Simon (Montfort) de Montfort (abt. 1025 - 1087)

Born about 1025 in Montfort l'Amaury, Ile de France, France

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Died 25 Sep 1087 at about age 62 in Epernon, Normandie, France

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He took a leading part in 1063 in persuading Duke William to recall Ralph de Tosny and Hugh de Grandmesnil from exile. He was at Fecamp with William in Apr 1066 and in the same year, at Meulan, Simon and his wife confirmed a gift by Richard Fitz Herluin of certain lands to the Abbey of Coulombs, said lands being part of the inheritance of Simon's wife. In 1067, in Paris, he witnessed a charter of Philip I, and in 1072, with his son Amauri, attested another charter of the same King. He married three times, the name of the second wife not being known (nor is it believed he had any issue with her). By his first wife, Isabel, he had a son Amauri (died s.p. bef 1089), who succeeded him, and a daughter, Isabel (or Elizabeth) who married Ralph de Tosny. By third wife, Agnes, he appears to have had Richard (d circa 1092), and Simon, who in turn succeeded their half-brother Amauri, and by her he also certainly had another son, also named Amauri, who succeeded the last-named Simon, as well as a daughter, Bertrade, who was the 4th wife of Fulk IV, Count of Anjou. She is stated to have deserted Fulk for Philip I of France.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Geneajourney.com

See also:

• Michel Call, Royal Ancestors of some LDS families