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SIMON MORHIER (d. c. 1450)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 836 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMON See also:MORHIER (d. c. 1450)  , See also:provost of See also:Paris during the See also:English occupation in the 15th See also:century, was seigneur of Gilles, near Nogent-le-Roi, in the Chartrain See also:country . Being a member of the See also:duke of See also:Burgundy's party, he was appointed provost at Paris by See also:John, duke of See also:Bedford, on the 1st of See also:December 1422 . He was taken prisoner at the See also:siege of See also:Montargis in 1427, and again at the See also:battle of Rouvrai in 1429; but in See also:September of the latter See also:year he repulsed See also:Joan of Arc's attack upon Paris . After a See also:campaign in Cotentin in 1435, he was once more taken prisoner at the See also:bridge of Charenton in 1436 . Remaining faithful to the English party, he became See also:captain of See also:Dreux, a councillor of See also:Henry VI., and treasurer of See also:France and See also:Normandy . He assisted in the See also:defence of See also:Meaux (1439), of See also:Creil and of See also:Pontoise (1441), and must have died between 1450 and 1456 . See the Nouvelle biographie generale, vol. See also:xxxvi . ; and a See also:note on See also:Simon See also:Morhier in the See also:memoirs of the Antiquarian Society of France, vol. See also:xxv .

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