Count Simon of Sponheim I

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Count Simon of Sponheim I

Simon was born in 1210 in Kreuznach, Rheinland, Prussia.¹ Simon's father was Count Gottfried of Sponheim III and his mother was Countess Adelheid of Sayn. His paternal grandparents were Count Gottfried of Sponheim II and <Unknown>; his maternal grandparents were Count Heinrich of Sayn II and Agnes von Saffenberg. He had four brothers named Marquard, Johann, Heinrich and Walram. He was the second youngest of the five children. He died at the age of 54 in 1264.¹

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Count Stefan of Sponheim ^*
  - b.1050 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia d.25 Feb 1118
  
  Meinhard of Sponheim
  - b.1085 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia d.28 Feb 1155
  
  Baroness Sofie von Hamm ^*
  - b.1060 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia d.1118
  
  Count Gottfried of Sponheim I
  - b.1115 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia
  
  Count Adalbert of Morsberg
  - b.1064 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia
  
  Countess Mathilde of Mhorsberg
  - b.1090 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia
  
  <Unknown>
  
  Count Gottfried of Sponheim II
  - b.1140 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia
  
  Thierry (The Brave) of Upper Lorraine II ^*
  - b.1060 in Lorraine, France d.23 Jan 1115 in Chatenois
  
  Duke Simon of Lorraine I
  - b.1088 d.1139
  
  Countess Hedwig of Formbach
  - b.1050 in Formbach, Germany d.1088
  
  Mathilde of Lorraine
  - b.1119 in Nancy, Meurthe Et Moselle, Lorraine, France
  
  Gebhard Supplinburg
  - b.1048 in Lorraine
  
  Adelheid de Louvain
  - b.1074 in Lorraine d.1160
  
  <Unknown>
  
  Count Gottfried of Sponheim III
  - b.1172 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia d.21 Apr 1223
  
  <Unknown>
  - b.1141 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia
  
  Count Simon of Sponheim I
  - b.1210 in Kreuznach, Rheinland, Prussia d.1264
  
  Count Heinrich of Diez I ^*
  - d.1117
  
  Count Embricho of Diez II
  - b.1115 d.1153
  
  <Unknown>
  
  Count Eberhard of Sayn I
  - d.1176
  
  Count Dudo of Laurenburg
  - b.1070 in Laurenburg, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia d.1124
  
  Countess Demudis of Laurenburg
  - b.1106 in Laurenburg, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia d.1169
  
  Countess Irmgard of Arnstein ^*
  - b.1074 in Arnstein Ad. Lahn, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia
  
  Count Heinrich of Sayn II
  - b.1154 in Sayn, Rheinland, Prussia
  
  <Unknown>
  
  Countess Adelheid of Sayn
  - b.1180 in Sayn, Rheinland, Prussia d.Dec 1263
  
  Agnes von Saffenberg
  - b.1158 in Sayn, Rheinland, Prussia
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

Details of Simon's family with Margarethe von Hengebach

¹ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=bevangenealogy&id=I32851&style=TABLE
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I32962

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Count Simon of Sponheim I

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Details of Simon's family with Margarethe von Hengebach