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Ranulph the Rich
Simon de Senlis Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton
(-Abt 1110)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Maud of Huntingdon

Simon de Senlis Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton 1 2

  • Marriage (1): Maud of Huntingdon about 1090
  • Died: Abt 1110

   Other names for Simon were Simon de St. Liz and Simon de Senliz Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton.

  Research Notes:

Crusader, son of Ranulph the Rich, a Norman.

From Wikipedia - Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton :

Simon I of St Liz, 1st Earl of Northampton and 1st Earl of Huntingdon[1] (died 1109) was a Norman nobleman.

He built Northampton Castle and the town walls[2]. He also built one of the three remaining Round churches in England , the The Holy Sepulchre , Sheep Street, Northampton ).

Family
He married Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon . Simon de Senlis, 4th Earl of Northampton was their son. A daughter, Maud de St. Liz, married Robert Fitz Richard . Waltheof of Melrose was also a son.


Simon married Maud of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof II Earl of Northumberland and Judith of Lens, about 1090. (Maud of Huntingdon was born about 1074 and died in 1131.)


Sources


1 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 130-26 (Maud of Huntingdon).

2 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton. Cit. Date: 17 Oct 2009.


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