Abstract
Between the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170 and the defeat and death of Simon de Montfort in 1265, few saints appeared in England who had not been royal opponents. Moreover, many prominent churchmen cooperated to oppose royal authority in life and to promote each other’s saint’s cults after death. Their communion of saints existed in tension with Rome. Reforms of the standards of sanctity and miracles progressively reserved the authority to recognize saints to king and pope. Despite the fact that de Montfort was a layman, his career as a crusader and his popular rebellion against perceived royal and papal abuses of power simultaneously established him as a saint in this English tradition and ensured that his sanctity would never receive official sanction. This article establishes the normalcy of the cult of St. Simon de Montfort within its period and place.
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