Simon De Monfort's rebellion

Question 1

Who was Simon De Monfort

Answer 1

• Earl of Leicester (Baron)
• Married to Henry III’s sister

Question 2

Religious causes of his rebellion

Answer 2

• Henry III was threatened with excommunication by pope, angering Barons

Question 3

Economic causes of his rebellion

Answer 3

• Taxation needed for war with France, angering Barons
• Taxation also needed to pay the pope to aid his wars

Question 4

Personal causes of his rebellion

Answer 4

• Simon helping fight the war in France, but criticised by the king for apparent mistreatment of people in France- feels attacked and unappreciated
• Henry didn’t pay him ‘Dowry’, and found upon return his land had big given elsewhere by Henry

Question 5

What is ‘Dowry’?

Answer 5

• Land/ money that should be payed to the husband by wife’s family upon marriage

Question 6

Political causes of the rebellion

Answer 6

• Henry’s French relatives helping him run country, angering some barons
• Henry disagrees with Magna Carta

Question 7

What were the provisions of Oxford

Answer 7

• Means king has to agree to 24 Barons helping him follow Magna Carta
• Foreign members of royal household banished

Question 8

Provisons of Oxford as a cause for rebellion

Answer 8

• Henry broke the terms, angering Barons and triggering the rebellion

Question 9

How did the rebels protest

Answer 9

• Simon De Montfort led a rebellion, causing second Barons war

Question 10

What happened at battle of Lewes 1264

Answer 10

Simon defeated Henry

Question 11

What does Simon do after defeating Henry

Answer 11

• Calls parliament in 1265, with Knights and burgesses from all over country
• gives more power to the people, instead of just king

Question 12

What happened to Simon in the end

Answer 12

• Many Barons felt he had taken too much power
  -Helped Henry in Battle of Evesham, 1265, where Simon was brutally killed

Question 13

Significance of his rebellion

Answer 13

• Was influential in the common man’s growth of power