Simon III de Lalaing, chevalier, seigneur de Lallaing

Notes
- Knight.
- Grand bailli of Hainaut in 1358.
- Sire of Lalaing.
He took part in a tournament in Mons in 1310 and was opposed in a long lawsuit (which ended amicably in 1326) to the abbey of Anchin. In the recitals of the trial, Simon de Lalaing was forbidden to hang, roll or burn men or women near the abbey so as not to inconvenience the monks.

• **Brassart disputes that Simon's father was Othon de Lalaing, husband of Isabeau de Saarbück, as de Herckenrode (1865) indicates. According to him the tombstones which are used as a source by the other authors were rebuilt after 1500; the city of Lalaing having been destroyed in 1477 by the troops of Louis XI.

For Goethals, the father of Simon was Nicolas de Lalaing. For C Sars de Solmont, 1846, his parents were Simon de Lalaing and Isabeau de Sarrebrück.

Available Sources: J de Saint Genois, 1806, L de Herckenrode, 1865, F Brassart, 1879, FV Goethals, 1862, L de Herckenrode, 1844, C Butkens, 1626, C Sars de Solmont, 1846.
Death
Died in 1336 according to C Sars de Solmont, 1846.
- F Brasssart, 1879.
- FV Goethals, 1862.

Spouse 2: F Brasssart, 1879.
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Simon III de Lalaing + 03/05/1333 (inh. in Flines)
squire (from 1296) then knight (from 26/04/1300) lord of Lalaing
(cited 1300 as judicial & administrative legislator of the county of Hainaut)
(participated in 1290 with Florent de Hainaut in the Tournoi de Chauvency and in 1310 in the Tournoi de Mons) (tribute on 23/09/1296 to the Abbot of Anchin for a fief of the Châtellenie d'Oisy)
(has the Coutume de sa seigneurie drawn up on 04/26/1300, assisted by Simon, seigneur de Semeries) (concludes in 1326 and amicably a long lawsuit against the Abbey of Anchin on adjoining rights)

Cartulaire de Pecquencourt représentant l'Abbaye d'Anchin
Date 1607
Source Albums de Croÿ

ep. ~1310 Mahaut d'Aspremont + 1373 heiress of Quiévrain (daughter of Geoffroi III and Isabeau, lady of Quiévrain and Amblise; widow, became a nun at the convent of Beaumont in Valenciennes)

Patton, Etienne. “Famille & Seigneurs De Lalaing.” Racines et Histoire :

(Curator note: Simon III chose not to become seigneur de Quiévrain jute uxoris, rather his son Simon 1er de Lalaing de Quiévrain became its first seigneur upon the death of his mother.)
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SIMON III, sire de Lalaing,
knight, (about 1310) husband of Mahaut D'ASPREMONT, died in 1333; interred in Flines.

In 1290, following Prince Florent de Hainaut, son of Count Jean, at the Chauvency tournament, whose hero and heroine were "Joifrois," lord of Aspremont, and Isabeau, lady of Quiévrain, his wife, then “dame de jovene aage”, father and mother of the one Simon took as his wife, around 1310.

The herald Jacques Bretex describes it as follows:
“Simars de Lalain, qui d'amors.
Seit les amors et les clamors
And as for the mestier afiert. » (20)
(Simon de Lalain, who of Love knows the approvements and disprovements; maybe)

In 1296, on September 23, being still only "escuyers", this lord of Lalaing paid homage to the abbot of Anchin for a fief (probably located in the castellany of Oisy) which he had acquired from Jean d'Aubigny, and submitted, as well as the abbey itself, to an arbitration, on the subject of difficulties existing between them. The arbitrators were: "my lord Perron de Senghin, knight, and Symon de Chaudardée, squire", with "Jehans de Sarris, li baillius d'Oysi", as third arbiter (21).

He was a knight when, on April 26, 1300, he had the custom of his lordship drawn up, being assisted, according to custom, by his closest relatives who were adults and not impeded, namely: his "shitty and faithful friends, Monsignor Symon de Lalaing, lord of Sepmeries (see branch of Semeries, VII), and Mons.

Later, having become a knight, Simon III had another seal relating his high dignity. With Simon we find the knights Lord Druon and the Lord of Wargny. The original charter, provided with the seals of these three personages, was “placed and enclosed, by way of custody and safe place and secure” in the abbey of Marchiennes.

It is probably he who appears in the list of counts, "banerech" and knights who attended the tournament of Mons in 1310; he is called there "Sausonneg de Lalaing"; there were, with the count of Hainaut and the princes Jean de Hainaut, Henri de Flandre and Guy de Namur, the lords of Ligne, Bousies, Gayre, as well as the knights Hugues d'Antoing, Michel de Ligne, "Sausier" (Sanse or Sanche?) d'Antoing, the one-eyed man from Mauny (father of the famous Wautier de Mauny, one of Froissart's heroes), "Alars de Robais", “Nico de Wasiers” etc. (22).

In 1326, a long lawsuit which he had against the abbey of Anchin was ended amicably, and which derived from the considerable rights which his ancestors had abandoned to the abbey in their own village. In one of the many articles of the debate, the arbitrators decide that, out of convenience “and to oster the horror of the said religious and of all people who would pass by that liu”, it will be forbidden for the lord of Lalaing to “raise fourques for: hang men, do not lift roees, do not ardoir men or women”, in the part of his seigniory adjoining that of the abbey (Proofs, n0 XVII).

On May 31, 1332, were chosen as arbitrators between the abbess of Flines "suer Gille", and the lord of Rache: "noble men monsingueur Symon(l), singneur de Lallaing, and monsingneur Jehan, singneur de Wendin, knights."

Between 1307 and 1329, Simon III appears in several charters of Hainaut.

He died on May 3, 1333, and was buried in the abbey church of Flines, by a special privilege and no doubt in consideration of his sister the abbess: according to the rule, in fact, only kings, queens and bishops should have been buried in the churches of the Order of Citeaux (Hautcoeur, Hist. de l'abbaye de Flines, page 81). His widow became a nun in the convent of Beaumont in Valenciennes, where she died in 1373.

It is this generation that has almost always been a pitfall for genealogists, by giving as father to Simon III a certain Otto de Lalaing and a certain Isabeau de Saarbruck. The proof of the alleged alliance of Lalaing and Saarbrucken rests only on funerary monuments: but they are susceptible to many modifications. In Flines, the tomb of the abbess Gille II, daughter of Simon III, was decorated with eight quarters, among which appeared that of Saarbrucken, appearing to belong to her grandmother (pater) (23) made on the original, it is by error that, in the Cartulary of Flines, II, p. 555, the lord of Lalaing is named Jehan instead of Symon.

Strangely enough, Gramaye, in his Antiquitates Belgicoe, Flandria, p. 214, col. 1 (Louvain, 1703, in-fo), speaking of the beautiful tomb of this lord, which he had noticed at Flines, calls him Jean Simon.

• **It is known (24) that the tombs of Flines had been remade (25); and on the other hand, this quarter was not among the twelve coats of arms which decorated the tomb of Simon III himself (26). On the tomb of the Good Knight Jacques de Lalaing, killed in 1453, was also the quarter of "Sarrebruche": "Azure a lyon argent, semé de croisettes fichées recroisettées de mesmes, couronné d'or"; this would be the second of his thirty-six quarters, if they were arranged in methodical order; but on the monument, it occupied the fifth rank, according to the description contained in the Ms. Heraldry, analyzed above, of the National Library, n° 5229, 11°, and dating from 1525 approximately.

The monument of the Good Knight, as well as those of his father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, was destroyed during the Revolution, but the five mutilated statues, preserved in our Museum, seem to us to belong to a single period, although one of the figures died in 1434 and another in 1495. It is certain that the troops of Louis XI, in 1477, "burned the town of Lalaing" (27), and it is unlikely that they spared the church, contrary to the usual actions of the soldiers. Also we conclude that the epitaph of Jacques de Lalaing was redone, probably at the beginning of the XVIth century and by Charles I (2nd branch, XIII), who was very fond of his seigniory, the cradle of a long line of ancestors: for he had the cult of the family (28) and the Good Knight was the greatest illusory one; also he gave the name of Jacques to one of his of his sons. These two monuments prove only one thing, that around 1500, people believed in the alliance of Lalaing and Saarbrucken, which would have immediately preceded that of Aspremont. At that time, it was not easy to search the ecclesiastical archives, which alone could have enlightened the heralds in their genealogical research on the Lalaing; these invaluable repositories having been opened for us, we do not hesitate to delete the district of Saarbrucken and to replace it by that of Willerval.

WILLERVAL in a chirograph received by the people of law of the village of Quiévrechain, in 1346, "the day of Saint Thumas lappostele before Noel", December 21, resting in the Departmental Archives, in the collection of the cathedral of Cambrai, and containing a sale of lands made by the lord Nicolas III (see below, IX), contains invaluable information on the family and the children of Mahaut d'Aspremont.

"As by the succession and the trespas of high man and noble monsigneur Joffroit d'Aspremont, knight, lord of Kieurechin, to whom Dieus fache mierchy, it was and is eskeut to his heirs, so much, brothers and soers, as eskanchiers, chi apries named, all li tiere of Kieurechin....... Cest assavoiroir : à reverent, personne noble et poissant monsr Henri, par la grasce de Dieu, eveske de Vredun, medame Mehaut de Lalaing, se sereur , medame Alliennor d'Asprte ment, dame de Fontaines , leur soer , et monsigneur: Joffroit de Saint. Disier, knight, to loyal parchon, to these iiij heirs and escanchiers of the said.

"And then that eskance, if as said is, li. before said medame Mehaus, dame de Lalaing, is entered in religion and eu wist renonchiet to se ditte parchon, liquelle is and must yestre eskeuwe of li to monsigneur Nicollon, signeur de Lalaing, sen aisnet son, knight.

"And since then, li dis messe Nicolles eu wist vendut... a certain sum of florins al escut de rente à vie à rakat... And as of rekief li dis... has sold... to discrete noble man and poissant monsignor Robiert de Couchi, canonne and cantor of the church of Cambray and seigneur of the Chasteller on Oyse, several parts of that of the aforementioned terré, belonging to the parchon the aforementioned monsignor Nicollon.... By which vendaige was made li rakat of the sold rent to life,... And also.... made, sour celi parchon, such as came and eskeuwe li is of by his mother, vendaige of thirty livrées of tiere to hiretaige to noble dame Margherite de Wingles, dame de Roisin." In order to regularize these sales, the lord Nicolas "requist as others, parchoniers, above named to have loyal parchon", and the division made, he carried out the alienation which he had agreed to the profit of the noble cantor.

What was concluded "by the gret.... of medame Mehaut de Lalaing, her mother, who, for as much as to be viaige [on the ground of Lalaing] could toukier, renounced of rekief good and souffisamnt to all the parts dou vendaige deseure said. And by the pledge of medame Ysabiel, dame de Lalaing, companion and espeuse to the said monsr Nicollon, monsr Symon de Lalaing (1), monsigneur Jehan dit Sanson de Lalaing, chlre, brothers to the said monsr de Lalaing, Gillion de Reumont and demisielle Florence, his wife, demisielle Margherite de Lalaing, canoinnesse, of Malboege, demisielle Marie, de Lalaing, canoinnesse of Niuielle, and demisielle Gille de Lalaing, sereurs to the aforementioned monsr de Lalaing "; the aldermen being fully appeased "of place of the greance of the mother to the monsignor of Lalaing and of all his children above named. "

Here is the long list of children of lord Simon III and Mahaut d'Aspremont. 1° Nicolas, who follows.
2° Simon de Lalaing, author of the branch of Quiévrain, who will follow.
3° Jean known as Sanson de Lalaing, knight, living in 1346.
4° Florence de Lalaing, minor in 1338 and

(29). One finds in the account of the great bailliag ) of Hainaut, from September 15, 1350 to May 15, 1351, fo 4 vo, that at the request of "monsr Simon de Lalaing", the bailli "fist arriester, sour monsr Joffroit de Saindizier, aucuns biens appartenant au tiestament monsr le ovesque de Vredun" quoted with two of her sisters, Marie and Jeanne, in a quittance that their elder brother delivered, in their name, to the lady of Aspremont (their maternal grandmother), in Quiévrain, on Sunday after the day of Christmas (December 27) 1338, for the arrears of an annuity of 200 livres that the aforementioned lady owed because of the marriage of the late lord and the lady of Lalaing, which annuity had been assigned in the share, of these three young ladies. (29).

In 1346, she was the wife of "Gillon" DE REUMONT, of the house of Roisin; of which there were posterity. It is him who became "messire Gilles, sire de Rumont et de Berelle, chevalier," appearing as a man of fief of Hainaut in an act passed in Mons, "or castiel", on May 2, 1362 (departmental archives, funds of the abbey of Saint-Jean of Valenciennes).

In 1385, in the "notice" of the lord and lady of Quiévrain, appears among the parents, on the side of the "notifying" (see branch of Quiévrain, IX): the knight Jean, lord of "Ruymont and Berelle", who is a son of Florence de Lalaing.
These Reumonts were cadets of Roisin and bore: Banded Gules and Argent of six pieces (and for blaze) to the label of three pendants degueules. The lady of Reumont, who died on August 13, 1380, lies next to her husband, in the church of Berelles (30)

5° Marguerite de Lalaing, canoness of Maubeuge in 1346.
6° Marie de Lalaing, minor in 1338, canoness of Nivelle in 1346.
7° Jeanne de Lalaing minor in 1338, having died or entered in religion in 1346.
8° Gille II de Lalaing abbess of Flines in 1363, died on March 16, 1387 (old style), buried in her church, in front of the altar of Saint Jerome. She had left to the abbey certain lands which her niece Jeanne de "Kievraing", in 1392 nun of Flines (31), was to enjoy for life; this Jeanne de Lalaing dite de Quiévrain, daughter of Simon, also became abbess (see branch of Quiévrain, IX 7°). The coat of arms which adorned the tomb of Gille II was part of Lalaing and Aspremont (32), arms of her father and mother.

We believe that we can still add to the children of the lord Simon III :

9° Isabeau de Lalaing, "cordelière eu Verdun", named in the will of Isabeau, lady of Aspremont and Quiévrain, passed on "Wednesday after the feast of the Blessed Sacrament" 1326, in the presence of religious of Verdun; she bequeathed 20 livres to him; she bequeathed 60 "to nre chiere fille Felicitas" (33).
10° Béatrix de Lalaing, a nun in the convent of Beaumont in Valenciennes, named in a codicil of the lady of Aspremont, dated in Quiévrain, April 4, 1336, by which she chose for her burial the church of the sisters "preeceresses of Biaumont en Valencs", and bequeathed "to sister Julliane and sister Jehane d'Aspremont, my daughters, sisters of the church of Biaumont, to sister Beatrix de Lallaing, to sister Katherine dou Wes, to Marie and to Ysabiel, sisters as children of Wargni" (34).

(20) Tournois de Chauvanci; vers 4081-3.
(21) Arch. départ., fonds d'Anchin, orignal scellé.
(22) Minutes of the sessions of the Comroy d'history, Brussels, 1863, in-8o, 3rd series, V, pp. 254-258. According to a Ms. herald of the year 1405, based in the Bibl. imper. from Vienna
(23) Simon III ne parait pas avoir épousé Mahaut d'Aspremon 1 avant 1310 : or il était d'un âge mûr à cette époque-là. Se serait-il marié auparavant à Isabeau de Saarbruck ?
(24) Bibl. publ. de Douai, Ms. €88, écriture du XVIIIe siècle ; Epitaphier de Malotau, 1, p. 38.
(25) C'est l'abbesse Jeanne de Boubais (1507-1533) qui fit « renouveler " les tombes (Cartul., II, p. 927),
(26) Epitaphier de Malotau,1, p. 38.
(27) Acte du 31 décembre 1493; no 101 de l'inventaire des archives communales de Lalaing.
(28) Voir dans Molinet, V, p. 240, comment il défendit la mémoire de son père contre certaines allégations d'Olivier de La Marche.
(29) Saint-Genois, Monum. anciens, Paris, 1782, in-fo, I,-p. 225.
(30) Bibl. publique, de Douai, Ms. 886, épitaphier de Malotau, de l'an 1740, IV, p. 390.
(31) Hautcoeur, Hist. de l'abbaye de Flines, pp. 388 et 486 ; et Car tul., II p. 704.
(32) Epitaphier de Malotau, précité. — Epitaphier ms. de la Bibl. d'Arras, n° 738 (ancien 756), f° 17 v° : communication due à l'obligeance de M. Preux.
(33) Collection Moreau, vol..; 225, f° 67 ; copie prise par' dom Queinsert, en 1774, dans les archives des soeurs de saint Dominique de Beaumont à Valenciennes.
(34) Id., vol. 228, f° 97.

Brassart, Felix, Société Académique, editor. Souvenirs De La Flandre Wallonne, Catalogue des Nobels de Nom, de Lalaing, Dix-Septieme, L. Crépin, 1882. un Comite Historique et Archeologique: Memories of Walloon Flanders: pg. 18-28
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