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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

The 13th century nobleman Simon de Montfort has gone down in history for two main reasons.

Number one, that he was the first leader of a political movement in English

history that sought to overthrow the monarchy, in his case King Henry III, in favour of a different

system, and two, that his body was horribly dismembered after his defeat at the Battle of Evesham

in 1265. Today, we're going to focus at the Battle of Evesham in 1265.

Today, we're going to focus on the second of those two points.

Not only were De Montfort's head and testicles sent to the wife of one of his killers,

but his butchered hands and feet were also spread far and wide across Britain.

Historian Sophie Therese Ambler explains to David Musgrove why De Montfort met such a grisly end and what it tells us about the politics of medieval England and Britain.

I'm with Dr Sophie Ambler and we are discussing what happened to the body of Simon De Montfort

after his defeat at the Battle of Evesham on the 4th of August 1265. So this podcast will have

some gruesome elements to it be warmed. Sophie, in brief, what happened to Simon de Montfort's

body after the Battle of Evesham? Well, his body was seized upon by

the death squad of men who were responsible for killing him. So this was barons of the Anglo-Welish

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