Guido von Montfort († 1228)

Coat of arms of Guidos of Montfort

Guido von Montfort (* before 1170; † January 31, 1228 ) was lord of Castres , La Ferté-Alais and Bréthencourt , crusader and regent of the county of Sidon .

He was a son of Simon (IV) of Montfort and Amicia, sister of Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester . He was the younger brother of Simon IV. De Montfort , 5th Earl of Leicester.

Guido took part in the Third Crusade in 1189 and probably stayed in the Holy Land until 1192 , when Richard the Lionheart also traveled home.

Around 1202 he was lord of La Ferté-Alais and Bréthencourt, in these lords, which he inherited from his father, his stepfather Guillaume II. Des Barres had previously ruled for him. In the same year he set out on the Fourth Crusade with his brother Simon . However, both refused to divert the crusade against Christian cities. After the siege of Zara , in which they did not take part in the fighting, they left the crusade army and instead traveled to the Holy Land via Hungary . After arriving in Jaffa , they took part in King Amalrich II's campaign from Jerusalem to Tiberias .

Amalrich thanked Guido for his services by arranging for him to marry Helvis von Ibelin, daughter of Balian von Ibelin , widow of Rainald Garnier and Countess of Sidon . Guido was ruler of Sidon until his stepson Balian Garnier came of age in 1210.

Guido later returned home and between 1212 and 1228 took part in some military operations of the Albigensian Crusade , which his brother Simon led. From him he received the Castres in Languedoc as a fief. During the siege of Toulouse in 1218 he was badly wounded by a crossbow bolt , while his brother Simon was killed by a projectile. Towards the end of 1224 Guido appeared before Pope Honorius III as envoy of the French King Louis VIII . in appearance, after the defeat at the beginning of the year, when the last crusaders had to leave the Languedoc after the conquest of Carcassonne and the surrender of his nephew Amalrich VII of Montfort , to vote on the further action against the excommunicated Count Raymond VII of Toulouse and that of the Pope at this time considered to prevent recognition of the peace treaty between the houses of Montfort and Toulouse . Guido himself died in the course of the crusade on January 31, 1228 while defending Varilhes near Pamiers against the Count of Foix. He was buried in the Haute-Bruyère monastery .

Descendants

With his wife Helvis he had two children: Philip of Montfort († 1270), heir to Castres, La Ferté-Alais and Bréthencourt, who stayed in the Holy Land and became lord of Tire and lord of Toron , and Pernelle of Montfort, who Became a nun in the monastery of Saint-Antoine des Champs in Paris .

In 1224 at the latest, Guido Briende von Beynes, the widow of Lambert von Thury, married Lord von Lombers. With Briende he had two daughters and a son: Alicia and Agnes, who both became nuns in the Port-Royal monastery, and Guido von Montfort († 1254), Lord of Lombers.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Oberste : The "crusade" against the Albigensians. Heresy and Power Politics in the Middle Ages. Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-89678-464-1 , p. 166.
2. ↑ Claude de Vic, Joseph Vaissète : Histoire générale de Languedoc . Volume 5. Commentée et continuée jusqu'en 1830, et augmentée d'un grand nombre de chartes et de documens inédits par Alexandre Du Mège. J.-B. Paya, 1842, pp. 355-356 , Liv. XXIV, cap. XXXVI.

predecessor	Office	successor
Simon IV of Montfort	Lord of La Ferté-Alais Lord of Bréthencourt 1188–1228	Philip of Montfort
––	Lord of Castres 1211-1228	Philip of Montfort
Rainald Garnier (Count)	Regent of Sidon 1202-1210	Balian Garnier (Count)