List of the Counts of Saarbrücken
The list of Counts of Saarbrücken introduces the former Saargaugrafen who ruled over the county of Saarbrücken .
history
In 1080 Siegbert is mentioned for the first time as a count in Saargau , when he was presented with Wadgassen by King Heinrich IV . Count Simon III. laid down the succession for his two daughters Lauretta and Mathilde in a contract of inheritance with Bishop Johann von Metz in 1227. When the county went to Mathilde in 1271, however, the new bishop, Lorenz, objected to the female succession. Mathilde took in league with Duke Friedrich III. of Lorraine took up the fight for their inheritance and was excommunicated for it . The hereditary battles dragged on until after her death, but in the end her son, Simon, was able to prevail. A younger son of Count Johann I founded the Saarbrücken-Commercy line, which in 1417 came into the possession of the County of Roucy .
Through the marriage of Countess Johanna with Count Johann I von Nassau-Weilburg , Saarbrücken came into the possession of the House of Nassau . Because this latter Johann is sometimes called Johann III. is counted (although he was never the ruling Count of Saarbrücken), is sometimes Johann III. von Nassau-Saarbrücken also counted as Johann IV.
Saarbrücken
- 1080–1105 Siegbert , Count in the (lower) Saargau
- 1105–1135 Friedrich son
- 1135–1182 Simon I son
- 1182–1207 Simon II. Son ∞ Liutgard von Leiningen
- 1207-1245 Simon III. Son (his brother Friedrich, from 1214 Count of Leiningen, founded the still thriving in the male line of the line Leininger )
- 1245–1271 Lauretta daughter
- 1240–1250 Gottfried II of Apremont was Lauretta's first husband
- 1252–1260 Dietrich Luf von Kleve, Lauretta's second husband
- 1271–1274 Mathilde Lauretta's sister ∞ Simon III. by Commercy
Broyes-Commercy
- 1271–1308 Simon IV. Son of Mr. Simon II. Von Commercy and Countess Mathilde von Saarbrücken
- 1308–1342 Johann I son
- 1342–1381 Johann II. Grandson ∞ Gille von Bar † 1362
- 1381–1381 Johanna daughter
Nassau-Saarbrücken
- 1381–1442 Philip I, son of Count Johann I von Nassau-Weilburg and Countess Johanna von Saarbrücken-Commercy
- 1442–1472 Johann II./III. son
- 1472–1545 Johann Ludwig Sohn
- 1545–1554 son of Philip II
- 1554–1574 Johann III./IV. Brothers
- 1575-1602 Philip III. from the Nassau-Weilburg line
- 1602–1627 Ludwig II. Nephew
- 1627–1640 Wilhelm Ludwig Sohn
- 1640–1642 Kraft son
- 1659–1677 Gustav Adolf son of Wilhelm Ludwig
- 1677–1713 Ludwig Kraft son
- 1713–1723 Karl Ludwig son of Gustav Adolf
- 1723–1728 Friedrich Ludwig from the Nassau-Ottweiler line
- 1741-1768 Wilhelm Heinrich son of Wilhelm Heinrich von Nassau-Usingen the Elder. Ä. , 1st prince
- 1768–1794 Ludwig Sohn
- Heinrich (Ludwig Karl Albrecht) Hereditary Prince, never reigned
