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'''Simon''' was the first known [[Officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem|constable of Jerusalem]].<ref name=murray>{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=Alan V. |title=The crusader kingdom of Jerusalem : a dynastic history 1099-1125 |url=https://archive.org/details/crusaderkingdomo0000murr/page/228/ |publisher=Oxford : Prosopographica et Genealogica |access-date=30 June 2024 |page=228-229 |date=2000}}</ref> He may have been from the [[House of Limburg]].

He is cited as a witness two royal charters, the first in 1108 and the second in 1115 as ''Symon ducis filius''. He may be identified with the Simontos, referred to by [[Anna Comnena]] as an envoy of [[Baldwin I of Jerusalem]] to the [[County of Tripoli]] to receive Greek ambassadors in 1108, and as a cousin of the king.<ref name=murray/> Together these could imply that he was a son of [[Henry, Duke of Lower Lorraine]] and Count of Limburg,<ref name=murray/> and Adelaide, daughter of Botho of Pottenstein, a great-grandson of [[Eustace I of Boulogne]] by his maternal grandmother.

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