Alix_de_Montmorency

Alix de Montmorency

Alix de Montmorency

French noblewoman


Alix de Montmorency (died 24 February 1220/1221) was a French noblewoman. Her parents were Bouchard V de Montmorency and Laurette,[1] daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut and Alice of Namur.

Life

In 1190 Alix married Simon de Montfort (c. 1175 – 25 June 1218),[1] who later became the 5th Earl of Leicester. She accompanied her husband on his campaigns during the Albigensian Crusade and like her husband, she was very pious. Both of them had come under the influence of Fulk of Neuilly and they were patrons of the Dominican Order.[2]

Albigensian Crusade

Alix participated in the councils of the crusaders and recruited reinforcements in France. In 1217, she imprisoned the Jews in Toulouse.[3] She went to the French court with Folquet de Marselha to plead for support, but she was nearby when her husband was killed as he besieged Toulouse. After this she returned to her family's estates near Paris.[4]

Issue

Alix and Simon had among others:


References

Sources

  • Baldwin, John W. (2019). Knights, Lords, and Ladies: In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 1180-1220. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Maddicott, John Robert (1994). Simon de Montfort. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jonathan Sumption, The Albigensian Crusade, 2000

See also


Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Alix_de_Montmorency, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.