Guido von Montfort († 1220)

Coat of arms of the House of Montfort.

Guido von Montfort (French: Guy de Montfort ; † 1220 before Castelnaudary ) was iure uxoris a Count of Bigorre from the house of Montfort-l'Amaury . He was a younger son of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester , and the Alix de Montmorency .

At a young age, Guido took part in the Albigensian Crusade in the wake of his father . In November 1216 he was married in Tarbes to the much older Pétronille († 1251), the daughter of Count Bernard IV of Comminges and heiress of the County of Bigorre . This marriage was intended to consolidate his father's position of power in the south of France. In 1218 he was present at the siege of Toulouse , in which his father was killed. During the siege of Castelnaudary in 1220, Guido himself was killed.

From his marriage to Pétronille he had two daughters:

• Alix de Montfort (* between 1217 and 1220; † 1255), Countess of Bigorre, ∞ I Jourdain Eschivat III. de Chabanais, ∞ II 1247 Raoul de Courtenay († 1271 in Naples ), Count of Chieti
• Perenelle de Montfort, ∞ Raoul de la Roche-Tesson

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guillaume de Puylaurens , The chronicle of William of Puylaurens. The Albigensian crusade and its Aftermath §24, ed. by MD Sibly and WA Sibly (2003), p. 54
2. ↑ Guillaume de Puylaurens, The chronicle of William of Puylaurens. The Albigensian crusade and its Aftermath §29, ed. by MD Sibly and WA Sibly (2003), p. 63. Here incorrectly dated to the year 1219.
3. ↑ Histoire générale de Languedoc 5, ed. by Alexandre Du Mège and Jean-Baptiste Paya (1842), Liv. XXIII, cap. XLVIII, p. 292

predecessor	Office	successor
Pétronille	Count of Bigorre (with Pétronille) 1216–1220	Pétronille