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Colloque international, Jeudi-vendredi, 3-4 mai 2018, CESCM, 24 rue de la Cha&#238;ne, PoitiersArgumentThe career of Simon of Montfort encompassed the entirety of Western Europe&#8212;as well as the Levantine crusade&#8212;at the turn of the thirteenth century.&#160; Born and raised in the orbit of the French royal court at Paris, he inherited and was dispossessed of an English earldom and the royal stewardship.&#160; Moreover, he twice took the cross: first to the Holy Land on the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, where he publicly dissented from the diversion to Constantinople, and later against the heretics in the Midi, where he established a semi-independent crusader principality.&#160; All this came to an end with his death before the walls of Toulouse eight hundred years ago, yet his life did not fail to leave a mark on his contemporaries nor on posterity.&#160; Most of Christendom hailed him as a pious hero, an ideal miles Christi, both during his lifetime and after his supposed martyrdom, struggling against heretical depravity.&#160; However, in the Midi and Spain his reputation was frequently that of a brigand, a barbarian, a greedy and unscrupulous foreign interloper.&#160; The latter judgement, with some exceptions, has largely been his legacy since the nineteenth century.&#160; But the Simon of Montfort that this conference will seek to discuss is a man of contradictions: the principled crusader to the East who mutilated a defeated garrison in the Languedoc, the victor over the king of Aragon who voluntarily submitted his conquests to the king of France, the man who despoiled legitimate lords in the south while providing legal protections for widows and clergy.&#160; This conference will centre on studying Simon both as a product of his time and an agent who helped to form it, an actor in his lifetime and a cipher for posterity, the successor to a dynasty and the origin of inheritances across Europe, a conqueror and a failure.ProgrammeJeudi 3 mai, de 9 &#224; 12 heuresMartin Aurell, Gregory Lippiatt, Laurent Mac&#233;, &#171;&#160;Introduction&#160;&#187;Simon et la croisade albigeoiseJean-Louis Biget, &#201;cole Normale Sup&#233;rieure, &#171;&#160;Tenir le pays&#160;: Montfort entre villes et ch&#226;teaux d&#8217;Occitanie&#160;&#187;Gregory Lippiatt, University of East Anglia (Norwich)-CESCM, &#171;&#160;The Statutes of Pamiers: Simon and Baronial Reform in Early Thirteenth-Century Europe&#160;&#187;Mart&#237;n Alvira, Universidad complutense de Madrid, &#171;&#160;Simon et Pierre II d&#8217;Aragon&#160;: faits et m&#233;moire&#160;&#187;Damian Smith, Saint Louis University (Missouri), &#171;&#160;James I of Aragon, Simon and the Papacy (1211-1218)&#160;&#187;Jeudi 3 mai, de 14 &#224; 18 heuresSimon&#160;: le baron, ses hommes et ses repr&#233;sentationsChristine Chana Keck, Universit&#233; de Frankfort, &#171;&#160;L&#8217;entourage de Simon&#160;&#187;Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia (Norwich), &#171;&#160;Simon as Earl of Leicester&#160;&#187;Laurent Mac&#233;, Universit&#233; de Toulouse-Jean Jaur&#232;s, &#171;&#160;Princeps et monarcha&#160;: le sceau de majest&#233; de Simon (1216-1218)&#160;&#187;Daniel Power, University of Swansea, &#171;&#160;La croisade albigeoise apr&#232;s Simon (1218-1224)&#160;&#187;Vendredi 4 mai, de 9 &#224; 12 heuresLes fils de Simon, la Gascogne et l&#8217;AngleterreLindy Grant, University of Reading, &#171;&#160;Amaury V (d. 1241), his Siblings, and the Capetians&#160;&#187;Sophie Ambler, University of Lancaster, &#171;&#160;Simon VI (&#8224;1265) and Montfortian Identity&#160;&#187;Amicie P&#233;lissi&#233; du Rausas, Universit&#233; de Poitiers-CESCM, &#171;&#160;Le gouvernement de Simon VI en Gascogne (1248-1252)&#160;&#187;Rodolphe Billaud, University of Canterbury, &#171;&#160;Simon VI et l&#8217;occupation du comt&#233; de Chester (1264-1265)&#160;&#187;Vendredi 4 mai, de 14 &#224; 17 heuresLa culture des MontfortCatalina Girbea, Universit&#233; de Bucarest-CESCM, &#171;&#160;Les Montfort d&#8217;Italie, commanditaires de manuscrits arthuriens&#160;&#187;Bj&#246;rn Weiler, University of Abersystwyth, &#171;&#160;Mathew Paris and the Montfort Family&#160;&#187;Alexis Charansonnet, Universit&#233; de Lyon II, &#171;&#160;Saints ou d&#233;mons ? L'image posthume des Montfort au XIIIe si&#232;cle&#160;&#187;Martin Aurell, Universit&#233; de Poitiers-CESCM, &#171;&#160;Conclusions&#160;&#187;