Guy de Montfort, Lord of Sidon
Guido de Montfort ( * before 1170, † January 31, 1228 ) was Lord of Castres, La Ferte- Alais and Bréthencourt, Crusader and Regent of the county Sidon.
He was a son of Simon ( IV ) of Montfort and Amice, sister of Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester. He was the younger brother of Simon IV de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester.
Guido took part in 1189 in the Third Crusade and probably remained until 1192 in the Holy Land, and Richard Lionheart traveled home.
To 1202 he was lord of La Ferté- Alais and Bréthencourt, in these dominions, which he inherited from his father, his stepfather Guillaume des Barres II had previously led the regency for him. In the same year he broke with his brother Simon in the Fourth Crusade. However, both rejected the diversion of the crusade against Christian towns. After the siege of Zara, in which they did not participate in the fighting, they left the crusade army and traveled instead via Hungary to the Holy Land. After their arrival in Jaffa, they participated in the campaign King Amalric II of Jerusalem to Tiberias.
Amalric thanked Guido his services by arranging his marriage with Helvis of Ibelin, Balian of Ibelin daughter, widow of Renaud Garnier and Countess of Sidon. Guido was Regent of Sidon, to his stepson Balian Garnier in 1210, came of age.
Guido later returned to the home and took 1212-1228 participated in several military campaigns of the Albigensian Crusade, which his brother Simon spearheaded. From him he received the located in the Languedoc Castres awarded as fief. At the siege of Toulouse in 1218, he was severely wounded by a crossbow bolt while his brother Simon was killed by a missile. Towards the end of 1224 Guido came as an envoy of the French King Louis VIII before Pope Honorius III. in appearance to the defeat of the beginning of the year, when the last Crusaders had to leave the Languedoc after the conquest of Carcassonne and the surrender of his nephew Amalric VII of Montfort, to discuss further action against the excommunicated Count Raymond VII of Toulouse and the Pope to prevent at this time contemplated recognition of the peace treaty between the houses Montfort and Toulouse. Guido himself came in the further course of the Crusade on January 31, 1228 in the defense of Vareilles near Pamiers against the Count of Foix to death. He was buried in Haute- Bruyère monastery.
Descendants
With his wife Helvis he had two children: Philip of Montfort († 1270), heir of Castres, La Ferte- Alais and Bréthencourt, who remained in the Holy Land, where Lord of Tyre and Lord of Toron was, and Pernelle of Montfort, the nun in the convent of Saint- Antoine des Champs in Paris.
At the latest in 1224 married Guido Briende Beynes, Lord of Lombers the widow of Lambert of Thury. With Briende he had two daughters and a son: Alicia and Agnes, who were both nuns at Port-Royal monastery, and Guido von Montfort († 1254 ), Lord of Lombers.