Robert of Bar (1390 – 25 October 1415) was Lord of Marle between 1397 and 1413, Count of Marle between 1413 and 1415 and

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between 1412 and 1415. He was the only child of Henry of Bar and

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. His great-grandfather was

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. Because his father was the eldest son of

Robert I of Bar Robert I of Bar (8 November 1344 – 12 April 1411) was Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson and Count and then Duke of Bar. He succeeded his elder brother Edward II of Bar as count in 1352. His parents were Henry IV of Bar and Yolande of Flanders. Whe ...

, Robert claimed the

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. He only renounced his claims after a large financial compensation and the elevation of Marle to a County. In 1412 he also became

.
Robert was one of the many French casualties at the

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. Robert married in 1409 Jeanne de Béthune, Viscountess of Meaux (d. 1450), daughter of Robert VIII de Béthune, Viscount of Meaux. They had one child, a daughter: *

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, Dame d'Oisy, Viscountess of Meaux ''suo jure'' (1415 – 14 May 1462), married

Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, and Conversano (1418 – 19 December 1475) belonged to the Ligny branch of the House of Luxemburg and was Constable of France. Life Saint-Pol was the eldest son of Peter of Luxembour ...

, of Brienne, de Ligny, and Conversano by whom she had seven children.

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* * *{{cite book , title=The Reign of Henry the Fifth: 1415-1416 , first=James Hamilton , last=Wylie , volume=II , author-link=James Hamilton Wylie , publisher=Cambridge at the University Press , year=1919 1390 births 1415 deaths 14th-century French people 15th-century French people Counts French military personnel killed in action People of the Hundred Years' War