Simon fitz William

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1162.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 974). Farrer (2:119) states that Simon “presumably” died in 1162.

Relationships

Father: William.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 974). The Complete Peerage (7:356) gives William as the son of Simon, the son of William de Kyme, tenant of Waldin the engineer, the Domesday tenant, following Farrer (2:118-119).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Agnes.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 974). Some websites give Agnes’s father as Baldric de Lindsay, without giving a source. Farrer (2:120-123) suggests that the connection of Baldric to the family of this page was through Philip’s wife, Hawise, being his great-granddaughter. Dugdale (2:620) gives Roese de Bulinton, the daughter of Robert, steward to Gilbert de Gant, earl of Lincoln.

Spouse: Sibil.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 974). The Complete Peerage (9:Chart Pedigree of the Neville Family) gives the wife of Simon fitz William as a daughter of Raffin, without naming her.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Keats-Rohan p 974 and the Complete Peerage 7:356)

Philip de Kyme (died about 1189) married Hawise.

Simon married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Thomas fitz Richard of Cuckney.

William.

Walter.

Agnes married Herbert fitz Alard.

Sibil married Roger de Benniworth.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Dugdale, William. The Baronage of England. (1675-6).

Farrer, William. Honors and Knights’ Fees (Manchester University Press, 1925).

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166: II Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum (Boydell Press, 2002).