See also
| Husband: | Simon I + (1080-1138) | |
| Wife: | Adelheid + of LORRAINE (1074-1160) | |
| Children: | Agatha + of LORRAINE (1119-1147) | |
| Matthias I + (1119-1176) | ||
| Mathilde of LORRAINE (1121- ) | ||
| Robert (c. 1123- ) | ||
| Hedwige (c. 1125- ) | ||
| Baldwin (c. 1127- ) | ||
| Bertha of LORRAINE (1128- ) | ||
| John (c. 1128- ) | ||
| Name: | Simon I + | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Theodoric II + (1055-1115) | |
| Mother: | Hedwig + (1055-1088) | |
| Birth | 1080 | |
| Occupation | Duke of Lorraine | |
| Title | frm 1115 to 13 Apr 1138 (age 34-58) | Duke of Lorraine |
| Death | 13 Apr 1138 (age 57-58) | |
| Burial | Abbey of Sturzelbronn | |
| Name: | Adelheid + of LORRAINE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Baldwin II + (1061-1098) | |
| Mother: | Ida + of LORRAINE (1063-1103) | |
| Birth | 1074 | Lorraine, Moselle, France |
| Death | 1160 (age 85-86) | |
| Name: | Agatha + of LORRAINE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Raimon III + (1093-1148) | |
| Birth | 1119 | Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France |
| Death | 1147 (age 27-28) | |
| Name: | Matthias I + | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Bertha + of SWABIA (1125- ) | |
| Birth | 1119 | Lorraine, Moselle, France |
| Occupation | Duke of Lorraine | |
| Title | Duke of Lorraine | |
| Death | 13 May 1176 (age 56-57) | |
| Name: | Mathilde of LORRAINE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1121 | |
| Name: | Robert | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1123 (est) | |
| Occupation | Lord of Floranges | |
| Name: | Hedwige | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Frederick III (c. 1120- ) | |
| Birth | 1125 (est) | |
| Name: | Baldwin | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1127 (est) | |
| Name: | Bertha of LORRAINE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1128 | |
| Name: | John | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1128 (est) | |
Simon I (1076 – 13 April 1138) was the duke of Lorraine from 1115 to his death, the eldest son and successor of Thierry II and Hedwige of Formbach.
Continuating 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.
[edit] Children of Simon and AdelaideSimon I of Lorraine married Adelaide, daughter of Henry III of Leuven. Their children were:
Matthias, his successor in Lorraine
Robert, lord of Floranges (near Thionville)
Agatha of Lorraine, married Reginald III, Count of Burgundy (Renaud III), the first Free Count
Hedwige, married Frederick III, count of Toul
Bertha, married Margrave Hermann III of Baden
Mathilde, married Gottfried I, Count of Sponheim
Baldwin
John