Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III.
It is a tale of.
This is his story, and the story of Henry III, as weak and changeable as Simon was brash and unbending.
A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the king\'s incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people.
Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III