Simon of Vermandois

Simon of Vermandois († February 10, 1148 ) was Bishop of Tournai - Noyon to 1146 and then Bishop of Noyon. He was a son of Count Hugh of Vermandois and Adelheid of Valois, his father's side he was a member of the Capetian dynasty.

Simon was elected in 1123 to the Bishop of Tournai - Noyon. In his office he pursued the murderer of his brother, Count Charles the Good of Flanders, and founded in 1129 the Cistercian abbey Ourscamp. In 1142, he assisted his brother, Count Rudolf of Vermandois, in the separation of his wife and won for this project his counterparts from Laon and Senlis. The mighty brother outcast woman, Count Theobald IV. / II. of Blois -Champagne, but was able to win the Pope for his interests, which in turn pronounced excommunication on Simon. Simon traveled to Rome to be reconciled with the Pope, but this is not managed to the partition plan for the diocese of Tournai - Noyon rejected.

In 1146 the diocese was divided, Bishop of Tournai was Anselm, while Simon the newly created diocese of Noyon was but smaller. Here he brought forward plans to build a new cathedral. In 1147 he accompanied his cousin, King Louis VII on the Second Crusade to the Holy Land. Simon died in Asia Minor, his body was transferred to the abbey founded by him Ourscamp.