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Simon de Montfort’s medieval revolution

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Historian Sophie Ambler chronicles the dramatic life of Simon de Montfort, the 13th-century rebel who battled Henry III for mastery in England and established a revolutionary form of government. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Ellie Callthorne. On today's podcast, we've got a conversation about the influential

1:00.8

medieval nobleman with historian Sophie Ambler. Sophie's recent book, The Song of Simon

1:08.1

Demontfort, explores how the crusading 13th century Earl led England's

1:13.1

First Revolution. Our section editor, John Borkham, spoke to Sophie at our History Weekend

1:18.9

event in Chester this October to find out more. So Sophie, many Britons are probably familiar

1:24.5

with the name Simon Demontfort, but don't necessarily know

1:27.9

much about him and what it was he actually did. To begin, I just wondered whether we could go back

1:32.9

to the very start of the story. What is Simon's family background? Where is he born? So Simon

1:39.6

De Montfort was from a noble family who had their lands just outside of Paris.

1:44.5

He was born in the early 1200s into a family that was to become very famous in the early 13th

1:52.4

century because his father, Simon the Elder, was leader of the Aborigincian Crusade.

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