Simon of Cramaud

Simon de Cramaud (c. 1345 – 19 January 1423, in Poitiers) was a Catholic bishop, titular Latin Patriarch of Alexandria, and cardinal during the Great Western Schism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Simon taught canon law at the University of Paris, attracting the attention of John, Duke of Berry, one of the uncles of King Charles VI of France.

He was also appointed to Sens in 1390, but never occupied the see – instead he became the titular Latin Patriarch of Alexandria and Administrator of the Diocese of Avignon the following year.

[1] His treatise De substraccione obediencie (1397), offering multiple lines of reasoning for bringing the Schism to an end, was edited by Howard Kaminsky in 1984.

Simon argued that Benedict's followers could withdraw obedience to compel him to seek a solution to the Schism.