Simon de St. Liz Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbia
- Born: Abt 1068, Normandy
- Marriage: Maud Countess of Huntingdon and Northumbria 141,1520
- Died: 1111, Priory of La Charité-sur-Loire, Bourgogne, France about age 43 141
 Another name for Simon was Simon de Senlis Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbia.141
General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 84:27, 130:26, married to Maud of Huntingdon, daughter of Judith of Lens, he was Earl of Huntingdon & Northampton, Crusader, son of Ranulph "the Rich," a Norman. 160
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 141
Simón was said to be the son of Ranulph, the Rich, a Norman. Simón likely came to England early in the reighn of William II. As the husband of Maud, daughter of Walheof and Judith, he became the Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton after 1086 or sometime before 1090.
Simón fought for William in Normandy in 1098, and was taken prisoner by Louis, son of the French King. When Henry I became king, he was witness to the charter of liberties issued by the King at his coronation in 1100. Simón built the Castle of Northampton and founded the Priory of St. Andrew.
Simón went to Jerusalem and returned safely. He set out again for Jerusalem, and died, 1111 or shortly afterwards, on the way at la Charité Priory, of which he was a benefactor.
The children of Simón and his wife Maud were Simón, the eldest son, who eventually became the earl of Huntingdon, St. Waltheof, who became the Abbot of melrose and died in 3 Aug 1150, and Maud, wife fo Robert Fitz Richard, son of Richard Fitz Gilbert, of Clare and Tunbridge, ancestor of the Fitz Walter family.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VI, (Huntington), pp. 640-641
• Background Information. 1520
The priory of St. Andrew, Northampton, was founded between 1093 and 1100 by Simon de St. Liz, earl of Northampton. According to an account given in the chartulary of the monastery [Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xvii. f. 1], Simon was the younger of two brothers\emdashstrenuissimi milites\emdash who accompanied the Conqueror to England in 1066. The elder, Garnerius le Ryche, on the death of their father returned to France to claim the paternal inheritance; Simon remained to take his chance as a soldier of fortune. On the disgrace and death of Waltheof, earl of Huntingdon, the king bestowed his eldest daughter Maud in marriage on the favourite together with the honour of Huntingdon [Dugdale, Baronage, i. 56, 58], and Simon de St. Liz became the first earl of Northampton of that name.
During the reign of Henry I. the earl of Northampton died on his homeward journey from the Holy Land at La Charité and was buried there. His heir, Simon the younger, was placed in the custody of David, brother of the king of Scotland, to whom the king granted the hand of the widowed countess. Both he and Simon the third earl were buried in the priory church [Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xvii. f. 9].
'Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of St Andrew, Northampton', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2, ed. R M Serjeantson and W R D Adkins (London, 1906), pp. 102-103
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Simón de Senlis.
Simon married Maud Countess of Huntingdon and Northumbria, daughter of Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon and Judith de Lens 141.,1520 (Maud Countess of Huntingdon and Northumbria was born in 1072, died in 1131 and was buried in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland.)
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