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Definition of Montfort
1. Noun. An English nobleman who led the baronial rebellion against Henry III (1208-1265).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Montfort
Literary usage of Montfort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"I wiih now to return to Ihe Countess of Montfort, who possessed the courage of
a mm and the heart of a Inn THE age of knight errantry, as we read of it, ..."
2. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"With his wonted ability de Montfort made use of his reinforcements to extend his
... The jealous citizens would not allow de Montfort to enter the town, ..."
3. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"... Wolkenstein (1367- Hugo von Montfort, '357-1443- 1445)- In the poetry of Hugo
von Montfort,1 whose castle was situated near Bregenz in the Vorarlberg, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"Simon Montfort, Earl of Leicester, the founder of the English House Commons, has
had no biographer. The vicissitudes of his fame have, by a rare chance, ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of by Robert Chambers (1844)
"The tragedies of Count Basil and De Montfort are among tho liest of Miss ...
[Scene from De Montfort.] [Do Montfort explains to his sister Jane his hatred ..."
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