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Simon of Southwell (sometimes Simon of Sywell or Simon of Siwell) was a medieval English canon lawyer and canon who became treasurer of the cathedral chapter of Lichfield Cathedral. He served in the household of Hubert Walter who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1193 to 1205. Pope Celestine III appointed Simon as a papal judge-delegate and Simon also served Walter in Rome on two legal cases. A number of the glosses on a late-twelfth-century copy of Gratian’s Decretum are ascribed to Simon.