Simon de Kyme

  General Notes:

~Sketches: Illustrative of the Topography and History of New and Old Sleaford, in the County of Lincoln, and of Several Places in the Surrounding Neighbourhood, p. 274, his wife is also named as Roese, daughter of Robert Dapifer, steard to Gilbert de Gaunt. ^,789

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁶⁰
The Kyme family was an ancient family who assumed the name from a lordship in Kesteven in Lincolnshire. Simon de Kyme founded the Priory of Bolinton during the reign of Stephen. He married Rose, the daughter of Robert Dapifer (steward to Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincholnshire), who was commonly known as roese de Bulinton.
~Burke's, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of of the Peerages, p. 299

• Background Information. ⁷⁹⁰
The family of Kyme is one of the oldest in Lincolnshire, having resided there before the Conquest. Its representatives successfully resisted William the Conqueror, and made terms with the new monarch for the retention of his patrimonial estate.
~The History and Antiquities of of Boston

Simon married Rose de Danifer, daughter of Robert de Danifer and Unknown. (Rose de Danifer was born about 1122 in Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, England.)