Guy de Montfort, Count of Bigorre
Guy de Montfort (died 1220) was the Count of Bigorre[1] from 6 November 1216 to 1220 in right of his wife, Petronilla. He was a son of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester[2] and Alice of Montmorency.
Guy joined his father on the Albigensian Crusade while still quite young.[3] Late in 1216, he married Petronilla, the heiress to Bigorre and Marsan through her mother Stephanie, and a daughter of Bernard IV of Comminges.[4]
He fought at his father's side at the siege of Toulouse in 1218, but his father died: crushed by the projectile of a siege engine.[5] Guy's oldest brother Amaury de Montfort inherited their father's command, but not his strategic vision. The Occitan lords rebelled against him and Guy was killed in a conflict at Castelnaudary in 1220, either on 4 April or in July.[6]
Guy left a daughter, Alice, who succeeded Petronilla as Countess of Bigorre. He also left a daughter named Pernelle, who married Raoul de la Roche-Tesson.
Notes
- Setton, 834
- Setton, 834.
- Setton, 311.
- Treharne, Reginald Francis and Ivor John Sanders, Documents of the baronial movement of reform and rebellion, 1258-1267, (Oxford University Press, 1973), 198.
- Setton, 314.
- Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde, History of the crusades against the Albigenses in the thirteenth century, (B.B.Mussey, 1833), 160.
References
- Setton, Kenneth M.; Wolff, Robert Lee; Hazard, Harry W., eds. (1969) [1962]. A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Later Crusades, 1189–1311 (Second ed.). Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-04844-6.
- Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde, History of the crusades against the Albigenses in the thirteenth century, B.B.Mussey, 1833.
- Treharne, Reginald Francis and Ivor John Sanders, Documents of the baronial movement of reform and rebellion, 1258-1267, Oxford University Press, 1973.