Simon I
de Montfort l'Amaury Simon I
de Montfort l'AmaurySimon I de Montfort appears in a charter of Henri I in 1058 [RHF 11, 599]. He appears to have died soon after William the Conqueror, and was followed in succession by four of his sons [see Moriarty-Loyd-White].
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of
Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: In or soon after 1087.
[OV viii (RHF 12: 625), which indicates that he died
very soon after William the Conqueror]
Place of Death: Unknown.
Place of Burial: Épernon.
[OV viii , (see RHF 12: 646)]
Father: Amaury I de Montfort, fl. 1022-1031.
Mother:
Uncertain.
[Said to be named Bertrade.
See the page for Amaury
I]
Spouses:
(1) [Elizabeth or Isabel?],
probably a daughter of Hugues
Bardoul, lord of Broyes, Beaumont, Pithiviers, and
Nogent-le-Roi.
[Anselme 2:338, 6:72, who cites no authority, gives this
parentage, calling her Isabeau. Devaux (1886):123, gives the same
parentage calls her Élisabeth, and quotes a passage from the
Cartulary of Coulombs (Bibl. nat. Ms. latin, 17048, p. 431),
which supports the statement that this wife was a daughter of
Hugues Bardoul, although it does not state so explicitly
(..."Hugo Bardulfus, Castri Novigenti post ipsos
existens dominus, aliique eorum successores, videliciet, Simon de
Montfort et Radulfus junior de Thoenio ..."). See also Moriarty-Loyd-White
710, note (e) for further support. However, I
have not seen any evidence to justify the name of this wife.]
(2) NN
[GND (Rob. Tor.) viii, 17 (vol. 2,
pp. 232-5), which states that there were two wives before Agnes.]
(3) Agnes, daughter of Richard, count of Évreux.
[GND (Rob. Tor.) viii, 17 (vol. 2, pp. 232-5), which does not
give her name, and states that there were two previous wives
(identities not given); OV ii, 403-4, which gives her name as
Agnes; OV v, 13 (vol. 3, pp. 126-9), calls her Agnes, daughter of
Richard, count of Évreux and uterine sister of Ralph de Tosny.]
Children:
by the daughter of Hugues
Bardoul:
[GND (Rob. Tor.) viii, 17 (vol. 2,
pp. 232-5), which gives the elder Amaury and Isabel ("Elisabel")
as the children by the unnamed first wife]
Amaury de Montfort "the
Strong", d.s.p. ca. 1089, lord of Montfort l'Amaury, ca.
1087-ca. 1089.
[OV viii (see RHF 12: 639-40), which states
that Amaury was succeeded by his brother Richard]
Isabel/Elizabeth, m. Ralph de Tosny.
[OV v, 13 (vol. 3, pp. 126-9) states this
marriage occurred in exchange for marriage of Simon to Ralph's
uterine sister Agnes d'Évreux.]
by Agnes of Évreux:
Richard, d. ca. 1092, lord of Montfort
l'Amaury, ca. 1089-ca. 1092.
[OV viii (RHF 12: 640, 646), which
states that Richard succeeded his brother Amaury, and that
Richard was "ex sorore nepos Guillelmi comitis", the
latter verifying that he was a son of Agnes (which also seems
likely on onomastic grounds).]
Simon, lord of Montfort l'Amaury, ca.
1092-[1101×1118?].
[OV xi, 35 (vol. 6, pp. 156-7)
states that Simon succeeded his brother Richard. As he appears to
have been younger than Richard, that would also place him as a
child of the third marriage.]
Amaury, prob. living September 1136 [OV xiii, 26 (vol. 6, pp. 466-7)],
d. 18 or 19 April of an unknown year [Obituaries
at the Abbeys of Saint-Magloire (18 Apr., Obit. Sens 1: 390),
Saint-Père-en-Vallée (19 Apr., ibid. 2: 187), and
Haute-Bruyère (xiiii kal. marcii [sic, recte maii],
ibid. 2: 224)], count of Évreux, 1118-,
lord of Montfort l'Amaury; m. (1) Richilde, daughter of Baldwin VII, count of
Hainaut [Gislebert. Chron. Hanon., 505], (2) [Agnes], niece of Étienne
de Garlande [Chr. Maurin., 76-7
(name not given); see Moriarty-Loyd-White 714 for the first name].
Bertrade, m. (1) Foulques
(Fulk) IV, count of Anjou; m
(2) Philip I, king of France.
[GND viii, 17 (vol. 2, pp. 232-5)]
William, d. 27 August 1101, bishop of
Paris, 1095-1101.
[See Moriarty-Loyd-White 711, note e, and sources cited there. As noted there,
he was below the canonical age on his election in 1095, making it
almost certain that he was by Simon's third marriage.]
Anselme = Père Anselme, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, 9 vols. (Paris, 1726-33).
Chr. Maurin. = Ex Chronico Maurinacensi, RHF 12: 68-88.
CP = The Complete Peerage.
Devaux (1886) = J. Devaux, "Essai sur les premiers seigneurs de Pithiviers" (parts III, IV), Annales de la Société Historique & Archéologique du Gâtinais 4 (1886): 94-129.
Gislebert. Chron. Hanon. = Wilhelmus Arndt, ed., Gisleberti Chronicon Hanoniense, MGH SS 21: 481-601.
GND = Guillaume de Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum, as edited in Elisabeth van Houts, ed. & trans., The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, 2 vols., (Oxford, 1992). Citation is by book and chapter of Guillaume's work, with the volume and page number of the edition by van Houts in parentheses. Unless otherwise stated, references are to Guillaume's work, and not to later additions by such authors as Orderic Vitalis and Robert de Torigny.
GND (Orderic) = Additions to GND by Orderic Vitalis.
GND (Rob. Tor.) = Additions to GND by Robert de Torigny.
MGH SS = Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores series.
Moriarty-Loyd-White = George Andrews Moriarty, L. C. Loyd, and Geoffrey H. White, "The Ancestors of Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester", CP 7, Appendix D, 708-717.
Obit. Sens = Obituaires de la Province de Sens (2 vols. in 3, Paris, 1902-6).
OV = Marjorie Chibnall, ed. & trans., The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1969-80). [RHF cited in some cases for volumes of Chibnall's edition of OV to which I do not have easy access]
RHF = Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France.
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
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