Count Amaury Montfort EVREUX, III ¹

   Other names for Amaury were Almarie, EVREUX Count, Almaricus and EVERAUX.

   Ancestral File Number: PXX6-LG.

   General Notes:

Count of EVREUX.

BOOKS
The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch XV
p328: "...Before the close of this year, 1176, Henry arranged for another marriage to provide for his youngest son John, now ten years old...The inheritance which his father had now in mind was that of the great Earl Robert of Gloucester, brother and supporter of the Empress Matilda, his father's mother. Robert's son William had only daughters. Of these two were already married, Mabel to Amaury, Count of Evreux, and Amice to Richard of Clare, Earl of Hertford. Henry undertook to provide for these by pensions on the understanding that all the lands of the earldom should go to John on his marriage with the youngest daughter Isabel. To this plan Earl William agreed. The marriage itself did not take place until after the death of King Henry."

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol II, The Magnificent Century, Thomas B Costain, 1951, Doubleday & Co
p186: "Simon de Montfort was a Norman. The family name was derived from a small castle called Montfort l' Amauri in the lower corner of the duchy, but the importance of his ancestors was far greater than this might suggest. They traced descent back to Charles the Bald, and one of the warrior counts (all the Montforts were great fighting men) had married an heiress of Evreux with wide possessions as well as illustrious connections..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 GQPN-28 Almarie< Amaury MONTFORT Mar DeBEAUMONT.

Ancestral File Ver 4.10 PXX6-LG Amaury De MONTFORT [?III] Born Abt 1122 Of Montfort Eure France Son of Amaury DeMONTFORT [?II] (AFN:8XQ3-G9) and Great Grandson of Amaury De MONTFORT [?I] (AFN:9HMR-GV).

FAMILY SEARCH ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File v4.19 PXX6-LG: Born 1122-1125 Montfort-Sur-Risle Eure France, Died SP.

   Marriage Information:

Amaury married BEAUMONT, daughter of Count Robert De Beaumont MEULAN, I and Countess Isabel De Vermandois SURREY. (BEAUMONT was born about 1110 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.)