Amaury de Montfort (priest)

Amaury entered the priesthood as a young man, and held the positions of Treasurer of York Cathedral, canon of Rouen, Évreux, London and Lincoln.

Simon the younger died that year, reportedly of a tertian fever, while Amaury managed to appeal to the pope (with the aid of his father-in-law), resulting in his return to the church.

After requests from the Pope, Prince Llywelyn and Archbishop John Peckham of Canterbury, Amaury was released after swearing at London not to return to England unless invited by the king.

Upon his release in mid April 1282, Amaury returned to France, never again to see his sister, who died in childbirth that very year, mere months before the death of her husband Llewylyn and the annexation of North Wales to the English crown.

Amaury after some years renounced his clerical career and became a knight, apparently dying soon afterwards in Italy, possibly after 1301(citation/reference?