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Simon de Montfort

Son of a French nobleman and crusader, he led the barons' rebellion against King Henry III of England during the Second Barons' War of 1263-4 and subsequently became de facto ruler of England.  De Monfort called the first directly elected parliament in Medieval Europe.

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