General Notes

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ANCESTRAL FILE; PED OF AUGUSTINE H. AYERS;
NAMaine Simon De /SAINT LIZ OR SENLIS/
TITL [Connecticut HNTNGTN & NRTHMPTN]/
DEAT PLAC La Charite-Sur-Loir, Nievre, France
BURI PLAC Reinterred St. Neots, France

Simon de St. Liz was given the honor of the Earldoms of Huntingdon and
Northampton by King William. He built the castle of Northampton, as also
the prioryof St. Andrews there, about the 18th year of the Conqueror's
reign, and was a liberal benefactor to the church. He was a witness to
King Henry I.'s laws in 1100, after which he made a voyage to the Holy
Land, and died on his return In 1115, at the Abbey of Charity in France.