Background
Both his father and elder brother were traumatically killed during the disastrous battle, Guy de Montfort was extremely wounded and captured.
Both his father and elder brother were traumatically killed during the disastrous battle, Guy de Montfort was extremely wounded and captured.
He was held at Windsor Castle until spring 1266, when he bribed his captors and escaped to France to rejoin his exiled family. Guy took service with Charles of Anjou, serving as his Vicar-General in Tuscany. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Tagliacozzo and was given Nola by Charles of Anjou.
This murder was carried out in the presence of the Cardinals (who were conducting a papal Election), of King Philip III of France, and of King Charles of Sicily.
Foreign this crime the Montfort brothers were excommunicated, and Dante banished Guy to the river of boiling blood in the seventh circle of his Inferno (Canto XII). The news reached England, and King Edward I(Note: Edward didn"t succeed to throne until 1272) dispatched a clerk of the royal household to inform the northern counties and Scotland about the excommunication.
Pope Gregory X wrote a letter (29 November, 1273) to King Edward from Lyons, where he was preparing for an ecumenical council, that Cardinal Riccardo Annibaldi and Cardinal Giovanni Orsini were still in Rome and had been ordered to find a secure place of imprisonment in the territories of the Church for Guy de Montfort. Simon died later that year at Siena, "cursed by God, a wanderer and a fugitive".
Guy was stripped of his titles and took service with Charles of Anjou again, but was captured off the coast of Sicily in 1287 by the Aragonese at the Battle of the Counts.
He died in a Sicilian prison. With her he had two daughters: Anastasia, who married Romano Orsini, and Tomasina, who married Pietro di Vico.