Sophia of Formbach
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Sophia of Formbach | |
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| Born | c. 1050/5 |
| Died | after 1088 |
| Spouse | Hermann of Salm |
| Issue | Otto I, Count of Salm Hermann II of Salm |
| Father | Meginhard IV of Formbach |
| Mother | Mathilde von Reinhausen |
Sophia of Formbach (also Sophia of Vormbach) (c. 1050/5 – 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.
Sophia was the daughter of Meginhard IV of Formbach and Matilda of Reinhausen, a daughter of Count Elli.[1] Sophia married Hermann of Salm. The couple were closely related and there were attempts to separate them on these grounds.[2] Hermann died in 1088. It is sometimes said that Sophia married for a second time around 1092 to Stephan II, Count of Sponheim, although this is not certain.[3]
Sophia, like the rest of her natal dynasty (the Formbachs), was a patron of Göttweig Abbey.[4]
Children
With her first husband, Hermann, Sophia had the following children:
- Otto I, Count of Salm
- Hermann II of Salm (1087–1135)
- Dietrich of Salm (fl. 1095)
If she married Stephan II of Sponheim, then Sophia was also the mother of:
- Meginhard I, Count of Sponheim
- Jutta (1090-1136), founder of the female convent at the abbey of Disibodenberg[5]
- Hugh of Sponheim, archbishop of Cologne (1137)
