John I, Count Palatine of Simmern


John I was the Count Palatine of Simmern from 1480 until 1509.

Early life and ancestry

John was born in 1459, into the Palatinate branch of the House of Wittelsbach, as the son of Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern and his wife, Margaret of Guelders, herself the second-eldest daughter of Arnold of Egmond, Duke of Guelders.

Marriage

He married on 29 September 1481 Countess Joanna of Nassau-Saarbrücken, member of the House of Nassau.
She was an elder daughter of Johann II, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken by his first wife, Countess Johanna of Hainsberg-Loon, a daughter of John IV, Count of Loon.

Children

With Countess Johanna of Nassau-Saarbrücken
  1. Frederick
  2. John II
  3. Frederick

Death

John I, Count Palatine of Simmern died on 27 January 1509 in Starkenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, aged 49.
He was interred, alongside his wife, Countess Johanna, in the Saint Stephen’s Evangelical Church, Simmern, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Germany.