sentences:  Engelbert II was the son of Count Engelbert I of Sponheim (d. 1096) and his wife Hedwig of uncertain descent, maybe a daughter of the Billung duke Bernard II of Saxony.His grandfather Count Siegfried I of Sponheim (d. 1065) came to Carinthia about 1035 as an attendant of Emperor Conrad II.In 1099 Pope Urban II appointed Engelbert II "Vogt" protector of Saint Paul's Abbey, founded by his father.