Montfort was about himself and used the barons as tools
And he betrayed Henry who had taken him in
He’s no hero....not to me anyhow
Who started this notion I wonder
I’ll have to see how Churchill treats him in my HOTESP volumes
There were not a lot of altruistic barons around in the 1300s. :)
Best you could realistically hope for was a baron who was “honorable,” which did not at all inhibit him from a great deal of behavior we would today find appalling.