Earl Simon I De St. Liz^[1]

Abt 1046 - 1111  (65 years)

• Name	Simon I De St. Liz
  Prefix	Earl
  Birth	Abt 1046	Normandy, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	1111	Priory Of La Charite-Sur-Loir, Nievre, France   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I71007	Cecilie Family
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	Ranulph "The Rich" De St. Liz,   b. Abt 1018, Normandy, France d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Judith,   b. Abt 1023   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F31414	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud Of Huntingdon   d. 1130-1131
  Marriage	Abt 1090	Huntingdonshire, England   [2, 4]
  Children	1. Maud De St. Liz,   b. 1093, Tunbridge, Kent, England d. Between 1158 and 1163, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F31170	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2009

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1046 - Normandy, France Death - 1111 - Priory Of La Charite-Sur-Loir, Nievre, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  on the history of the Earldom of Huntingdon: His [Waltheof's] son-in-law Simon de St Liz was the next holder of the Earldom [of Huntingdon], the family connections of Simon's wife Maud making the transition 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] ------------------------ EARLDOM OF NORTHAMPTON (II, 1) EARLDOM OF HUNTINGDON (II) SIMON DE ST. LIZ, said to be a son of Ranulph the Rich, a Norman, appears to have come to England early 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 Charit

  
  

• Sources

  [S1328] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Verlag, 1980-), 3:701B (Reliability: 3). [S1631] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th, 148-24 (Reliability: 3). [S1634] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great, VI:640-1 (Reliability: 3). [S1634] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great, VI:641 (Reliability: 3).