Simon III, Count of Saarbrücken

Simon III of Saarbrücken
Count of Saarbrücken Graf von Saarbrücken
Count of Saarbrücken
Reign	1207-1243
Born	b. 1180
Died	c. 1240
Spouse	Lauretta of Upper Lorraine
Issue	Dietrich Johanna Loretta, Countess of Saarbrücken Elisabeth Mathilde, Countess of Saarbrücken
House	House of Saarbrücken
Father	Simon II, Count of Saarbrücken
Mother	Liutgard of Leiningen

Simon III of Sarrebrück, Simon III von Saarbrücken (Saarbrücken-Leiningen) (c. 1180–1243) was the Count of Saarbrücken from 1207 until his death, about 1240.

Simon III was the eldest son of Simon II (d.1207), Count of Saarbrücken (in office 1183-1207) and Count jure uxoris of Leiningen, and his wife Liutgard of Leiningen (d.a. 1239), who was daughter, sister, cousin or aunt of Emich III? (d. 1180/87 or c.1208), Count of Leiningen. When Liutgard's relative Friedrich (First cousin of Emich III) died c. 1215, she inherited the County of Leiningen. Simon II and his younger brother Heinrich (d. 1228) got a share each of their father Simon's County of Saarbrücken, with Heinrich's part called County of Zweibrücken.

Simon III's younger brother Friedrich III, "Frederick" (d. 1237), inherited the County of Leiningen, and founded "the younger House of Leiningen". His brother Heinrich (d. 1234) was a Bishop of Worms. They belonged to the House of Saarbrücken and related to the "Walramids" , descendants of Siegbert and Frederick, Count of Saarbrücken, who was the father-in-law of Frederick II, Duke of Swabia.

In the struggle about the power in the Holy Roman Empire 1208-1215, he sided with the Hohenstaufen. He recognised however Otto of Braunschweig (1175-1218) as the King of Germany, but attended the crowning of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1215 when Otto had to abdicate.

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