The family began when Hugh Capet granted a petty lordship to Guillaume de Montfort in the Île-de-France. His successors were to be the vassals of the counts of Beaumont. Guillaume's son, Amaury began building a castle that would eventually become the eponymous Montfort-l'Amaury. The project, however, was incomplete when he died c. 1053, but his son, Simon, finished it in 1067. His great-grandson, Simon IV would eventually marry the heiress of Leicester, and their son, Simon V would become the first Montfort earl of Leicester.[1]
During the 13th century the family lost its ancestral seat of Montfort-l'Amaury to the House of Dreux.[1]
^ ab"Montfort Family | French lords". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
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