Feudal Fiefs and Houses
- the French noble house of Montfort-l'Amaury, extinct in the 14th century
- Montfort of Brittany, descendants in the female line, reigning house of the Duchy of Brittany in the 14th and 15th centuries
- Counts of Montfort, German noble dynasty in medieval Swabia
- Baron Montfort, English peerage 1295–1367, British peerage 1741–1851
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