Simon de St. Liz Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbia
- Born: Abt 1068, Normandy, France
- Marriage: Maud Countess of Huntingdon and Northumbria 141
- 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.
General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . ., 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. VII, (Huntington), pp. 640, 641
Simon married Maud Countess of Huntingdon and Northumbria, daughter of Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon and Judith de Lens.141 (Maud Countess of Huntingdon and Northumbria was born in 1072, died in 1131 and was buried in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland.)
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