Simon de Montfort, eighth earl of Leicester

(1208 c.-1265)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 1208?-1265 DNB: Montfort, Simon de, eighth earl of Leicester (c.1208-1265), magnate and political reformer LBT ID: LdLeice8 VIAF ID: 128586445 LOC ID: n50072967	B/BAP: 1208 DIED: 1265-08-04
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Leader of the rebellion against Henry III in the Barons' War; he was killed at Evesham.
REFERENCES TO Simon de Montfort, eighth earl of Leicester: Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 17 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. I. 1791-93 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 16 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 11 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1797