Lauretta of Saarbrücken

Lauretta of Saarbrücken (died 1271), was a sovereign countess regnant of Saarbrücken from 1233 to 1271.

Gottfried d'Asperemont and secondly to count Dietrich I Luf von Kleve. After the death of his son Dietrich in 1227, her father chose Laurette as his heiress as Countess of Saarbrücken, with an official statement in 1235 with the Bishop of Metz, and gave a part of the county to each of the daughters (mentioning "Joffroi d´Aspremont, Lorate, Mahaus & Jehane"). She succeeded Simon^[1] as the Countess of Saarbrücken at his death in 1233.

She married Gottfried/Geoffroi II of Aspremont (de) (d. 1250), son of Gobert VI of Apremont (de) and secondly in 1252 to Dietrich I Luf of Cleves (de) (c.1228 - 1277),^[2] a junior son of Dietrich V (?), Count of Cleves (1185 - 1260).

Both husbands entered as counts jure uxoris from 1243 to 1259 when Dietrich turned back to Cleves (Kleve). Loretta and Dietrich had a young daughter, Richardis (d.a. 1326), that was not yet married, and Loretta let her sister Mathilde inherit the county. Richardis married 1285 to Gerlach II (d.b. 1325) Herr of Dollendorf and Kronenburg, probably son of Gerlach I of Dollendorf, and they had at least one child.

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Lauretta of Saarbrücken House of Saarbrücken
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Preceded by Simon III	Countess of Saarbrücken 1233-1271	Succeeded by Mathilde