Simon II de Montfort ( – 25 September 1104) was a French nobleman who was the

Seigneur of Montfort This list is about the lords, counts and dukes who ruled over Montfort-l'Amaury, France. Around ten years before 1000 AD, Robert II of France, Robert the Pious commissioned Guillaume de Montfort of Hainaut, Guillaume de Hainaut with protecting the ...

from 1092 to 1104.

Biography

He was born in

Montfort l'Amaury Montfort-l'Amaury () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yvelines Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, Northern France. It is located north of Rambouillet. The name comes from Amaury I de Montf ...

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, the son of

Simon I de Montfort Simon I of Montfort or Simon de Montfort ( – 25 September 1087) was a French nobleman. He was born in Montfort l'Amaury, near Paris, and became its Seigneur, lord. He was the son of Amaury I de Montfort and Bertrade. At his death he was buried ...

(c. 1025–1087) and Agnès d'Évreux (c. 1030–c. 1087). He succeeded his brother Richard de Montfort in 1092 as lord of

Montfort-l'Amaury Montfort-l'Amaury () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It is located north of Rambouillet. The name comes from Amaury I de Montfort, the first ''seigneur'' (lord) of Montfort. Geography ...

. In 1098, he had to sustain a siege led by William II Rufus,

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and guardian of

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in the absence of

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, gone to

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, and Simon successfully fought it off.Frank Barlow, ''William Rufus'', (University of California Press, 1983), 394. He died without an heir and left Montfort to his brother, Amaury III.

References

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