Sir John Fitz Simon Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁷⁴
The Fitz Simon (Fitz Simond) family had been possessed of estates in the Rochford Parish as early as 1294. Sir John Fitz Simons had four sons, Adam, Hugh, Edward and Richard. Adam Fitz-Simon, at the time of his decease in 1328, held in Little Schobery, 1 messuage, 243 acres of land, and 40s. rent of assize of the King as the honor of Reylie, and suit a the hundred of Rochford and Court of Reyle. He had several lesser parcels near. Edmund, his so, who married Anne Havering, held in 1362, the third part of this manor, and Barflete and Shelward Harshes of the honor aforesaid, leaving John, his son, who married Alice, daughter of Lord Fitz Walter and had by her Philip, father of John, that had by Mary Chambers, his wife, two sons, Robert and John.

~The History of Rochford Hundred, p. 908

• Pedigree. ³⁷⁸
In the Visitation of Essex, 1558, pp. 100-101:

Sir John Fitz-Simons, Kinight
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Sir Adam Fitz Simons, Knight, married to Joanne, daughter of Sir Henry Crapville(?)
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Sir Edward Fitz Simons Knight, married to Anne de Havering
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Sir John Fitz Simons, Knight, married to Alice daughter of Lord Fitz Walters
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Phillip Fitz Simond
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Sir John Fitz Simond, Knight, married to Mary Chambers, eldest daughter to Alex Adderburye
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John Fitz Simond, married to Maude, daughter and heire to Rauffe Baghott.

John married Margaret de Gernon, daughter of Sir William Gernon Knight and Unknown.