Simon I of Saarbrücken (died after 1183) was a German nobleman. He was the second ruling
Count of Saarbrücken
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(de), in office 1135 - 1183.
Life
Simon was a son of
Frederick, Count of Saarbrücken (d. 1135) and his wife Gisela of
Lorraine
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of G ...
(b.c. 1100), daughter of
Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine. He succeeded his father as Count of
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is ...
in 1135. His younger brother
Adalbert II became
Archbishop of Mainz
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in 1138.
After his death, the county was divided. His eldest son,
Simon II inherited a smaller County of Saarbrücken; his younger son
Henry I founded the new
County of Zweibrücken.
Marriage and issue
Simon was married to a Mathilda, probably a daughter of Count Meginhard I of Sponheim. They had the following children together:
*
Simon II (de) (d.a. 1207), successor as Count. He married b. 1180 to Liutgard (d.a. 1239), a daughter or other close relative to Emich III, Count of
Leiningen. One of their sons was
Simon III, another was Friedrich III (d. 1237), who inherited the
County of Leiningen.
*
Henry I (de) (d. 1228), married Hedwig (d.a. 1228), a daughter of
Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine. He became
Count of Zweibrücken.
* Frederick (d.b. 1187)
* Gottfried, a
canon in
Mainz
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Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...
* Adalbert (d.a. 1210),
archdeacon
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in Mainz
* Jutta (d.b. 1223), married Folmar II, Count of
Blieskastel, son of Folmar I (d.a. 1179), and
Clementia of Metz.
* Sophie (d.a. 1215), married
Henry III, Duke of Limburg (1140-1121)
* Agnes (d.b. 1180), married Günther III, Count of
Schwarzburg (d.a. 1197)
External links
genealogie-mittelalter.de*
Counts of Saarbrücken
12th-century births
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
1183 deaths
12th-century German nobility
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