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Male Count Ludwig of Sponheim Click to view Count Ludwig of Sponheim in the family tree

Ludwig was born in 1146 in Burgsponheim, Rheinland, Prussia.1   Ludwig's father was Count Gottfried of Sponheim I and his mother was Mathilde of Lorraine.  His paternal grandparents were Meinhard of Sponheim and Countess Mathilde of Mhorsberg; his maternal grandparents were Duke Simon of Lorraine I and Adelheid de Louvain. He had three brothers named Gottfried, Heinrich and Simon.  He was the youngest of the four children.

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I32979

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