Baker Darren. With All for All: The Life of Simon de Montfort

Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 320 p.Simon de Montfort's combination of charisma, determination, and fearlessness made him one of the greatest men of his age. This new biography marks 750 years since Montfort established the earliest forerunner of our modern English parliament. Unlike Brutus, Simon de Montfort chose to fight it out to the end, with the same defiance that had always marked his difficulties with the Crown. In 1265 at Evesham, where it all came to an end, the man who would someday wear that crown was a warrior at heart, not an orator, and what, if anything, the future Edward I of England had to say about his fallen adversary has been lost to history.