Simon, brother of Walter fitz Alan

Simon may have been a son of Avelina de Hesdin and her second husband, Robert fitz Walter.

[1] As such, Simon seems to have been a uterine brother of Avelina's sons by her earlier marriage to Alan fitz Flaald: Jordan fitz Alan (fl.

[2] Simon is recorded to have witnessed a grant of Walter to Paisley Priory.

[4] Simon is also recorded to have issued a confirmation of a grant by Alan and his mother concerning the latter's lands of Kempston, Sporle, and Newton.

[5] Simon is sometimes alleged to have been a son of Avelina and Alan,[6] and to have been an ancestor of the Boyd family.