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SIMON DE MONTFORT

Simon de Montfort was an English statesman and soldier. He was born in 1208 and died in 1265 at the battle of Evesham. He inherited the earldom of Leicester in 1232, and in 1238 married a younger sister of Henry III. He took a leading part among the barons opposing the king, and on May the 13th 1264 defeated and captured the king at Lewes, spending the next year as dictator of England, summoning in January 1265 parliament - often called the first parliament. Other barons, jealous of Montfort' power defected to the King and together they defeated Montfort at the battle of Evesham on the 4th of August 1265.
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