himself in that year at the great battle of Alba. Guy was then employed by Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily, as vicar of Florence and Tuscany, and married Margherita Aldobranderschi, daughter of the most important man in southern Tuscany. In 1271 the cardinals were bickering over the election of a new pope and many people had come to Rome for the event. King Edward I of England had sent his cousin, Henry of Almain, son of Richard of Cornwall, and a first cousin of the Montforts. Guy and Simon the Younger, hearing of his presence at Viterbo, remembered Henry of Almain's traitorous withdrawal from his conferation with their father which had been the beginning of their father's end. So the two brothers and some of their knights went to the church of San Silvestro where Henry of Almain was hearing mass. There they attacked him and, dragging him outside, killed him, this moment of madness ruined the fortunes of the Montforts. The brothers were excommunited and their lands confiscated, and Simon apparently died while hiding in an obscure refuge in the same year. Guy survived the pope's displeasure and rejoined Charles of Anjou's army. In 1287 he led an expedition against the Aragonese, only to be captured and imprisoned in a Sicilian fortress where he died four years later.3 |
| Marriage* | circa 1271 | Guy de Monfort married Margherita Aldobrandesco Countess of Soano circa 1271.2 |
| Family | Margherita Aldobrandesco Countess of Soano b. circa 1255, d. 1313 | |
| Child | 1. | Anastasia de Montfort+ b. b 12912 |
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