[1] It is believed that Simon was commissioned by Henry I, Count of Champagne to write three poems in Latin based on the Trojan Wars including a summary of the Aeneid and the Iliad.
[2] In his Ylias,[3] Simon drew on Joseph of Exeter's work Frigii Daretis Yliados libri sex as well as Virgil's Aeneid.
The largest version of this poem runs to 994 verses.
[4] Albert C. Friend has argued that Chaucer, in turn, relied on Simon's work along with the original version by Virgil for his own retelling of the Aeneid.
[5] Simon is also credited with the composition of a series of epitaphs dedicated to Saint Bernard.