Simon of Tournai (c. 1130–1201) was a professor at the University of Paris in the late twelfth century.
His date of birth is uncertain, but he was teaching before 1184, as he signed a document at the same time as Gerard de Pucelle, the Bishop of Coventry, who died that year.
According to Thomas of Cantimpré, he would have pronounced the blasphemy of the three impostors and would have immediately been struck with epilepsy.
[4] The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia maintains that all of the surviving works of Simon of Tournai show an orthodox Catholicism.
Charles Baudelaire's poem The Punishment of Pride is alleged to reference Simon.