Sophie ( 1004 or 1018 – 21 January/June 1093) was Countess of Bar and Lady of Mousson in her own right from 1033 until her death. She was also Countess of Montbéliard as the wife of Louis, Count of Montbéliard.

Life

Sophie was a daughter of

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and

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. After her father died in 1026, she and her sister Beatrice went to live with their mother's sister, Empress Gisela. Her sister Beatrix married Boniface,

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, and remarried after his death with

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. 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. Their son

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(1045–1105) succeeded to the county of Montbéliard and to the county of

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Issue

Sophie and Louis had: * Theodoric I, Count of Montbéliard * Bruno * Louis, cited in 1080 *

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* Sophie, married to Folmar, count of Froburg * Beatrice (died 1092), married to Berthold I of Zähringen (died 1078), duke of

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* Mathilde, married to Hugh of Dagsburg (died 1089)

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