Monika E Simon

Monika E Simon was born as the third of four sisters in 1969 in a small city in southern Bavaria. Interested in history from an early age, she studied Medieval History, Ancient History, and English Linguistics and Middle English Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtität in Munich. For her MA thesis she researched the life of the tenth-century Empress Adelheid. Having spent a year of her studies at the University of York (Yorkshire), fell in love with the city, and decided to transfer there for her doctoral thesis. For her DPhil thesis she studied the history of the Lovells of Titchmarsh which she submitted in 1999.

In 2001, after two years in London, Monika E Simon returned to Munich, where she has lived since, working in a variety of jobs.

She has continued to research a variety of historical subjects, including but not limited to Magna Carta, medieval women, Henry the Lion, Swiss and Finnish history. She has also published a small number of articles about the Lovell family.

'From Robber Barons to Courtiers. The Changing World of the Lovells of Titchmarsh' is her first book.