six hundred other prisoners. He spent the next 18 months in the dungeons of Cairo where he was treated more severely than the other prisoners because he would not tell the sultan who were the other prisoners. He was freed on 23 April 1241, along with other French prisoners, after the crusaders under Richard of Cornwall and the sultan of Egypt have concluded an alliance against the sultan of Damascus. He died in Otranto later the same year on his way home and was buried, at the Pope's order, in St. Peter's Basilica; his heart, according to his own wish at his death, was brought to the Abbey of Haute-Bruyère near Montfort-l'Amaury where Aubry Le Cornu, bishop of Chartres, enclosed it in an effigy. Marriage and issue Amaury was married to Beatrix, daughter of Guigues VI of Viennois, and was the father of: Jean (John) I (d. 1249), married to Jeanne (Johanna), Lady of Châteaudun Marguerite (Margaret) (d. 1289 or 1290), married to John III, Count of Soissons Laure (Laura) (d. 1270), married to Fernando (Ferdinand) II, Count of Aumale (1239–1260) Adela (or Alix) (1230 – 28 March 1279), married to Simon of Nesle (1220–1288) Pernelle (d. 5 December 1275), abbess of Port-Royal-des-Champs Gallery References Sources External links 1192 births 1241 deaths Amaury VI of Montfort People of the Albigensian Crusade Christians of the Barons' Crusade Constables of France