Edward I (died November 1336), was the

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from 1302 to his death. He was a minor when he succeeded his father Henry III as count, so ruled initially under the

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of his uncles, John of Puisaye, Theobald, Bishop of Liège, and Renaud, Bishop of Metz (his mother

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had been dead since 1298).See Poull, Georges. ''La Maison souveraine et ducale de Bar''. Nancy: Presses universitaires de Nancy, 1994, p.231ff. In 1308, he accompanied Frederick IV of Lorraine into battle. In 1310, he married Mary, daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy,

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, ''Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle'', (Ecole des Chartes, 2002), 54–55. and was declared to have attained his majority. Then he purchased the lordship of

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from his uncle John, the aforementioned lord of

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. In 1313, he was captured in war against Frederick and not ransomed until 1314. He constructed a hydraulic forge at

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in 1323. In 1324, he was again allied in military operations with the duke of Lorraine, and also with the

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, and the

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. This operation was the

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, for each of the allied lords was owed something by the citizens of Metz. Edward demanded compensation for garrisoning the city with his own troops during a conflict with the

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. In 1336, Edward died in a shipwreck off the coast of

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, while en route to a

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. By his wife, he left three children: * Henry IV, his successor *Eleanor (died 1332), married (1330) Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, son of Frederick IV and Elisabeth of Austria, of the

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*Beatrice, married

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, Lord of

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, member of the

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