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Birth:          1076 Lorraine
Death:          13 Apr 1138 

Notes
founded the Abbey at Sturzelbronn, 1135
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_I,_Duke_of_Lorraine
Simon I (1076 – 13 April 1138) was the duke of Lorraine from 1115 to his death, the 
eldest son and successor of Thierry II and Hedwige of Formbach.

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[edit]

Simon I of Lorraine married Adelaide, daughter of Henry III of Leuven. Their children 
were:
Matthias, his successor in Lorraine
Robert, lord of Floranges (near Thionville)
Agatha of Lorraine, married Reginald III, Count of Burgundy (Renaud III), the first Free 
Count
Hedwige, married Frederick III, count of Toul
Bertha, married Margrave Hermann III of Baden
Mathilde, married Gottfried I, Count of Sponheim
Baldwin
John

Parents
OF ALSACE Theodoric II (Dietrich) (Thierry) (ABT 1050 - 30 Dec 1115)
VON FORMBACH Hedwig (ABT 1058 - ABT 1088)

Siblings
OF ALSACE Simon I (1076 - 13 Apr 1138)
OF ALSACE Gertrude (chg to Petronilla) (ABT 1082 - 24 May 1144)

Marriage To DE LOUVAIN Adelaide (Adelheid) (ABT 1085 - ABT 1160)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Henry III (ABT 1065 - 1095)
DE FLANDERS Gertrude (ABT 1070 - 1117)

Children by DE LOUVAIN Adelaide (Adelheid) ABT 1085 - ABT 1160
OF ALSACE Matthias I (1119 - 13 May 1176)
OF LORRAINE Agatha (ABT 1120 - Apr 1147)

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