Simon de Vexin
Simon de Vexin , born in 1048, died in 1081, was count d' Amiens, of Vexin and of Valois Crépy, of 1074 with 1077. It was wire of Raoul IV, count de Valois, then of Vexin and Amiens, and Adèle of Bar-sur-Aube. It is also named holy Simon or Simon de Crépy .
Originating in Crépy-in-Valois, it was high at the court of William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy. He inherited his father, Raoul of Péronne, the counties of the Valois, Amiens, Montdidier and several other Champagne possessions what carried shade to the king of France, Philippe Ier. A war was followed from there. Simon was twenty years old and during three years it holds head with king de France.
While the troops of the king Philippe Ier devastated the Valois, the troops of Simon devastated the royal grounds. On the councils of the Pope Gregoire VII, he renonça with this war and married the girl of the count of Auvergne. Later, in agreement with it, he gave his fields to his sister, the countess of Vermandois, and the two husbands entered each one the religious life.
In 1077, withdrawn recently with the abbey of Saint-Claude but not appreciating the decline there that it noted there, it came to be established with some companions close to the source to the Doubs, in the middle of wood. It built a hermitage (some huts), of which a house adapted for the use of the monastic life and the needs for the agricultural life.
The hermitage remained and was transformed at the 12th century into a small rural priory dependant on Saint-Claude then of the abbey of Saint-Oyend of Joux. In spite of the hard climatic conditions, some peasants settled and founded the village of Mouthe (Doubs).
The initial name of the village was the Motte which corresponded to a heightening of ground, easier to defend. Thereafter, it gave its name to the whole of dwellings which settled there, and took successively the names of Muthua, Mutua, Mote in 1356 and Mouthe as of 1485.
Simon left in pilgrimage in Holy Land, then with Rome; it is there, in front of the Confession of Saint Pierre which it was reached of the disease which led it to death.
It accepted the sacraments of the Église of the hand even of the pope Gregoire VII.
Simon de Crépy was béatifié, and the inhabitants of Mouthe, Meuthiards venerate it since always. Its statue which dominates the village was inaugurated in 1934 and a relic (a bone of its arm) is always preserved at Mouthe.
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