Simon II de Senlis (or Senliz, St. Liz, etc.), 4th
Earl of the Honour of Huntingdon and Northampton ( 1098 – 1153) was an
Anglo-Norman Anglo-Norman may refer to:
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nobleman. He was the son of
Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton
Simon I de Senlis (or Senliz, St. Liz, etc.), 1st Earl of Northampton and 2nd Earl of Huntingdon ''jure uxoris'' (died between 1111 and 1113; most likely 1111 as this is when his castle at Northampton passed to the crown) was a Norman nobleman.
I ...
and
Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
Maud, Countess of Huntingdon ( 1074 – 1130/1131), or Matilda, was Queen of Scotland as the wife of King David I. She was the great-niece of William the Conqueror and the granddaughter of Earl Siward.
Biography
Maud was the daughter of Walt ...
. He married Isabel, daughter of
Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester
Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155–1168.
The surname "de Beaumont" was given to him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robe ...
and they had a son
Simon
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.
He was prominent in
the Anarchy
The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between 1138 and 1153, which resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order. The conflict was a war of succession precipitated by the accidental death of William Adelin, the only legiti ...
, fighting for
Stephen of England
Stephen (1092 or 1096 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154. He was Count of Boulogne '' jure uxoris'' from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy from 1135 u ...
in 1141 at the
Battle of Lincoln. He continued to support Stephen's side;
R. H. C. Davis
Ralph Henry Carless Davis (7 October 1918 – 12 March 1991) was a British historian and educator specialising in the European Middle Ages. Davis was born and died in Oxford. He was a leading exponent of strict documentary analysis and interpre ...
calls him 'staunch' and 'consistently loyal' and surmises that Simon calculated that if the
Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda ( 7 February 110210 September 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as ...
won, his earldom of Northampton would be taken over by her uncle
David I of Scotland
David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Modern: ''Daibhidh I mac haoilChaluim''; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153. The youngest son of Malcolm ...
.
Simon was rewarded by becoming
Earl of Huntingdon
Earl of Huntingdon is a title which has been created several times in the Peerage of England. The medieval title (1065 creation) was associated with the ruling house of Scotland (David I of Scotland, David of Scotland).
The seventh and most rec ...
. He died in 1153 just before
Henry II of England
Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (french: link=no, Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress, or Henry Plantagenet, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189, and as such, was the first Angevin king ...
took over, whereupon the king restored the Earldom of Huntingdon-Northampton to his ally
Malcolm IV of Scotland
Malcolm IV ( mga, Máel Coluim mac Eanric, label=Medieval Gaelic; gd, Maol Chaluim mac Eanraig), nicknamed Virgo, "the Maiden" (between 23 April and 24 May 11419 December 1165) was King of Scotland from 1153 until his death. He was the eldest ...
.
[D. Crouch, ''The Image of Aristocracy: In Britain, 1000-1300'' (Routledge 2005)]
page=49
(Google).
References
Source
* K. Stringer, 'Senlis, Simon (II) de, earl of Northampton and earl of Huntingdon (d. 1153)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)
accessed 20 May 2007
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1090s births
1153 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Anglo-Normans
People of The Anarchy
Earls of Northampton
Earls of Huntingdon (1065 creation)
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