Montfort

[ mont-fert; French mawn-fawr ]

noun

1. Si·mon de [see-, mawn, d, uh], c1160–1218, French leader of the crusade against the Albigenses.
2. his son Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 1208?–65, English soldier and statesman: leader of the Barons' War.

Montfort

/ ˈmɒntfət /

noun

1. MontfortSimon de?12081265MEnglishMILITARY: soldierPOLITICS: statesman Simon de, Earl of Leicester. ?1208–65, English soldier, born in Normandy. He led the baronial rebellion against Henry III and ruled England from 1264 to 1265; he was killed at Evesham

Example Sentences

She had been preceded by the celebrated Countess de Montfort, in Brittany.

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Montfort experience ought to have reminded me that the decks are always washed by the night watch.

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Montfort himself was at the head of a fourth division, which was either in reserve, or on the right centre.

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It seems more probable that Montfort's right descended straight on Lewes in close proximity to the centre.

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Montfort was at Hereford, trying to quiet the disordered marches of Wales, the king and prince Edward with him.

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