Simon I, Count of Saarbrücken

Simon I, Count of Saarbrücken
Died	after 1183
Noble family	House of Saarbrücken
Spouse(s)	Mathilda of Sponheim
Father	Frederick, Count of Saarbrücken
Mother	Gisela of Lorraine

Simon I of Saarbrücken (died after 1183) was a German nobleman. He was the second ruling Count of Saarbrücken , in office 1135 - 1183.

Simon was a son of Frederick, Count of Saarbrücken (d. 1135) and his wife Gisela of Lorraine (b.c. 1100), daughter of Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine. He succeeded his father as Count of Saarbrücken in 1135. His younger brother Adalbert II became Archbishop of Mainz in 1138.

After his death, the county was divided. His eldest son, Simon II inherited a smaller County of Saarbrücken; his younger son Henry I founded the new County of Zweibrücken.

Simon was married to a Mathilda, probably a daughter of Count Meginhard I of Sponheim. They had the following children together:

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