Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres

Philip of Montfort (died September 24, 1270) was a French nobleman, Count of Squillace in Italy from 1266/68, then Lord of Castres in 1270. He was the son of Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre and Eleonore of Courtenay. His coat-of-arms was Gules, a lion rampant double queued argent, a label of four points azure (or ... rampant queue forche ...).

Biography

Coats of Arms of the Lords of Castres.

He joined the expedition of Charles of Anjou to conquer the Kingdom of Sicily, and he shared command of the first battalion at the Battle of Benevento with Hugh of Mirepoix. He led the Angevin troops into the island of Sicily after Benevento, and helped to put down the revolt that broke out there upon the advance of Conradin into Italy. On his father’s death in March 1270, he succeeded to his French seigneury of Castres, but his father's possessions in Outremer had been granted to his half-brother John of Montfort. He joined the Eighth Crusade and died in Tunis.

Family

He married Jeanne de Lévis-Mirepoix († June 30, 1284), daughter of Guy I de Lévis, Lord of Mirepoix and Guibourge of Montfort and had three children:

• John of Montfort, Count of Squillace (d. bef. December 1300), married firstly Isabella Maletta, married secondly Giovanna di Fasanella, married thirdly in 1273 Marguerite of Beaumont (d. March 1307, Marseilles)
• Laure of Montfort (d. bef. December 1300), married Bernard VII of Comminges
• Eleonore of Montfort (d. aft. May 1338), married before February 1302 John V of Vendôme
• Jeanne of Montfort (d. 1300), married firstly 1268 Guy VI of Forez (January 19, 1278), married secondly 1278 Louis I of Savoy, Baron de Vaud (d. aft. 1302).

See also

• Charles I of Sicily
• Eighth Crusade
• Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre

Ancestry

Ancestors of Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres

Amaury III de Montfort               Simon III de Montfort                       Agnes de Garlande               Guy de Montfort, Lord of Sidon                             Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester               Amicia de Beaumont                       Petronilla de Grandmesnil               Philip de Montfort, lord of Tyre                                   Barisan of Ibelin               Balian of Ibelin                       Helvis, lady of Ramla               Helvis of Ibelin                             John Komnenos               Maria Komnene                       Maria Taronitissa               Philip de Montfort, lord of Castres                                         Bohemond de Poitiers, prince of Antioch               Raymond IV De Poitiers, count of Tripoli                       Orguilleuse d'Harenc               Raymond-Roupen de Poitiers of Antioch                             Rupen III of Rupenids, king of Armenia               Alice of Rupenids of Armenia                       Isabella of Toron               Maria de Poitiers of Armenia                                   Hugh VIII, lord of Lusignan               Aimery de Lusignan, king of Cyprus                       Burgondie de Rancon               Helvis de Lusignan                             Baldwin d'Ibelin, lord of Rampla               Eschive d'Ibelin                       Richilde de Bethsan

References

• Runciman, Steven (1958). The Sicilian Vespers. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43774-1.

External links

• Coat of Arms in the Wijnbergen Roll