Amice de Beaumont 
Amice de was born about 1147 in Leicestershire, England. Amice de's father was Robert III de Beaumont , 3rd Earl of Leicester and her mother was Petronella de Grandmesnil. She had two brothers and a sister, named Robert IV de, William de and Margaret de. She was the oldest of the four children. She died on September 3rd, 1215.General Notes
On Leicester, Earldom of [Burke's Peerage, p. 1671]:
The 4th [Beaumont] Earl, who was also the fourth named Robert, accompanied Richard I on the Third Crusade but accomplished a smooth transfer of loyalty to John on the latter's succession in 1199. On his death without issue in 1204 the elder of his two sisters and coheirs, Amice, began calling herself Countess of Leicester. Her first husband was Simon de Montfort (roughly halfway between Paris and Chartres) and Rochefort, and her son by him, another Simon de Montfort, was being regarded as Earl of Leicester by the years 1205 or 1206, shortly after the death of his maternal uncle [Robert de Beaumont], the 4th Earl of whatever creation had occurred in or about 1102.
Amice de and Simon III Chauve de were married in a religious ceremony in 1165. They had a son named Simon IV de.
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Children
Simon IV de Montfort , Earl of Leicester
Simon IV de was born about 1165 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France. He died on June 25th, 1218 in Toulouse, France (Slain while besieging).
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