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[ADMIRALTY S.W.]

Counts of Anjou, and the de Montfort's (of Montfort
l' Amauri). Fulk of Anjou had two sons, Geoffrey Plantagenet
the eldest, father of Henry II, and Amery, the first crusading
King of Jerusalem to be actually born in the Holy Land. This
Amery was an adventurous spirit and made a most sporting, and
for a few months successful, attempt to annex Egypt. His
daughter married Amery de Lusignan. who figures in history
as Amery II of Jerusalem and as Amery I King of Cyprus,
ancestor of a long line of Lusignan Kings of Cyprus,
including one or two more Amerys. Both the Amerys of
Jerusalem and several of the Kings of Cyprus seem to have
been men of character, political sense, and lovers of
history, law and learning generally.

To come back West, Simon IV of Montfort l' Amauri,
the great persecutor of the Albigeneses, has an eldest
son Amery or Amauri who, like your Aimery in "Eyes of
Youth", was a student and an ardent crusader. (handwritten line above)He was Constable of France and died on crusade in 1239.
His younger brother Simon de Montfort had some little say
in starting that respectable institution, the Mother of
Parliaments. Another Amery of that time, Amery of Bens,
near Chartres, was a distinguished theologian, and held the
only true faith, viz., the pantheism afterwards associated