Sophie, Countess of Bar
Sophie of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018 – January 21 or June 21, 1093) was a daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine (died 1026/1027) and Matilda of Swabia. After her father died, she and her sister Beatrice went to live with their mother's sister, Empress Gisela[1]
She was Countess of Bar between 1033 and 1092, in succession of her childless brother, Duke Frederick III of Upper Lotharingia (died 1033). Her sister Beatrix (died 1076) married Boniface, margrave of Tuscany, and remarried after his death with Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lotharingia.
She married Count Louis of Montbéliard (1019–1071 or 1073). Their son Count Thierry II of Bar-Montbéliard (1045–1105) succeeded to the county of Bar.
Their other children were:
- 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
- ↑ Kagay and Villalon. p. 358. Missing or empty
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Sources
- Sophie de Bar (from the French Wikipedia)
- Sophie von Ober-Lothringen Gräfin von Sundgau-Pfirt (in German)
- Kagay and Villalon (2003). Crusaders, Condottieri, and Cannon: Medieval Warfare in Societies around the Mediterranean. Koninklijke Brill NV.
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