Guy de Montfort

1244 - 1291  (47 years)

• Name	Guy de Montfort
  Born	1244	England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1291	Sicily
  Notes	Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_de_Montfort,_Count_of_Nola The son of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Eleanor of England, daughter of King John of England and Isabele de Angoulême, he participated in the Battle of Evesham against the royalist forces of his uncle, King Henry III of England, and his cousin, Prince Edward. Both his father and elder brother were traumatically killed during the disastrous battle, Guy de Montfort was extremely wounded and captured. He was held at Windsor Castle until spring 1266, when he bribed his captors and escaped to France to rejoin his exiled family. Guy and his brother, Simon the younger, wandered across Europe for several years, eventually making their way to Italy. Guy took service with Charles of Anjou, serving as his Vicar-General in Tuscany. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Tagliacozzo and was given Nola and the title of Count by Charles of Anjou. Guy murdered his cousin Henry of Almain while he clutched the altar at the church of San Silvestro in Viterbo, begging for mercy. "You had no mercy for my father and brothers," was Guy's reply. This murder was carried out in the presence of the Cardinals (who were conducting a papal Election), of King Philip III of France, and of King Charles of Sicily. For this crime the Montfort brothers were excommunicated, and Dante banished Guy to the river of boiling blood in the seventh circle of his Inferno (Canto XII). Cardinal Riccardo Annibaldi and Cardinal Giovanni Orsini were still in Rome and had been ordered to find a secure place of imprisonment in the territories of the Church for Guy de Montfort. Guy was stripped of his titles and took service with Charles of Anjou again, but was captured off the coast of Sicily in 1287 by the Aragonese at the Battle of the Counts. He died in a Sicilian prison. In Tuscany, he married an Italian noblewoman, Margherita Aldobrandesca, the Lady of Sovana, heiress of a branch of the Aldobrandeschi family, whose lands stretched from the shores of the Tyrrhenian sea to the borders of Acquapendente. With her he had two daughters: Anastasia, who married Romano Orsini, and Tomasina, who married Pietro di Vico. Among his direct descendants through his daughter, Anastasia are late 15th century Kings of Naples, England's Queen-Consort Elizabeth Woodville, 16th century rulers of Poland, Dukes of Ferrera, and Dukes of Guise.
  Person ID	I35253	Master File
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2016

  
  

  Father	Simon V de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester,   b. 1208, England ,   d. 04 Aug 1265, Evesham, Worcestershire, England  (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Eleanor of England,   b. 1215, Gloucester, Gloucershire, England ,   d. 13 Apr 1275, Montargis, Loiret, Centre, France  (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F14556	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margherita Aldobrandeschi, Countess of Sovana and Pitigliano
  Children	1. Anastasia de Montfort, Countess of Nola,   b. 1274, Italy ,   d. Bef 15 Jan 1345, Italy  (Age 71 years)
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2016
  Family ID	F14555	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart