Noble family House of Metz Spouse Adelaide of Leuven Name Simon Duke | Buried Saint-Die Mother Hedwige of Formbach | |
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Father Thierry II, Duke of Lorraine Died April 13, 1138, Nancy, France Parents Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine Children Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine, Agatha of Lorraine Grandchildren Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, Simon II, Duke of Lorraine, Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine | ||
Grandparents Gerard, 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 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
Simon I of Lorraine married Adelaide, daughter of Henry III of Leuven. Their children were: