Richard and Charlotte Allen Cosby Ancestry » Simon d'St. Liz Earl of Huntingdon Crusader I (± 1046-1111)

Personal data Simon d'St. Liz Earl of Huntingdon Crusader I 

• Alternative names: Simon I de Senlis Earl of Northampton, Simon I d'St. Liz
• He was born about 1046 in Normandy, France.
• He died in the year 1111 in Priory of La Charite-Sur-Loire, Rhone-Alpes, France.Sources 1, 4
• A child of Ranulph de Briquessart de Bayeaux, and Judith

Household of Simon d'St. Liz Earl of Huntingdon Crusader I

He is married to Matilda (Maud} de Huntingdon,.

They got married at Huntingdonshire, England.

Child(ren):

1. Lady Matilda (Maud) de St. Liz-Senlis,  1096-1140 
2. Simon de St. Liz de St. Elizabeth  > 1103-1153 

Notes about Simon d'St. Liz Earl of Huntingdon Crusader I

on the history of the Earldom of Huntingdon:ransition a natural one under the terms prevailing then. Indeed the history of the Earldom over the next few decades amply illustrates the almost chattel-like nature of such a title at this time, a quasi-hereditary post which was nevertheless as often as not held from the king at pleasure and which could be transferred between members of the same family like a parcel of land. [Burke's Peerage]y in the reign of William II. Presumably in consequence of his mariiage, he became EARL of HUNTINGDON and NORTHAMPTON after 1086 (for he is not named in Domesday Book) and in or before 1090, when he witnessed a charter to Bath Abbey as "Earl Simon." He witnessed another royal charter under the same designation a little later. He fought for William in Normandy in 1098, and was taken prisoner by Louis, son of the French King. On the accession of Henry I in 1100 he witnessed the charter of liberties issued by the King at his Coronation. He built the Castle of Northampton and founded or refounded the Priory of St. Andrew in that town, and made it dependent on the Cluniac house of La Charité-sur-Loire; this was probably in the time of William Rufus, but certainly before 1108, when he granted an ample charter to it in conjunction with Maud his wife. He was a benefactor also to Daventry Priory, and probably built St. Sepulchre's, Northampton, about this time. He went to Jerusalem cruce signatus, and returned safely, but setting out again he died on the way at the abovenamed Priory of La Charité, and was buried there.t 18, Maud, eldest daughter of Waltheof, EARL OF HUNTINGDON and NORTHAMPTON, by Judith, niece of William I. He died, as aforesaid, at La Charité presumably in 1111 or shortly afterwards. His widow married DAVID I of Scotland. [Complete Peerage VI:640-1, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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