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Memorial to Simon at Paisley Abbey

Simon (fl. 1162×1163) was a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman.

Uncertain parentage

Simon may have been a son of Avelina de Hesdin and her second husband, Robert fitz Walter. As such, Simon seems to have been a uterine brother of Avelina's sons by her earlier marriage to Alan fitz Flaald: Jordan fitz Alan (fl. 1128–1130), William fitz Alan (died 1160), and Walter fitz Alan (died 1177).

Simon is recorded to have witnessed a grant of Walter to Paisley Priory. The fact that he appears at the bottom of the listed witnesses, and is described as a brother of Walter, could indicate that the men were uterine brothers.

Simon is also recorded to have issued a confirmation of a grant by Alan and his mother concerning the latter's lands of Kempston, Sporle, and Newton.

Simon is sometimes alleged to have been a son of Avelina and Alan, and to have been an ancestor of the Boyd family.

Citations

  1. Barrow (1980) pp. 13, 15 n. 59.
  2. Barrow (1980) p. 13; Round (1902) pp. 11–12, 13 tab.; Round (1901) pp. 125–126 n. 3.
  3. Barrow (1980) p. 14; Round (1901) pp. 125–126 n. 3; Registrum Monasterii de Passelet (1832) pp. 1–2; PoMS, H3/547/11 (n.d.); PoMS Transaction Factoid, No. 64314 (n.d.).
  4. Round (1902) pp. 11–12 n. 3.
  5. Barrow (1980) pp. 14–15; Round (1902) pp. 11–12 n. 3.
  6. Round (1902) p. 12; Round (1901) pp. 125–126 n. 3.
  7. Round (1901) pp. 125–126 n. 3; Eyton (1856) p. 346 n. 7.

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