Simon de Montfort (Dr Sophie Thérèse Ambler)

Rex Factor

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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In this week's podcast we talk all things Simon de Montfort with Dr Sophie Thérèse Ambler. Simon de Montfort led a remarkable and dramatic life, most notably with the Second Barons War in the reign of Henry III, where Simon was effectively ruling England and making major advances in the cause of parliamentary democracy. He's often featured as a side character in Rex Factor, so today we go in depth in finding out who Simon was, what motivated him, why he rebelled against Henry and much more. If you want to find out more, be sure to buy Sophie's excellent book, The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary. You can also find her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RG1253 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor!
0:10.0	This week, Simon to Montfort!
0:19.0	With your host, Graham June, and Ali Boone.
0:26.0	So we are joined on the podcast today by Dr Sophie Torres Ambla.
0:32.0	So Sophie, thank you very much for joining us on the podcast.
0:35.0	Absolutely delighted, thanks for having me.
0:38.0	And Sophie said to talk about her brilliant book,
0:41.0	The Song of Simon to Montfort England's First Revolutionary.
0:45.0	Simon to Montfort, someone that we've talked about on the podcast
0:48.0	in, well, the first and third series, actually,
0:50.0	a big part of the story for Henry III,
0:52.0	Eleanor of Provence, Edward the First, and to a certain extent,
0:55.0	Eleanor of Castile.
0:56.0	But he's always been a sort of a side character with all of this.
1:00.0	I guess, kind of, the baddie from the respect of the people that we're studying.
1:04.0	So we thought it would be really interesting to talk about him
1:07.0	as the subject of the episode.
1:10.0	Find a bit more about him, second-barren's war, about his revolution
1:14.0	and significance of that, and maybe slightly change our perception
1:18.0	on some of the people involved that we've done before,
1:20.0	such as Edward the First.
1:22.0	It's going to be a tough sell.
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