Amaury III (died c. 1191) was the

Count of Évreux The Count of Évreux was a French noble title and was named for the county of Évreux in Normandy. It was successively used by the Norman dynasty, the Montfort-l'Amaury family, the Capetians as well as the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. The title is ...

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

from 1181 until his death.Daniel Power, "The End of Angevin Normandy: The Revolt at Alençon (1203)", ''Historical Research'', 74, 186 (2001): 444–464. He belonged to the elder line of the

Montfort family House of Montfort was a medieval French people, French List of noble houses, noble house that eventually found its way to the Kingdom of England and originated the famous Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; although his father Simon de Montf ...

,Daniel Power, ''The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 63, 216, 294–295, 332 and 498. and is sometimes known as Amaury V de Montfort. Amaury was the eldest son of Simon III, lord of

Montfort-l'Amaury Montfort-l'Amaury () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region, north central France. It is located north of Rambouillet. The name comes from Amaury I de Montfort, the first ''seigneur'' (lord) of Montfort. Geogra ...

and count of Évreux, and his wife Matilda. On Simon's death in 1181, the Montfort inheritance was divided. Amaury retained the county of Évreux and lands in

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, but his younger brother Simon (IV) inherited Montfort in

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. Amaury was also related by marriage to

Saher de Quincy Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester (c. 11553 November 1219) was one of the leaders of the baronial rebellion against John, King of England, and a major figure in both the kingdoms of Scotland and England in the decades around the turn of the ...

, who was in Évreux in 1181 to witness an act of Amaury's.Melissa A. Pollock, ''Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204–1296: ‘Auld Amitie’'' (Boydell, 2015), p. 43. Amaury married Mabel, the eldest daughter and heiress of William fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Hawise de Beaumont. They had a son, Amaury IV (VI). Although Amaury had a clear claim to the earldom after William's death in 1183, it was occupied by King Henry II. Likewise, there is no evidence that any of William's men ever attached themselves to Amaury's retinue so long as the earldom was controlled by the king. Amaury died on the

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sometime between 1187 and 1193, probably in 1191. The obituary of the

Cathedral of Évreux A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denomination ...

mentions his death right after his father's under March 13 without naming the year, specifying that he left the church forty ''

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''.''Rerum Gallicarum et Francicarum Scriptires'', tomus XXIII, Ex Obituario ecclesiæ Ebroicensis, p. 461
/ref> His son Amaury was still a minor at his accession and seems never to have actually ruled in Évreux, which was seized by

Philip II of France Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), byname Philip Augustus (french: Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks, but from 1190 onward, Philip became the first French ...

in 1199. He did, however, make good on his mother's claim to Gloucester, which his father never had.

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