Simon FitzSimon

Simon FitzSimon

Simon FitzSimon, also known as Simon FitzSimmons and "Symon Semeonis", Irish writer, fl.1323.

Author of "Itinearium Symonis Semeonis ab Hybernia ad Terram Sanctam", an account of his journey to the Holy Land via Britain, Paris, Genoa, Bobbio, Venice, and Egypt

ources

* "Itinearium Symonis Semeonis ab Hybernia ad Terram Sanctam", ed. and translated by Mario Esposito, Dublin, 1960.
* "A New History of Ireland", volume one, p. 453, 460.


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