Name Simon Vermandois Parents Hugh, Count of Vermandois | Died February 10, 1148 Uncles Philip I of France | |
Cousins Louis VI of France, Constance of France, Princess of Antioch, Cecile of France Grandparents Anne of Kiev, Henry I of France Similar People Elizabeth of Vermand, Henry I of France, Anne of Kiev, Charles - Count of Valois, Alphonse - Count of Poitiers | ||
Simon of Vermandois (1093–1148) was a French nobleman and bishop.
He was a son of Hugh I of Vermandois. Elected bishop of Noyon in 1123, he was excommunicated in 1142 by Pope Innocent II, for divorcing his brother Raoul I, Count of Vermandois from Eleonore of Blois. He subsequently went on the Second Crusade with Louis VII of France, dying on the return journey in Seleucia.
He was buried at Ourscamp Abbey, which he had founded in 1129, inviting monks from Clairvaux Abbey under Waleran de Baudemont.
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