<page_title> List of Speakers of the House of Commons of England </page_title> <section_title> List of Parlours or Prolocutors before 1377 </section_title> <table> <cell> First English Parliament, 11 June 1258 <col_header> Parliament </col_header> </cell> <cell> Peter de Montfort <col_header> Presiding Officer </col_header> </cell> <cell> first identified presiding officer of the English House of Commons, styled prolocutor <col_header> Notes </col_header> </cell> </table>
Peter de Montfort was the first person to preside over Parliament as a parlour or prolocutor, an office now known as Speaker of the House of Commons.