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Simon I, Duke of Lorraine

Simon I, Duke of Lorraine

Duke of Lorraine

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.[1]

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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 Adelaide,[2] daughter of Henry III of Leuven. Their children were:

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Bogdan 2007, p. 34.
  2. [2]
    Bogdan 2007, p. 35.
  3. [3]
    Bogdan 2007, p. 36.
  4. [4]
    Poole 1927, p. 267.

Sources

  • Bogdan, Henry (2007). La Lorraine des ducs (in French). Perrin.
  • Poole, Austin Lane (1927). "England and Burgundy in the last decade of the twelfth century". In Davis, H.W.C. (ed.). Essays in History Presented to Reginald Lane Poole. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. pp. 261–273.
Simon I, Duke of Lorraine
House of Metz
Born: 1076 Died: 13 April 1138
Preceded by Duke of Lorraine
1115–1138		 Succeeded by


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