Simon (
fl.
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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
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, 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
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.
[ Round (1901) pp. 125–126 n. 3; Eyton (1856) p. 346 n. 7.]
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Simon, brother of Walter son of Alan @ People of Medieval Scotland, 1093–1314
12th-century births
Year of death unknown
Clan Boyd
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