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Male Henry de Montfort Click to view Henry de Montfort in the family tree

Henry was born in 1237 in Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England.1   Henry'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 Simon, Guy, Amaury, Richard, Joanna, Eleanor and Isabel.  He was the 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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