Stephen II (died 1096) was a German nobleman and an early member of the
House of Sponheim
The House of Sponheim or Spanheim was a medieval German noble family, which originated in Rhenish Franconia. They were immediate Counts of Sponheim until 1437 and Dukes of Carinthia from 1122 until 1269. Its cadet branches ruled in the Imperial ...
. He succeeded his father,
Stephen I, as count of Sponheim around 1080. Around 1092 Stephen married
Sophia of Formbach.
[Hlawitschka, ‘Verwandtenehe’.] Stephen had several children with Sophia, including
Meginard I, who succeeded him as count of Sponheim and
Jutta, abbess of the Benedictine monastery on
Disibodenberg and teacher of
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen (german: Hildegard von Bingen; la, Hildegardis Bingensis; 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher ...
.
References
*E. Hlawitschka, 'Die 'Verwandtenehe' des Gegenkönigs Hermann von Salm und seiner Frau Sophie. Ein Beitrag zu den Familienbeziehungen der rheinischen Ezzonen/Hezeliniden und des Grafenhauses von Formbach/Vormbach,' in ''Festschrift für Andreas Kraus zum 80. Geburtstag. Schriftenreihe zur bayerischen Landesgeschichte, Band 140'', (Verlag C.H. Beck München 2002).
* J. Mötsch, ‘Genealogie der Grafen von Sponheim,’ ''Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte'' 13 (1987), 63-179.
Notes
11th-century births
1096 deaths
Year of birth unknown
House of Sponheim
Counts of Germany
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