Margaret of Bar

Margaret of Bar
Henry II of Bar
Mother	Philippa of Dreux

Margaret of Bar (1220–1275) was a daughter of

. She is also known as Marguerite of Bar.

Family

Margaret's maternal grandparents were

and his second wife Ermesinde of Brienne.

Margaret was the eldest of seven children born to her parents. Her brother was

. Margaret's sister, Jeanne married Frédéric de Blamont. The rest of her siblings died young or unmarried.

Marriage

In 1240, Margaret married

Margaret was twenty years old, and Henry was twenty-four.

Margaret brought Henry

arbitrated between the two counts and Henry was freed and repossessed of Ligny, but under the suzerainty of the Barrois.

Margaret and Henry had seven children:

• Henry VI
  (died 1288), Count of Luxembourg
• Waleran I
  (died 1288), Count of Ligny & Roussy
• Guy of Dampierre
• John II, Count of Holland^[2]
• Margaret
• Felicitas
• Joanna (died 1310), Abbess of Clairefontaine

Margaret and Henry made peace with

.

Margaret died in 1275, six years before her husband's death.

Ancestry

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