Simon de SENLIS

                       (1) Simon Senlis/St. Liz: (b. before 1045, d. 1109, buried at the priory of La
    Charite-Sur-Loire).  He probably went to England from Normandy about the end of
    the reign of William the Conqueror, and he was offered by the Conqueror the
    hand of William's niece, Judith of Lens, the widow of Earl Watheof of
    Huntingdon whom William beheaded in 1076 for treason, but Judith refused to
    marry him on account of his lameness.  He then recieved the earldom of
    Northampton and Huntingdon from the king and eventually married Waltheof and
    Judith's daughter Maud (d. 1131), probably not earlier than 1098.  In 1098 he
    was fighting on the side of King William Rufus in Normandy and was taken
    prisoner by Louis, son of the king of France.  He was one of tthe witnesses to
    the coronation charter of King Henry I of England in 1100.  Afterwards he went
    on the crusade and died in 1109.  Earl Simon built Northampton Castle and
    founded the priory of St. Andrew, Northampton, probably in 1108.  By his wife
    Maud he had two sons:  Simon (d.1153, Earl of Northampton, married Isabel de
    Beaumont, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Gloucester who d. 1118 by
    whom he had a son Simon III who died without issue after having married Alice
    de Gant, daughter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln), and Waltheof III (d.
    1159, Abbot of Melrose).  His daughter Maud married Robert Fitz-Richard de
    Clare of Tonbridge and Willi