Simon I. (Sponheim-Kreuznach)

Simon I (* 1210/15; † April 8, 1264 ) was the third youngest son and heir to his father Gottfried III. first ruling count of the front county of Sponheim .

Live and act

Simon I married Margarete von Heimbach ( Hengebach ) called Hoen zu Lövenich in 1244 . In 1246, Elect (Bishop) Heinrich von Leiningen enfeoffed Margarete, wife of the Count of Sponheim, her daughter and future heir with a fief at Kreuznach. Under Simon I and his two brothers Johann and Heinrich , the county of Sponheim was divided into a front and a rear county of Sponheim. Through her mother, Adelheid von Sayn († 1263), the county of Sayn was inherited by the von Sponheim family in 1247. Heinrich married the heir to the Heinsberg estate . Another half-brother Eberhard V. von Eberstein (through a second marriage of Adelheid von Sayn with Eberhard IV. Von Eberstein ) was also taken into account in the division. The inheritance of the rule Heinsberg and the county Sayn was taken into account when the county Sponheim was divided. Areas were moved several times to compensate for the resulting parts. The exact time of the division is not known, but must have occurred between 1223 and 1237. Simon I received 2/3 of the county of Sponheim: the front county. His older brother Johann received 1/3 of the county: the back county and large parts of the county of Sayn. Heinrich took over the rule of Heinsberg and small parts of the County of Sayn. The half-brother Eberhard was originally supposed to take over the County of Sayn, but this plan was not implemented due to his early death in 1253. Simon I was buried in the so-called monastery church in Pfaffen-Schwabenheim ; his tomb has not been preserved.

progeny

Count Johann I.
Imagina ∞ Walter Herr von Geroldseck
Heinrich I, founder of the Sponheim-Bolanden-Dannenfels line ∞ Kunigunde von Bolanden
Mechthild ∞ Count Friedrich von Leiningen
Eberhard, founder of the Neef line
Luther

literature

Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2001, ISBN 3-515-07878-9 ( Google Books )

Individual evidence

↑ Document from 1246; State archive NRW Rhineland Duisburg department (Heinsberg, documents no. 1). The witnesses were Simons I's stepfather and also uncle Heinrichs Graf Eberhard (IV.) Von Eberstein (married to Adelheid von Sayn, widowed Countess von Sponheim), Heinrichs brother Graf Friedrich von Leiningen , the “uncle” (relative of the grandmother) of the bishop Berchtold von Andechs-Meranien († 1251), Patriarch of Aquileia, the uncle Raugraf Heinrich by marriage and Wildgraf Emich the Elder. J. (Emich II. Von Kyrburg († before 1284), a son of Gisela von Saarbrücken-Leiningen († after 1265), an aunt of the bishop).

predecessor	Office	successor
Gottfried III.	Count of Sponheim 1223-1264	Johann I.

personal data
SURNAME	Simon I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of the front county of Sponheim
DATE OF BIRTH	between 1210 and 1215
DATE OF DEATH	April 8, 1264

[1] Document from 1246; State archive NRW Rhineland Duisburg department (Heinsberg, documents no. 1). The witnesses were Simons I's stepfather and also uncle Heinrichs Graf Eberhard (IV.) Von Eberstein (married to Adelheid von Sayn, widowed Countess von Sponheim), Heinrichs brother Graf Friedrich von Leiningen , the “uncle” (relative of the grandmother) of the bishop Berchtold von Andechs-Meranien († 1251), Patriarch of Aquileia, the uncle Raugraf Heinrich by marriage and Wildgraf Emich the Elder. J. (Emich II. Von Kyrburg († before 1284), a son of Gisela von Saarbrücken-Leiningen († after 1265), an aunt of the bishop).