Richard Fitz-Simon

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Coat of arms of Sir Richard Fitz-Simon as a knight of the Order of the Garter

Sir Richard Fitz-Simon of Simons Hide (* around 1295, † around 1349) was an English knight .

He was the squire of Simons Hide in Hertfordshire , Pensthorpe, Bawsey and Glosthorpe in Norfolk and Letheringham in Suffolk .

In 1334 he took part in a tournament in Dunstable . During the Hundred Years War he served in Flanders , took part in a diplomatic mission to Castile in 1344 and served under Henry of Grosmont in Aquitaine from 1345 to 1346 .

In the Battle of Crécy in 1346 he distinguished himself as the standard bearer of the English Crown Prince Edward of Woodstock . On April 23, 1348 King Edward III took him . as a founding member of the Order of the Garter .

In 1345 at the latest he had married Ada Botetourt, the widow of Sir John de Saint Philibert and daughter of John Botetourt, 1st Baron Botetourt . The marriage remained childless.

literature

  • Richard W. Barber: Edward III and the Triumph of England. The Battle of Crecy and the Company of the Garter. Allen Lane / Penguin Books Ltd, London 2013, ISBN 9780713998382 p. 513.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Fitz-Simon, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1295
DATE OF DEATH around 1349