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Before he became a monk, Simon handed his county of the Vexin over to King Philip.
He is buried in Delincourt in the very nice and green Vexin region (55 minutes from Paris) where he used to have his countryside property.
He secured northern Maine but failed to seize the French-controlled part of the Vexin region.
In exchange for being recognised as Duke of Normandy by Louis, Geoffrey surrendered half of the Vexin — a region vital to Norman security — to Louis.
Not having heard anything directly from their sovereign, FitzRalph and the Norman barons rejected Philip's claim to Vexin.
Robert fled to Flanders to the court of his uncle Robert I, Count of Flanders before plundering the county of the Vexin and causing such mayhem that his father King William allied himself with King Philip I of France to stop his rebellious son.
The search began for a fresh site for a new castle to defend the duchy of Normandy and act as a base from which Richard could launch his campaign to take back the Vexin from French control.
William's son Robert, still allied with the French king Philip I, appears to have been active in stirring up trouble, enough so that William led an expedition against the French Vexin in July 1087.