Montfort’s body was mutilated in a frenzy by the royalists. News reached the mayor and sheriffs of London that “the head of the earl of Leicester … was severed from his body, and his testicles cut off and hung on either side of his nose”
The 6th Earl of Leicester was responsible for ethnic cleansing of English Jews, and his father depicted here had a key role in slaughtering the Cathars in Languedoc as you’ve mentioned in the title, so maybe what goes around comes around?
This illustration is of the previous Simon de Montfort - that one’s father. Bad luck would seem to run in the family.
The 6th Earl of Leicester was responsible for ethnic cleansing of English Jews, and his father depicted here had a key role in slaughtering the Cathars in Languedoc as you’ve mentioned in the title, so maybe what goes around comes around?
Damn! I was actually gonna ask about that because the wikipedia said he died by getting stabbed in the neck. Bad luck is right.