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Note: Sources: RC 77; A. Roots, AF, Kraentzler 1402, 1423; Complete Peerage and Norr. Simon de St. Liz, 1st Earl of St. Liz. Called both Simon de St. Liz and Simon de Senlis. He appears to have come to England early in the reign of William II. Presumably, because of his marriage, he became Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton after 1086 (for he was not named in the Domesday Book) and before 1090 when he witnessed a charter to Bath Abbey as "Earl Simon." Peerage cites other sources that Simon came to England with his older brother Warner in 1066 to serve the King with 40 knights and that the Conqueror was Simon's patron. He fought for William in Normandy in 1098 and was taken prisoner by Louis, son of the French King. He was a crusader, and he went to Jerusalem "cruce signatus." He returned safely, but setting out again he died on the way at the Priory of La Charite-sur-Loire, of which he had been a benefactor, and was buried there.
Vitga et Passio, page 19, "records a tradition that the King had assigned the Countess Judith (the King's niece and widow of Waltheof II) to him as wife, and on her refusal (on account of Simon's lameness) gave him Judith's counties. Judith fled for hiding to the Ely marches, taking her daughters with her."
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