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Male Simon de Montfort VI Click to view Simon de Montfort VI in the family tree

Simon was born in July 1238 in Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England.1   Simon's father was Earl of Leicester Simon de Montfort V and his mother was Princess of England Eleanor Plantagenet.  His paternal grandparents were Earl of Leicester Simon de Montfort (L'Amaury) IV and Alice de Montmorency; his maternal grandparents were King of England John (Lackland) Plantagenet of England and Isabella De Taillefer of Angouleme. He had four brothers and three sisters, named Henry, Guy, Amaury, Richard, Joanna, Eleanor and Isabel.  He was the second oldest of the eight children.

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michaelrneuman&id=I023340

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