Simon I of Saarbrücken (died after 1183) was a German nobleman. He was the second ruling
Count of Saarbrücken (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''; ; ; is a cultural and historical region in Eastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est. Its name stems from the medieval kingdom of ...
(b.c. 1100), daughter of
Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine
Theodoric II (died 30 December 1115), called the Valiant, was the Duke of Lorraine from 1070 to his death. He was the son and successor of Gerhard and Hedwige of Namur. He is sometimes numbered ''Theodoric I'' if the Dukes of the House of Ardenn ...
. He succeeded his father as Count of
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...
in 1135. His younger brother
Adalbert II became
Archbishop of Mainz 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
The County of Zweibrücken () was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire named for Zweibrücken in which is now situated in the Rhineland-Palatinate. It was created sometime between 1182 and 1190 from an inheritance division of the county of Saarbr ...
.
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
The County of Leiningen was a territory comprising a group of counties—some of which held Imperial immediacy—that were ruled by the Leiningen family.
Most of these counties were annexed by the First French Republic in 1793, following the con ...
.
*
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
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in
Mainz
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* 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
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Arts and entertainment ...
(1140-1121)
* Agnes (d.b. 1180), married Günther III, Count of
Schwarzburg (d.a. 1197)
External links
* Biography of Simon von Saarbrücken b
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands
Counts of Saarbrücken
12th-century births
Year of birth unknown
1183 deaths
12th-century German nobility
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