Simon de Achingham

Also known as Simon fitz Drogo

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Simon had succeeded his father Drew by 1129/30.

Date of Death: shortly before 1166.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the Sussex VCH (9:212).

Relationships

Father: Drew of Pevensey.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 508) and by Saul (p. 4).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

William de Echingham married Ala, daughter of Haimo fitz Mainfelin.

References

A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 9, the Rape and Honour of Hastings, (Victoria County Histories, 1937).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Robert of Flamborough. Liber Poenitentialis, ed. J.J. Francis Firth (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1971).

Saul, Nigel. Scenes from Provincial Life: Knightly Families in Sussex, 1280-1400. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986).