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 ...

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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

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

* Sophie de Bar (from the French Wikipedia)
Sophie von Ober-Lothringen Gräfin von Sundgau-Pfirt
(in German) * 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 {{France-noble-stub