SIMON

See also:

• SIMON MORHIER (d. c. 1450)

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