Sophie, Countess of Bar

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Sophie of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018 – January 21 or June 21, 1093) was sovereign

Count of Bar and lady of Mousson between 1033 and 1093. She succeeded her brother, Frederick III, Duke of Upper Lorraine, ruled in co-regency with her spouse Louis, Count of Montbéliard, and was succeeded by her son Frederick of Montbéliard
.

Sophie, Countess of Bar
Issue
House of Ardennes
FatherFrederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine
MotherMatilda of Swabia

Life

She was a daughter of

Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lotharingia
.

Sophie was Countess of Bar between 1033 and 1092, in succession of her childless brother, Duke Frederick III of Upper Lotharingia (died 1033).

She married Louis, Count of Montbéliard (1019–1071 or 1073). Their son Thierry I (1045–1105) succeeded to the county of Montbéliard and to the county of Bar.

Issue

  • Thierry
  • Bruno
  • Louis, cited in 1080
  • Frederick of Montbéliard
  • Sophie, married to Folmar, count of Froburg
  • Beatrice (died 1092), married to
    Carinthia
  • Mathilde, married to Hugh of Dagsburg (died 1089)

Notes

Sources

  • Sophie de Bar (from the French Wikipedia)
  • Sophie von Ober-Lothringen Gräfin von Sundgau-Pfirt (in German)
  • Kagay, Donald J.; Villalon, L. J. Andrew (2003). Crusaders, condottieri, and cannon : medieval warfare in societies around the Mediterranean. Leiden: Brill.
    OCLC 49415719
    .
Preceded by
Count of Bar

1033–1093
Succeeded by
Preceded by Lord of Mousson
1033–1093
Succeeded by