Her father held the titles Seigneur de Montfort-l'Amory in the Île-de-France, Count of Leicester (in England).
After the Albigensian Crusade in the south of France, Simon received the additional titles of Viscount of Carcassonne and Béziers, Sire of Albi and Razes, Count of Toulouse and Duke of Narbonne.
At first, Count de Montfort refused to let James go to Aragon, but Pope Innocent III, at the request of the Aragonese nobles, demanded that he give the boy to the papal legate Pietro di Mora.
[1] They had a daughter and a son:[1][6] In 1240, after the death of her husband, Amicie founded a Dominican abbey near the town of Montargie, located in Gatineau on the Loire River, 17 km from Chateaurenard.
Eleanor Plantagenet, the wife of Amicie's brother Simon V de Montfort, also entered this nunnery after her husband's death.