Simon de Vermandois, Bishop of Noyon

From the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy page on Northern France: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORTHERN%20FRANCE.htm

SIMON de Vermandois (-Seleukia 10 Feb 1148, bur Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Ourscamp).

The Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis names (in order) "Radulfum comitem Veromandie et Henricum de Chauni et Simonem episcopum Noviomensem" as the sons of "Hugonem Magnum [et] Adelaide comitissa Veromandensium"[1353]. "Adela…Viromandorum comitissa, filius…meus Radulphus" renounced their claim to certain serfs in favour of the abbey of Compiègne Saint-Corneille, with the consent of "filiorum meorum Radulphi, Henrici, Symonis", by charter dated 1114[1354].

The Liber de Restauratione Sancti Martini Tornacensis names "Symonem adolescentem, filium Hugonis comitis cognomento Magni", when recording his election as Bishop of Noyon[1355]. He was elected Bishop of Noyon in Jul 1123.

He was excommunicated in 1142 by Pope Innocent II for having authorised the divorce of his brother Comte Raoul I from his first wife.

He accompanied Louis VII King of France on the Second Crusade in 1147, and died on the return journey[1356].

Simon of Vermandois (1093-1148) was a French nobleman and bishop.

He was a son of Hugh I of Vermandois.

Elected Bishop of Tornai-Noyon in 1123, he was excommunicated in 1142 by Pope Innocent II, for divorcing his brother Raoul I, Count of Vermandois from Eléonore of Blois.

(According to German Wikipedia: Simon was elected in 1123 as Bishop of Noyon-Tornai. In his office, he pursued the murderers of his brother, including Charles "Le Bon" Comte de Flandres, and founded the Cistercian Abbey of Ourscamp in 1129. In 1142, he supported his brother, Comte Raoul I de Vermandois in divorcing his wife, gaining for him the support of the Bishops of Laon and Senlis.)

(The powerful brother of the divorced woman, Theobald IV/II Comte de Blois-Champagne, won the Pope over and obtained an excommunication for Simon and his colleagues. Simon traveled to Rome to reconcile himself with Pope Innocent II, but he failed to move him on either a restoration.)

(In 1146, his diocese was divided, with the bishopric of Tornai going to Anselm, while Simon was to receive the smaller Diocese of Noyon. He began plans to build a new cathedral.)

He subsequently went on the Second Crusade with Louis VII of France, dying on the return journey in Seleucia.[1][2]

(In 1147, he accompanied his cousin, King Louis VII on the Second Crusade to the Holy Land. Simon died in Asia Minor, but his body was taken to the abbey he helped found at Ourscamp.)

He was buried at Ourscamp Abbey, which he had founded in 1129, inviting monks from Clairvaux Abbey under Waleran de Baudemont.[3][4]