ENGELBERT [I] von Sponheim, son of SIEGFRIED Graf von Sponheim und im Pustertal ex-Markgraf & his wife Richgard [Sieghardinger] (-1 Apr 1096). The Fundatio Monasterii Sancti Pauli in Carinthia names "comes Engelbertus ex patre Sigfrido Francorum civis, ex matre Rihkarda maiorum Karinthia primus"[594]. Graf im Kraichgau. Graf von Sponheim [1070]. Graf im Pustertal 1070. Vogt of Salzburg. The necrology of Regensburg St Emmeran records the death "Kal Apr" of "Engilbertus ex comite m"[595]. The necrology of Seckau records the death "Kal Apr" of "Engelbertus fundator s Pauli in Lavant"[596].
m HEDWIG, daughter of --- (-1 Jun [after 1100]). The Fundatio Sancti Pauli in Carinthia names "Hadwich cometissa Engelberti relicta", and lists (in order) "Engelbert et Pernhart et Hainrich filii ipsius" as witnesses to the related diploma[597]. The necrology of Regensburg St Emmeran records the death "Kal Jun" of "Hadewich coma"[598]. The Genealogia ex stirpe Sancti Arnulfi names "Idam Namucensem…uxorem Angelberti marchionis et Gertrudem comitissam Flandrensem" as children of "Bernardum"[599]. It is not certain to whom "Angelberti marchionis" refers, but it is possible that it is Engelbert [I] Graf von Sponheim whose father was Markgraf. If this is correct, she would have been Hedwig of Saxony, daughter of Bernhard II Duke of Saxony [Billung] & his wife Eilika von Schweinfurt. Wegener points out that a Saxon origin for Hedwig is consistent with the introduction of the names Bernhard and Heinrich into the family of the Grafen von Sponheim[600]. However, if Hedwig was the daughter of Duke Bernhard, she must have been born in the range [1020/40]. This seems early in light of the known career dates of Hedwig's children.
Graf Engelbert [I] & his wife had seven children