- Simon Morhier
Simon Morhier (d. c. 1450), provost of
Paris during the English occupation in the 15th century, was seigneur of Gilles, nearNogent-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 , onDecember 1 ,1422 . He was taken prisoner at thesiege of Montargis in 1427, and again at thebattle of Rouvrai in 1429; but in September of the latter year he repulsedJoan 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 ofDreux , a councillor of Henry VI, and treasurer of France andNormandy . He assisted in the defence ofMeaux (1439), ofCreil and ofPontoise (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.----
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