Sophie of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018 – January 21 or June 21, 1093) was sovereign
Count of Bar
The County of Bar, later Duchy of Bar, was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire encompassing the '' pays de Barrois'' and centred on the city of Bar-le-Duc. It was held by the House of Montbéliard from the 11th century. Part of the county, t ...
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.
Life
She was a daughter of
Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine
Frederick II (c. 995–1026), son of Thierry I of the House of Ardennes and Richilde von Blieskastel, daughter of Folmar III, Count in Bliesgau, was the Count of Bar and Duke of Lorraine, co-reigning with his father from 1019.
On the Emperor He ...
(died 1026/1027) and
Matilda of Swabia
Matilda of Swabia (german: Mathilde von Schwaben; – 29 July 1032), a member of the Conradine dynasty, was Duchess of Carinthia by her first marriage with Duke Conrad I and Duchess of Upper Lorraine by her second marriage to Duke Frederic ...
. After her father died in 1026, she and her sister
Beatrice went to live with their mother's sister,
Empress Gisela. Her sister Beatrix (died 1076) married Boniface,
margrave
Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defence of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or of a kingdom. That position became hereditary in certain feudal families in the Em ...
of
Tuscany
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, and remarried after his death with
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
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Thierry
Thierry is a French language, French male given name, derived from the Germanic languages, Germanic "Theodoric". It is the cognate of German language, German "Dietrich (disambiguation), Dietrich" and "Dieter (disambiguation), Dieter", English langu ...
* Bruno
* Louis, cited in 1080
*
Frederick of Montbéliard
* Sophie, married to Folmar, count of Froburg
* Beatrice (died 1092), married to
Berthold I of
Zähringen (died 1078), duke of
Carinthia
* Mathilde, married to Hugh of Dagsburg (died 1089)
Notes
Sources
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Sophie de Bar (from the French Wikipedia)
Sophie von Ober-Lothringen Gräfin von Sundgau-Pfirt(in German)
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1000s births
1093 deaths
11th-century women rulers
House of Bar
Counts of Bar
People from Lorraine
11th-century French people
11th-century French women
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