(Duke of Lorraine) Simon I METZ #73388

1076 - 13 JAN 1138/39
TITLE Duke of Lorraine-
BIRTH 1076
DEATH 13 JAN 1138/39

Historical Notes

Founder of the House of Lorraine

Simon I was the duke of Lorraine from 1115 to his death, the eldest son and successor of Theodoric II and Hedwig of Formbach and a half-brother of Emperor Lothair III.

Continuing the policy of friendship with the Holy Roman Emperor, he accompanied the Emperor Henry V to the Diet of Worms of 1122, where the Investiture Controversy was resolved.

He had stormy relations with the episcopates of his realm: fighting with Stephen of Bar, bishop of Metz, and Adalberon, archbishop of Trier, both allies of the count of Bar, whose claim to Lorraine against Simon's father had been quashed by Henry V's father Henry IV. Though Adalberon excommunicated him, Pope Innocent II lifted it. He was a friend of Bernard of Clairvaux and he built many abbeys in his duchy, including that of Sturzelbronn in 1135. There was he interred after his original burial in Saint-Dié.

Marriage

Simon I of Lorraine married his step-sister, Adelaide, daughter of Henry III of Leuven.

Parents

Father : Theoderic II METZ #86341

Mother : Hedwig of FORMBACH #70671

Family 1

Adelaide of REGINAR

Children

  1. +Matthias I METZ
  2. +Agatha of METZ
  3.  Mathieu METZ
  4.  Hedwige of METZ
  5. +Bertha of METZ
  6.  Robert METZ
  7.  Baldwin METZ
  8.  John METZ

Lineage 

                                                   _Gerhard METZ _________________+
                                                  | (0985 - 1045)                 
                       _Gerhard METZ _____________|
                      | (1030 - 1070)             |
                      |                           |_Gisella of UNKNOWN ___________
                      |                                                           
 _Theoderic II METZ __|
| (1055 - 1115) m 1075|
|                     |                            _Albert II NAMUR ______________+
|                     |                           | (.... - 1067) m 1010          
|                     |_Hedwige of NAMUR _________|
|                                                 |
|                                                 |_Regelinde of ARDENNES-VERDUN _+
|                                                   (.... - 1067) m 1010          
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|--Simon I METZ 
|  (1076 - 1138)
|                                                  _Thiemo I FORMBACH ____________
|                                                 |                               
|                      _Frederick FORMBACH _______|
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|                     |                           |_X of BRUNONID ________________+
|                     |                                                           
|_Hedwig of FORMBACH _|
  (1058 - 1090) m 1075|
                      |                            _______________________________
                      |                           |                               
                      |_Gertrude of HALDENSLEBEN _|
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                                                  |_______________________________

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