Simon Rinalducci was born in Todi (Perugia), Italy, in the second half of the thirteenth century and joined the Augustinian Order about 1280. He devoted himself particularly to the study of theology and was engaged in the ministry of preaching with great success. He was also prior provincial of the Province of Umbria as well as prior of several monasteries. At the general chapter held at Rimini in 1318, he was the object of serious but unjust changes by some of his fellow religious. The great historian and recorder of events, Jordon of Saxony, recalls this episode in his book Life of the Brethren: