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(Duke of Lorraine) Simon I ARDENNES-METZ #73388
1076 - 13 JAN 1138/39
Personal Information
- TITLE: Duke of Lorraine
- BIRTH: 1076
- DEATH: 13 JAN 1138/39
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.
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 ARDENNES-METZ #70258
Mother: Hedwig of FORMBACH #70671
Family 1 :
_Gerhard III GIRARDID _________+
| (0985 - 1045)
_Gerard I ARDENNES-METZ ___|
| (1030 - 1070) |
| |_Gisella of UNKNOWN ___________
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_Theoderic II ARDENNES-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 ARDENNES-METZ
| (1076 - 1138)
| _Thiemo I FORMBACH ____________
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| _Frederick FORMBACH _______|
| | |
| | |_X of BRUNONID ________________+
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|_Hedwig of FORMBACH _________|
(1058 - 1090) m 1075 |
| _______________________________
| |
|_Gertrude of HALDENSLEBEN _|
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|_______________________________