Philip II of Montfort, Lord of Castres

Philip II of Montfort (1225–1270) was a French nobleman, the son of Philip I of Montfort, lord of Tyre. He joined Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily and shared command of the first battalion at the Battle of Benevento in 1266.

Afterwards he protected the Papal States with his forces, then led Angevin troops into Sicily and crushed the revolt that ended in the sack of Augusta. Created count of Squillace, he inherited Castres on his father's death in March 1270, then joined Louis IX's Eighth Crusade and died at Tunis on 24 September 1270.