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Simon I, Duke of Lorraine

{{Short description|Duke of Lorraine from 1115 to 1139}}

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| name = Simon I

| image = Simon I, Duke of Lorraine.png

| caption = + SYMON GRA[TIA] D[E]I LOTHARINGORUM DUX ET MARCHIO

| succession = Duke of Lorraine

| reign = 1115 - 1138

| predecessor = Theodoric II

| successor = Matthias I

| house = Metz

| father = Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine

| mother = Hedwig of Formbach

| spouse = Adelaide of Leuven

| issue = Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine
Agatha of Lorraine

| birth_date = 1076

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date|1139|1|13|df=y}}

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| burial_place = Saint-Dié}}

Simon I (1076 – 13 or 14 January 1139) 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.{{sfn|Bogdan|2007|p=34}}

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.

Children of Simon and Adelaide

Simon I of Lorraine married his step-sister, Adelaide,{{sfn|Bogdan|2007|p=35}} daughter of Henry III of Leuven. Their children were:

See also

References

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Sources

  • {{cite book |title=La Lorraine des ducs |first=Henry |last=Bogdan |language=French |publisher=Perrin |year=2007 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Essays in History Presented to Reginald Lane Poole |chapter=England and Burgundy in the last decade of the twelfth century |first=Austin Lane |last=Poole |pages=261–273 |editor-first=H.W.C. |editor-last=Davis |publisher=Oxford at the Clarendon Press |year=1927 }}

External links

  • {{in lang|de}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070312184007/http://www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/lothringen/simon_1_herzog_von_ober_lothringen_1139_chatenois/simon_1_herzog_von_oberlothringen_+_1139.html genealogie-mittelalter.de]

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Category:Dukes of Upper Lorraine

Category:1076 births

Category:1139 deaths

Category:People excommunicated by the Catholic Church

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