Simon Pierrepont Knt. (abt. 1270 - aft. 1304)

Born about 1270 in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England

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Died after 8 Jun 1304 after about age 34 in Nottinghamshire, England

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• Palgrave, Francis. The Parliament Writs and Writs of Military Summons (His Majesty King George IV, 1827) Vol. 1, Page 782

• Ellis, William Smith. Hurstpierpoint: Its Lords and Families, Ancient and Modern (1866) Page 17-19

• "This Simon was one of those who by a special write dated June 8, 1304, 32 Edw. I, had Summons, amongst the Barons of the Realm, to repair with all speed to the King, to treat of certain weighty affairs relating to his and their honour, being in reference to the King's expedition into France."

• Calendar of Chancery Warrants Preserved in the Public Record Office (His Majesty's Stationery office, London, 1927)

• Page 591: 1280, May 1. Stapleford (Nottinghamshire) "To R. bishop of Bath and Wells. The King commanded Simon de Perepunt to desist from unjust grievances and excesses against the men of Heghewik, but he does not cease. Mandate to cite him to appear before the king in this instant Parliament to answer the men for the trespasses and the king for the contempt."

• The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (London: J. Hinton, Nov. 1767) Page 250

• Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica (John Bowyer Nichols and Son, London, 1842) Vol. 8, Page 200

• Banks, Thomas. Baronia Anglica Concentrata (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. London, 1843) Vol. 2, Page 119

• Burke, John & Burke, Bernard. A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland (Henry Colburn, 1846)

• Page 419: "...who, in the 32d Edward I., was one of those that by special writ, bearing date upon the 8th day of June, had summons amongst the barons of the realm, to repair with all speed to the king, wheresoever he should then be in England, to treat of certain weighty affairs, relating to his and their honour: the sheriffs of every county having also command to cause two knights for each shire; as also two citizens, and two burgesses for each city and borough, to attend the hing at the same time, to advise and consent for themselves and the comonalty of their respective shires, cities, and boroughts, unto what the Earls, barons, and nobles, should at that time ordain."

"This Simon leaving a daughter (only), Sibilla, who m. Edmund Ufford"

• Sussex Archaeological Society. Sussex Archaeological Collections (Sussex Archaeological Society, H.Wolff, 64 High Street, Lewes, England, 1859) Vol. 11, Page 62

• Brown, Cornelius. Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies and of Celebrated and Remarkable Men of the Country, From the Norman Conquest to A.D. 1882 (H. Sotheran, London, 1882) Page 38.

• Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees From The Plea Rolls (Public Record Office, Great Britain, c.1905) Page 270.
  • De Banco. Easter. 12. Hen. 4. m. 293.
  • Suffolk. — Thomas Aleyn and William and Richard, his brothers, sued William Bowet, Kt., and Joan, his wife, for an unjust disseisin in Henstede.
  • "Simon Perpount, Kt., seised of the manors of Wrentham, Benacre, and Henstede, living 4 E. 3." He had a son, John, who married Ela, dau. of William de Calthorp and had daughter Sibil.

• Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Company, 1913) Page 20.

• Ellis, William Smith. The Parks and Forests of Sussex, Ancient and Modern, Historical, Antiquarian and Descriptive ( H. Wolff, Lewes, 1885)

• Page 83: "Sibilla, the heiress of Sir Simon de Pierpoint, married Sir Edmund de Ufford, knight, a member of an ancient family. His son, Sir Robert de ufford, who died in 1400, left two daughters and co-heiresses, who carried the ancient inheritance of the Pierpoints to their respective husbands, Sir William Bowett, knight, who married Joan, or Amy, and Richard Bowett, who married Ela."

• Ellis, William Smith. A History of Hurstperpoint (J. Phillips, Birghton, 1837) Page 17.

• Tilley, Joseph. Old Halls, Manors, and Families of Derbyshire (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Ltd., London, 1899) Vol. 3 "The Scarsdale Hundred", Page 19.

• Suckling, Alfred Inigo, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk (J. Weale, London, 1847) Vol. 2, Page 369.
  • "Sir Simon de Pierpoint, who in 1271 obtained license of free warren in his estates in Benacre, Wrentham, and Henstead, was a knight of large possessions and remarkable for his steady attachment to King Henry III."