Fourth Generation  

9. Duke Simon I de METZ de Lorraine [123707] (Theodoric II de Lorraine (Duke)⁵, Gerard IV de Lorraine (Duke)³, Gerard de Metz & Alsace (Comte)¹) was born about 1076 in Lorraine Grand Est France and died on 31 Jan 1139 in Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle Lorraine France aged about 63.

General Notes: Wikipedia says,
Simon I (1076 \endash 13 or 14 January 1139) was the duke of Lorraine from 1115 to his death, the eldest son and successor of Theodoric II and Hedwig of Formbach and a half-brother of Emperor Lothair III.[1]

Continuing 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.

Simon married Adelaide de REGINAR de Leuven [123708]. Adelaide was born between 1072 and 1088 in Hainaut Walloon Region Belgium and died on 4 Nov 1158 in Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle Lorraine France.

The child from this marriage was:

+ 11    i. Duke Mathieu I de LORRAINE of Upper Lorraine [123226] was born about 1110 in Lorraine Grand Est France and died on 13 May 1176 in Lorraine Grand Est France aged about 66.