The House of Sponheim or Spanheim was a medieval

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noble family, which originated in

Rhenish Franconia Rhenish Franconia () or Western Franconia () denotes the western half of the central Kingdom of Germany, German stem duchy of Franconia in the 10th and 11th century, with its residence at the city of Worms, Germany, Worms. The territory located on ...

. They were immediate Counts of

Sponheim Sponheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate in western Germany. History Sponheim was the capital of the County of Sponheim. Sponheim Abbey There was a Benedictine abbey which was founded in 1101 by Steph ...

until 1437 and Dukes of

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from 1122 until 1269. Its cadet branches ruled in the

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Ortenburg-Neuortenburg The Imperial County of Ortenburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Lower Bavaria, Germany. It was located on the lands around Ortenburg Castle, about west of Passau. Though the Counts of Ortenburg—formerly ''Ortenberg''—em ...

and various

Sayn-Wittgenstein Sayn-Wittgenstein was a county of medieval Germany, located in the Sauerland of eastern North Rhine-Westphalia. History Sayn-Wittgenstein was created when Count Salentin of Sayn-Homburg (1314-1392), a member of the House of Sponheim, married ...

states State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

until 1806.

History

The family took its name from their ancestral seat at Sponheim Castle in the

Hunsrück The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced mountain range, upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle (river), Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued ...

range, in present-day

Burgsponheim Burgsponheim is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rüdesheim ...

near

Bad Kreuznach Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach (district), Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke (Bad Kreuznach), Alte Nahebrücke, ...

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. From the 11th century the family was divided in two closely related branches. One of these branches, probably the senior one, retained the Duchy of Carinthia and originated the County of Ortenburg in

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. The other one remained in Rhenish Franconia, retaining the County of Sponheim. The founder of the ducal branch was Count Siegfried I (1010–1065), a Ripuarian Frank by birth and retainer of the

Salian The Salian dynasty or Salic dynasty () was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages. The dynasty provided four kings of Germany (1024–1125), all of whom went on to be crowned Holy Roman emperors (1027–1125). After the death of the last Ottonian ...

emperor

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. For this reason the family is sometimes termed the Siegfrieding. Siegfried followed Conrad in his 1035 campaign against Duke Adalbero of Carinthia, who for unknown reasons had fallen out of favour with the emperor. By his marriage to Richgard, daughter of one Count Engelbert of the Bavarian

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noble family, he became heir to large territories in Carinthia and

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. In 1045 Siegfried received the title of a

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in the

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by Emperor Henry III. His sons Engelbert, Margrave in

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from 1090, and Hartwig founded

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on their mother's estates in 1091. When the ducal House of Eppenstein finally became extinct in 1122, Siegfried's grandson

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inherited the title and became the first Sponheim Duke of Carinthia as well as Margrave in the Italian

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. Upon his death only one year later, he was succeeded by his brother Engelbert, whose descendants ruled in Carinthia until the death of Duke Ulrich III in 1269. Engelbert's younger son Rapoto became the ancestor of the Bavarian Ortenburg dynasty. The Sponheim dukes tried to consolidate their possessions by being loyal liensmen of the Imperial

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, they nevertheless had to struggle with reluctant local nobles like the Carinthian Ortenburger. The margravial title in Verona was lost to Herman III of Baden in 1151. Under Bernhard of Sponheim, Carinthian duke from 1202 until 1256, the dynasty reached the height of its power. In 1213 he married Judith, a daughter of King

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, which affiliated the ducal line with the Czech royal

Přemyslid dynasty The Přemyslid dynasty or House of Přemysl (, , ) was a Bohemian royal dynasty that reigned in the Duchy of Bohemia and later Kingdom of Bohemia and Margraviate of Moravia (9th century–1306), as well as in parts of Poland (including Silesia ...

. Bernhard's son Ulrich III by marriage with

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in 1248 also inherited the title of a margrave in the adjacent

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. However, as he outlived his children, he bequested his Carinthian and Carniolan lands to his Přemyslid cousin King

Ottokar II of Bohemia Ottokar II (; , in Městec Králové, Bohemia – 26 August 1278, in Dürnkrut, Austria, Dürnkrut, Lower Austria), the Iron and Golden King, was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty who reigned as King of Bohemia from 1253 until his death in 1278 ...

according to a secret inheritance agreement of 1268. These estates were among the territories which

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after his election as

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in 1273 seized due to their acquisition in suspicious circumstances. The founder of the Rhenish branch was Count Stephan I of Sponheim (d. 1080), who may have been a 1st cousin, a son or a nephew of Siegfried. One of his successors Gottfried III (1183–1218) married Adelheid of Sayn, sister and heiress of the last Count of

Sayn Sayn was a small Germany, German county of the Holy Roman Empire which, during the Middle Ages, existed within what is today Rhineland-Palatinate, Rheinland-Pfalz. There have been two Counties of Sayn. The first emerged in 1139 and became closel ...

Henry II Henry II may refer to: Kings * Saint Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (972–1024), crowned King of Germany in 1002, of Italy in 1004 and Emperor in 1014 *Henry II of England (1133–89), reigned from 1154 *Henry II of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1271–1 ...

. In 1437 this branch's ruling male line in Sponheim died out, and female line descendants, namely the

Margraves of Baden The Margraviate of Baden () was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Spread along the right banks of the Upper Rhine in south-western Germany, it was named a margraviate in 1112 and existed until 1535, when it was split into the two ...

and the Counts Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, took on the title of Count to Sponheim, along with the

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, who had received a small part as dowry.

Rupert of Germany Rupert of the Palatinate (; 5 May 1352 – 18 May 1410), sometimes known as Robert of the Palatinate, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was Elector Palatine from 1398 (as Rupert III) and King of Germany from 1400 until his death. Early ...

's firstborn Rupert Pipan married Elisabeth of Sponheim-Kreuznach; the marriage remained childless. The branch of the Counts of Ortenburg is still living today in Tambach (Bavaria). A lateral line of the Rhenish branch survives also with the Princes of

Genealogy

Ducal line

# Siegfried I (d. 1065), Count in the

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, Margrave of the

## Hartwig (d. 1102), Archbishop of

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## Engelbert I (d. 1096), Margrave of

### Bernhard of Trixen (d. 1147) ### Richardis (d. about 1112), married to Margrave Poppo II of Carniola ### Henry IV (1065/70–1123), Duke of

and Margrave of

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###

Engelbert II Engelbert II may refer to: * Engelbert II of Istria (died 1141) * Engelbert II, Count of Gorizia (died 1191) * Engelbert II of Berg (1185 or 1186 – 1225) * Engelbert II of Falkenburg (1220–1274), Archbishop of Cologne * Engelbert II of the Mar ...

(d. 1141), Margrave of

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and Istria, Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona #### Ulrich I (d. 1144), Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona #####

Henry V Henry V may refer to: People * Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026) * Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125) * Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161) * Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (–1227) * Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1216–1281 ...

(d. 1161), Duke of Carinthia, Margrave of Verona until 1151 ##### Herman II (d. 1181), Duke of Carinthia ###### Ulrich II (1176–1202), Duke of Carinthia ######

Bernhard Bernhard is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), Duke of Saxe-Weimar *Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 1946 ...

(c. 1180–1256), Duke of Carinthia ####### Ulrich III (c. 1220–1269), Margrave of Carniola since 1248, Duke of Carinthia, married to

and secondly to Agnes of

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#######

Philip Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Macedonian Old Koine language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominen ...

(d. 1279) Archbishop-elect of

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, Patriarch of

Aquileia Aquileia is an ancient Roman city in Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about from the sea, on the river Natiso (modern Natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times. Today, the city is small ( ...

##### Ulrich, Count of Laibach (Ljubljana), but predeceased his eldest brother. ##### Godfrey (Gottfried) became a monk, but predeceased his father. #####

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became the Patriarch of Aquileia. #### Engelbert III (1124–1173), Margrave of Istria, Margrave of

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#### Henry (d. 1169), Bishop of

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#### Rapoto (d. 1186), Count of Ortenburg, founder of the ''House of Ortenburg'' #### Adelheid (d. 1178), Abbess at Göss #### Hartwig II (d. 1164), Bishop of

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####

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(d. 1160/61), married to Count

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### Siegfried II (d. 1132), Count at Lebenau ### Hartwig I (d. 1126), Bishop of Regensburg # Frederick (1022–1058) # Eberhard

Comital line

# Stephan I (d. about 1080), probably a cousin or brother of Siegfried I ## Stephan II (d. about 1118), probably married to

Sophia of Formbach Sophia of Formbach (also Sophia of Vormbach) ( – after 1088), was the daughter of Meginhard IV of Formbach. She was countess of Salm through her marriage to Hermann of Salm, who was also elected German anti-king from 1081 to 1088. Life Sophia ...

, widow of Count

Hermann of Salm Herman(n) of Salm ( – 28 September 1088), also known as Herman(n) of Luxembourg, the progenitor of the House of Salm, was Count of Salm and elected German anti-king from 1081 until his death. Life Hermann was a son of Count Giselbert of ...

, German anti-king from 1081 ### Meginhard I (d. 1136/45), married to Mechtild, daughter of Count Adalbert II of Nellenburg ####Godfrey I (d. after 1159), probably married to Matilda (Mechtild), daughter of Duke

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#####Godfrey II, probably married to a daughter of Count Gerlach of

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######Godfrey III (c. 1175–1218), married to Adelheid, sister of Count Henry III of

, died in the

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#######John I of Sponheim-

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(c. 1206-1266), Count of Sayn from 1263, probably married to a daughter of Count

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, see Sponheim-Starkenburg below #######Henry (d. 1259), married to Agnes of

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#######Simon I of Sponheim-Kreuznach (c. 1210-1264), married to Margaret of

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, see Sponheim-Kreuznach below ###Gerhard I, probably married to a daughter of Count Bertolph of

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###Hugo (d. 1137), Archbishop of

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### Jutta (1091–1136), Abbess at

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Sponheim-Starkenburg

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(c. 1206-1266), Count of

from 1263, probably married to a daughter of Count

##Godfrey I of

Sponheim-Sayn Sponheim-Sayn was a county of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was created as a partition of Sponheim-Starkenburg in 1261, and it comprised the lands of the former county of Sayn. In 1283, it was divided into Sayn and ...

(d. 1284), married to Jutta of Isenburg ### John II of Sayn-Sayn ### Engelbert of

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, ancestor of the ''House of

'' ##Henry I (c. 1235-1289), married to Blancheflor, daughter of Count William IV of Jülich ###John II (c. 1265-1324), married to Catherine of

####

(c. 1292-1323), married to

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of Salm ##### John III (c. 1315-1398), married to Mechtild of the Palatinate, niece of Emperor Louis IV ######John IV (c. 1338-1413/14), married to Elizabeth, daughter of Count Walram of Sponheim-Kreuznach (see below) #######John V (c. 1359-1437), also Count of Sponheim-Kreuznach from 1417, married to Walburg of Leiningen, died childless ######Mechtild (d. 1407/10), married to Margrave Rudolf VI of Baden ######Loretta, married to Count Henry III of Veldenz #######Frederick III of Veldenz (d. 1444) ######## Anna of Veldenz (c. 1390-1439), married to Count Palatine Stephen of Simmern-Zweibrücken Wappen Vordere Grafschaft Sponheim

Sponheim-
Kreuznach Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in the world wi ...

#Simon I (c. 1210-1264), married to Margaret of

(c. 1245-1290), married to Adelheid of Leiningen ###John II (c. 1270-1340), unmarried ### Simon II at

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(c. 1270-1336), married to Elizabeth of Valkenburg ####Walram (c. 1305-1380), married to Elizabeth of

Katzenelnbogen Katzenelnbogen () is the name of a castle and small town in the district of Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Katzenelnbogen is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Aar-Einrich. History Katzenelnbog ...

#####Simon III (c. 1330-1414), married to Maria of Vianden, died without male heirs ######Elizabeth (d. 1417), married to Count

Engelbert III of the Mark Engelbert III of the Mark (1333–1391) was the Count of Mark from 1347 until 1391. Adolph was the eldest son of Count Adolph II of the Marck and Margaret of Cleves. After his father died in 1347, Engelbert III ruled the County of Mark, mainly f ...

, secondly to Prince Ruprecht Pipan, son of Rupert of the Palatinate #####Elizabeth, married to Count John IV of Sponheim-Starkenburg (see above)

Sources

* Freed, John B
"Reflections on the Medieval German Nobility."
''The American Historical Review'', Vol. 91, No. 3. (Jun., 1986), pp 553–575. * Genealogia Sponhemica. Archiv für rheinische Geschichte Coblenz, 1.1833 - 2.1835. Zweiter Teil 1835. http://www.dilibri.de/rlb/periodical/pageview/27862

Footnotes

External links

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Genealogy at genealogie-mittelalter.de
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Site of the Countly House of Ortenburg-Tambach
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