In Talmudic literature he is generally called after his native place, Chinon (Hebr.
He was a contemporary of Peretz Kohen Gerondi, who declared Samson to be the greatest rabbinical authority of his time.
Samson wrote also responsa, several of which are quoted by Joseph Colon[3] and Solomon ben Adret.
[4] According to Heinrich Gross,[2] Samson was the author of the supercommentary on Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch found by Judah Mosconi at Perpignan between 1363 and 1375 (Halberstam MS.).
As regards the word (ממרשילאה = "of Marseilles"), which appears in the manuscript after the name Samson of Chinon, Gross believes that Samson settled at Marseilles after the banishment of the Jews from France.