Stephan I, Count of Sponheim

Stephan I, Count of Sponheim (d. ca. 1080) is the patriarch of the Rhenish branch of the House of Sponheim, which ruled over the County of Sponheim. He was closely related to Siegfried I, Count of Sponheim, patriarch of the Carinthian Sponheimish branch, but the exact relationship between the two dynasts is disputed. Johannes Trithemius credits a Count Eberhard of Sponheim as founder of the Abbey of Sponheim and dates the founding to 1044, position questioned by Johannes Mötsch.[1] The Genealogia Sponhemica presents Count Eberhardus as son of Countess Hedwig and father of a single Count Stephanus I/II of Sponheim (). Donald C. Jackman considers Stephan I a son of Siegfried I. Both Jackman and Josef Heinzelmann consider Stephan as being identical to Stephan, Vogt of Worms documented with his brother Markward in 1068. Heinzelmann however casts doubt on a male lineage relationship of Stephan and Siegfried and sees Stephan I of Sponheim as being Lord of Sponheim but not a Count, notices that Stephan I of Sponheim documented 1075 as "S(igna) Stephani de Spanheim" with his seal in a document of Udo, Archbishop of Trier, and proposes Stephan to having married into the House of Sponheim.[2] In another work[3] Heinzelmann considers the Stephan mentioned in 1075 to be Stephan II, or maybe a single Stephan, mentions a Mainzer ministerialis Stephan, the son of Embricho (Emich) and nephew of Archbishop Ruthard, which lived later, as a possible relation, and puts forward that the documented Stephan and Markward belong to the House of the Counts of Metz/Lunéville, which later provided the Vogts of Worms:

"Identisch kann er sein mit einem Wormser Vogt Stephan (1068) [239 UB Stadt Worms I, Nr. 55], der mit seinem Bruder Markwart zu den Grafen von Lunéville/Metz zu gehören scheint, die mit den de Meti später die Wormser Vögte stellen."

Stephan I's wife is supposed to have been a sister of Count Berthold IV of Stromberg.[4] The Berthold-Bezelin dynasty in Stromberg and its relation to the original Berthold-Bezelin dynasty of Trechirgau is discussed by Heinzelmann,[5] which proposes Berthold of Stromberg to be an Emichone with a maternal heritage of the Bertholde/Beceline from Trechirgau.

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  1. ↑ (German) Mitteilungen der Residenzen-Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Heft 16/1, 2006. http://resikom.adw-goettingen.gwdg.de/MRK/MRK16-1.htm
  2. ↑ (German) Heinzelmann, Josef. Spanheimer-Späne -- Schachwappen und Konradinererbe. http://www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/heinzelmann_josef/spanheimer_spaene.html
  3. ↑ (German) Heinzelmann, Josef. Hildegard von Bingen und ihre Verwandten -- Genealogische Anmerkungen. http://www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/heinzelmann_josef/hildegard_von_bingen.html
  4. ↑ Jackman, Donald C.. Stromburg. Medieval German Counties. Medieval Prosopography. http://www.enlaplage.com/prosop/counts/countyA/county85.htm
  5. ↑ (German) Heinzelmann, Josef. Ludwig von Arnstein und seine Verwandtschaft -- Zur mitteleuropäischen Adelsgeschichte um 1100. http://www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/heinzelmann_josef/ludwig_von_arnstein.html

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Preceded by:

Stephan I

Succeeded by:

Siegfried I Count of Sponheim
?–ca. 1080		 Stephan II
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