MONTMORENCY, Alix of

Father: MONTMORENCY, Bouchard V of

Mother: HAINAUT, Laurence of

Family 1: MONTFORT, Simon V the Stiff of

  • Church wedding: before 1190
  • Note: Anselme op.cit. flight VI, p.75 (Montfort) and flight III P.569 (Montmorency). Cockayne, C$$Op cit. p.537-549 Erich Brandeburg, Die Nachkommen Karls of Grossen, Frankfurt amndt Mein (Germany), Zentrallestelle fűr deutsche Personen - und Familiengeschichte, coll. "Genealogy und Landesgeschichte" flight 10: "Caroli Magnie Progenies" number 1, 1935, reprinting 1964, xii - 122 pages; XIV 524. Simon de Montfort, (1150-1218), man of French war, head of the crusade against the Albigensians. Second wire of Simon III, Simon IV the Fort was distinguished at the time of the fourth crusade in 1202 and, at the request of the pope Innocent III, left in 1209 in crusade against the Albigensians. He accepted from the pope the fields contiguous to Carcassonne and Béziers which belonged then to Raymond Roger, Viscount of Carcassonne and Béziers. He beat Raymond VI, the count of Toulouse, in 1212 in Castelnaudary and conquered Narbonne and Toulouse in 1215. He then saw himself allotting the county of Toulouse by Innocent III to the council of Lateran, but again lost it after having gone to fight the people of Provence which had been raised to support their lord. Simon de Montfort returned to besiege Toulouse in 1218 and lost the life at the time of the combat. (Encyclopaedia Inserted 2001) He was the son of Simon II of Montfort count d' Evreux, and Thinned countess of Leicester. He had taken share with the fourth crusade; but refusing to serve the intrigues of Venetian, it had gained Palestine. Of return in the Island of France, it was let involve in 1209 per Guy, abbot of Are worth-Cernay who had accompanied it out of Holy Land, with the crusade against the Albigensians. It was distinguished with the attack from Carcassonne, and was elected, a little later lord of all the removed fields with Raymond-Roger, Viscount of Béziers and Carcassonne. It still made, in spite of various cruelly repressed revolts, the conquest of the castle of Mirepoix, Pamiers, Saverdun, all the Albigensian. Lastly, it declared the war with the count de Toulouse Raymond VI, in 1211, took several places to him, but in vain put the seat in front of Toulouse. Its victory of Low wall over the armies of the counts de Toulouse, of Foix and king d' Aragon, Pierre II was decisive (1213). It completed the conquest of the fields of Raymond VI, and the council of Montpellier, then the pope gave him temporarily the guard of the county of Toulouse. Raymond VI and his son withdrew themselves in England. Simon was a also Master of all the South, and the general council of Lateran (1215) assure him the possession of the county of Toulouse. But it could not prevent Raymond VII recovering most of Provence and even from returning to Toulouse in 1217. It went to make the seat of this city, and found death there. If its burning piety and its military qualities are undeniable, it should be recognized, with the Benedictines, that it "had a disproportionate passion to increase, that he was hard, vindicatory, cruel and sanguinary". Nouveau Larousse Illustré 1900 volume 6 page 195.
    1. MONTFORT, Guy of 
                      MONTMORENCY, Mathieu I of ||-  MONTMORENCY, Bouchard V of ||| ENGLAND, Alice of |---|- MONTMORENCY, Alix of|| HAINAUT, Baudouin IV the Builder of |||-  HAINAUT, Laurence of | NAMUR, Alix of
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