Sophia of Formbach
{{Short description|Countess of Salm (c. 1050–1088)}}
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{{infobox noble
| name = Sophia of Formbach
| noble family =
| father = Meginhard IV of Formbach
| mother = Mathilde von Reinhausen
| spouse = Hermann of Salm
| issue =Otto I, Count of Salm
Hermann II of Salm
| birth_date = {{circa|1050/5}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = after 1088
| death_place =
}}
Sophia of Formbach (also Sophia of Vormbach) ({{circa|1050/5}} – after 1088), was the daughter of Meginhard IV of Formbach. She was countess of Salm through her marriage to Hermann of Salm, who was also elected German anti-king from 1081 to 1088.
Life
Sophia was the daughter of Meginhard IV of Formbach and Matilda of Reinhausen, a daughter of Count Elli.Mötsch, ‘Genealogie,’ p. 75.
Sophia married Hermann of Salm. The couple were closely related and there were attempts to separate them on these grounds.Hlawitschka, ‘Verwandtenehe’. Hermann died in 1088. It is sometimes said that Sophia married for a second time around 1092 to Stephan II, Count of Sponheim, although this is not certain.Hlawitschka, ‘Verwandtenehe’.
Sophia, like the rest of her natal dynasty (the Formbachs), was a patron of Göttweig Abbey.Monumenta Boica, Vol. XXIX, Pars altera, Codex Pataviensis, p. 55 (23 September 1088).
Children
With her first husband, Hermann, Sophia had the following children:
- Otto I, Count of Salm
- Hermann II of Salm (1087–1135)
- Dietrich of Salm (fl. 1095)
If she married Stephan II of Sponheim, then Sophia was also the mother of:
- Meginhard I, Count of Sponheim
- Jutta (1090-1136), founder of the female convent at the abbey of Disibodenberg[https://books.google.com/books?id=L_WL9R92dF4C&dq=sophia+of+formbach&pg=PA66 Vita domnae Juttae inclusae, ch. II, tr. A. Silvas, p. 66.]
- Hugh of Sponheim, archbishop of Cologne (1137)
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: 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.
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External links
- [http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/deutschland_koenige_2/sophie_deutsche_koenigin_formacher_luxemburger/sophia_deutsche_gegenkoenigin.html genealogie-mittelalter Sophia of Formbach] (in German)
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Category:11th-century German nobility
Category:11th-century German women