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- For several years in the reign of King Henry III, this feudal lord tookan active part in the wars of that monarch, but at length, on thebreaking out of the barons' insurrection, he became one of the mostzealous amongst those turbulent lords and, after the battle of Lewes, wasof the nine nominated to rule the kingdom, in which station he enjoyedand exercised more than regal power, but of short duration, for he fellat the subsequent conflict of Evesham, so disastrous to the baronialcause. Peter de Montfort m. Alice, dau. of Henry de Aldithley, a greatStaffordshire baron, and had issue, Peter, his successor; William, who bygift of his father had the manor of Uppingham, co. Rutland; Robert, whohad lands also in the co. Rutland. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England,1883, p. 377, Montfort, Barons Montfort]
For several years in the reign of King Henry III, this feudal lord tookan active part in the wars of that monarch, but at length, on thebreaking out of the barons' insurrection, he became one of the mostzealous amongst those turbulent lords and, after the battle of Lewes, wasof the nine nominated to rule the kingdom, in which station he enjoyedand exercised more than regal power, but of short duration, for he fellat the subsequent conflict of Evesham, so disastrous to the baronialcause. Peter de Montfort m. Alice, dau. of Henry de Aldithley, a greatStaffordshire baron, and had issue, Peter, his successor; William, who bygift of his father had the manor of Uppingham, co. Rutland; Robert, whohad lands also in the co. Rutland. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England,1883, p. 377, Montfort, Barons Montfort]
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