Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Simon II de Senlis (or Senliz, St. Liz, etc.), 4th Earl of the Honour of Huntingdon and Northampton (Template:C. 1098–1153) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. He was the son of Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton and Maud, Countess of Huntingdon. He married Isabel, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester and they had a son Simon.
He was prominent in the Anarchy, fighting for Stephen of England in 1141 at the Battle of Lincoln. He continued to support Stephen's side; R. H. C. Davis calls him 'staunch' and 'consistently loyal'[1] and surmises that Simon calculated that if the Empress Matilda won, his earldom of Northampton would be taken over by her uncle David I of Scotland.[2]
Simon was rewarded by becoming Earl of Huntingdon. He died in 1153 just before Henry II of England took over, whereupon the king restored the Earldom of Huntingdon-Northampton to his ally Malcolm IV of Scotland.[3] His widow, Countess Isabel de Beaumont, remarried to baron Gervase Paganell.[4]
References
- ↑ R.H.C. Davis, King Stephen, 1st edition (Longman, London 1977), p.112, p.135.
- ↑ Davis, King Stephen, p.70.
- ↑ D. Crouch, The Image of Aristocracy: In Britain, 1000-1300 (Routledge 2005), page=49 (Google).
- ↑ Hemingway, John (2006). An Illustrated Chronicle of the Castle and Barony of Dudley 1070-1757. Dudley: The Friends of Dudley Castle. pp. 21–28.
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.