Another theory identifies him with the historical outlaw Roger Godberd, who was a die-hard supporter of Simon de Montfort, which would place Robin Hood around the 1260s.

It is said that de Montfort was reluctant to approve the oligarchical constitution created by the Provisions of Oxford, but there is better ground for believing that he disliked the narrow class-spirit of the victorious Barons, and that he would have preferred to make a compromise with the moderate royalists whose policy was guided by Prince Edward.

# Eleanor ( 1215 – 1275 ), who would marry firstly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke ; and secondly Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, by whom she had issue.

This put Montfort in a position of ultimate power, which would last until Prince Edward's escape, and Montfort's subsequent defeat at the Battle of Evesham in August 1265.

As Penman explains: '“ After I ’ d finished Here Be Dragons, I knew I wanted to continue the story .... At first I ’ d planned to write one book in which Simon de Montfort would share top billing with Llewelyn Fawr ’ s grandson, Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, who later wed Simon ’ s daughter.

At Lewes, we actually walked along the same path that Simon de Montfort and his men would have followed.

Under the Treaties of Guerande semi-Salic succession was agreed under which, if the reigning member of the House of Montfort died without legitimate male issue, the eldest direct legitimate male descendant of Joanna of Penthièvre would inherit the Ducal crown of Brittany.

The difficulties of the House of Montfort would continue when John VI, Duke of Brittany succeeded his father.

That Francis II's sole heir was his daughter Anne assured an inheritance contest on his death that would pit the power of the House of Montfort against conflicting treaty obligations to the House of Penthièvre in Brittany and the House of Valois in France, and would also be a test of the Breton tradition of semi-Salic law in which a daughter could be the principal inheritor.

When this failed, he tried to ensure that John of Montfort would never inherit the duchy.

John VI the Wise ( in Breton, Yann V ar Fur, in French this would be Jean VI but French accounting, influenced by the French view of the Breton War of Succession, makes him Jean V le Sage ) ( 24 December 1389 – 29 August 1442 ), was duke of Brittany, count of Montfort, and titular earl of Richmond, from 1399 to his death.

The Tory government asserted that francophone access to medical service would be fully available at the bilingual Ottawa Hospital and that the 200 bed Montfort was too small to operate efficiently.

In April the government backed down and floated a new plan that would see the Montfort building closed, but the hospital continuing as an independent francophone entity within the General.

The Montfort would remain open but it would only treat out patients and would be reduced to 66 beds.

In 1241 he was probably responsible for drafting a compromise between the Ibelins and the emperor, in which Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester would govern the kingdom.

This meant that two chantry priests would say daily mass in black robes bearing the Montacute and Montfort coats of arms.

On 9 August 1239, Henry is reported to have confronted Montfort, called him an excommunicant and threatened to imprison him in the Tower of London.

When de Montfort realised the truth, he said " May God have mercy on our souls because our bodies are theirs.

Though only Eleanor de Montfort can be definitively shown to have used the title, several consorts of native Welsh princes of Wales were theoretically princesses of Wales while their husbands were on the throne.

For the next year, any order Henry III gave could have been countermanded by de Montfort, until his defeat at the Battle of Evesham.

The two universities have launched various initiatives, including a scholarship programme for De Montfort students and doctoral study coupled with English language tuition for students from Nanjing.

Several research institutions and buildings have been named in his honor, including: the Norman E. Borlaug Center for Farmer Training and Education, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in 1983 ; Borlaug Hall, on the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota in 1985 ; Borlaug Building at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center ( CIMMYT ) headquarters in 1986 ; the Norman Borlaug Institute for Plant Science Research at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom in 1997 ; and the Norman E. Borlaug Center for Southern Crop Improvement, at Texas A & M University in 1999.

In this " Jean de Bourgogne, dit a la Barbe ", is said to have revealed himself on his deathbed to d ' Oultremouse, whom he made his executor, and to have described himself in his will as " messire Jean de Mandeville, chevalier, comte de Montfort en Angleterre et seigneur de l ' isle de Campdi et du château Pérouse ( Lord Jean de Mandeville, knight, Count de Montfort in England and lord of the Isle of Campdi and the Perugia castle )".

Old warehouses have also been converted into student accommodation for De Montfort University increasing the value of the area.

There were many ancient manors within the parish border, and in addition to Odo, King Henry I of England, King Henry VIII of England, and Simon de Montfort have all at one time owned property in the parish.

However, Phillip claimed full rights over the lands of the house of St Gilles and some have seen his dispatch of de Montfort and other northern barons as at the very least an exploratory campaign to reassert the rights of the French crown in Le Midi.

Meanwhile the nephew of Guy, Peter de Vaux de Cernay, arguably a stool-pigeon of De Montfort, his uncle and the papacy, wrote an account of the crusade which many have seen as a transparent piece of propaganda to justify the actions of the crusaders, whose outrages are described consistently as doing the work of God against the heretical agents of the demonic power-while outrages committed by the embattled lords of the Midi are predictably portrayed as the opposite.

A confined Llywelyn appears to have put all of his hopes into stabilising the succession through children sired by his new wife Eleanor de Montfort.

Various universities have awarded him honorary doctorates: De Montfort, Suffolk College at the University of East Anglia, Nottingham, Dundee, Southampton, St Andrews, and Leeds.

Most of the nobility supported Charles of Blois, so if John of Montfort was to have any chance, he was dependent upon swift action before organized resistance could be made.

Her romance and marriage to Simon de Montfort are very much romanticized in this novel, especially since in real life Simon is killed the year following the Battle of Lewes and the pair had already had all 7 of their children ; in the book, Eleanor and Simon have only just had their first two sons.

Men of Hailsham may have taken part in the important battle of Lewes in 1264 when Simon de Montfort ’ s victory resulted in the establishment of the first principles of parliamentary representation.

The historical Simon de Montfort on whom the character in Burroughs ' novel was based did have a daughter, but her name was Eleanor, not Bertrade.

He appears also to have been the author of Petit vocabulaire à l ' usage des Français et des Alliés, renfermant les noms d ' une partie des choses les plus essentielles à la vie en plusieurs langues: français, Latin, hébreu, hollandais, allemand, anglais, espagnol, italien, etc par M. Denys de Montfort, which appeared in 1815, as Paris filled with the polyglot armies of the Allies, after the fall of Napoleon in 1814.

* 1275 – Eleanor de Montfort is captured by pirates in the employ of Edward I of England to prevent her marriage to Llywelyn the Last, prince of Wales ; she is used as a bargaining chip over the coming years in Edward's attempts to subjugate Llywelyn and Wales.

* Eleanor de Montfort is captured by pirates in the employ of Edward I of England to prevent her marriage to Llywelyn the Last, prince of Wales ; she is used as a bargaining chip over the coming years in Edward's attempts to subjugate Llywelyn and Wales.

The king evidently had not approved this, and was enraged when he discovered that Montfort had used his name.

De Montfort used his victory to set up the government on which his reputation as a statesman stands or falls.

One definition comes from Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort in The New Media Reader, " The term " Happening " has been used to describe many performances and events, organized by Allan Kaprow and others during the 1950s and 1960s, including a number of theatrical productions that were traditionally scripted and invited only limited audience interaction.

Born in Bishop Auckland, Soulsby attended the Minchenden School ( a grammar school, which merged with Arnos School in 1984 to become Broomfield School although the former building is now used by Southgate College ) on High Street in Southgate London, and then he studied at the City of Leicester College of Education in Scraptoft ( part of Scraptoft Hall, which later was to become the Scraptoft Campus of De Montfort University until its closure in 2003 ) where he gained a BEd.

Late in the year, Bridie and Montfort recorded the soundtrack for the film Hammers Over the Anvil, they used Jen Anderson on violin ( ex-The Black Sorrows ) and the horn section from Hunters & Collectors.

The Hall and its grounds were for many years used as a campus of De Montfort University and its predecessors, but this facility was closed in 2003.