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10 Facts About Simon de Montfort

Jan 8, 2021

anniversaries, battles, Book Reviews, religion

anti-Semitism, Barons’ Crusade, Battle of Evesham, Battle of Lewes, de Montfort University, Earls of Leicester, Edward I, Eleanor Plantagenet, Gascony, Henry III, History Hit, Matthew Lewis, Parliament, rebellions, secret marriage, Simon de Montfort, Wigmore Abbey

Following his successful Henry III biography, here is Matthew Lewis’ contribution to History Hit about Simon de Montfort, the rebel who secretly married Henry’s sister before capturing him and Prince Edward, then being killed in battle at Evesham.
Richard III, the Merovingians, Rothley, the Templars and The De Castro Code….!

Nov 16, 2017

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, genealogy, religion

“Tudors”, Battle of Evesham, conspiracy theories, Earls of Leicester, Edward I, Leicestershire, National Portrait Gallery, Norman conquest, portraits, Richard III, Rosslyn Chapel, Rothley Chapel, Simon de Montfort, St. Mary De Castro, Stanleys, Templars

The painted tapestry below is from Rothley Chapel in Leicestershire. Strangely, since the article that prompts me now (see link below) was written in 2012, no one appears to have noticed the great likeness of the depicted English king to Richard III. At least, if they have, I don’t know of it. It’s Richard, even…