Thierry I (Theodoric I) OF MONTBELIARD & BAR-LE-DUC (1045?-1105)

Individual Events and Attributes

Marriage

Individual Note

Theodoric I (French: Thierry) (ca. 1045 – 2 January 1105) was a Count of Montbéliard, Count of Bar and lord of Mousson (as Theodoric II) and Count of Verdun. He was the son of Louis de Scarpone, Count of Montbéliard, and Sophie, Countess of Bar and Lady of Mousson.

After his father's death, he claimed the estate of the Duchy of Lorraine, which his father had already claimed. The claim was dismissed by Emperor Henry IV, confirming the duchy to Theodoric the Valiant. In retaliation, he ravaged the diocese of Metz, but he was defeated by Adalbéron III, bishop of Metz, and the Duke of Lorraine Theodoric the Valiant. Reconciled with the Church, he founded an abbey in 1074 in Haguenau and rebuilt the church at Montbéliard in 1080. He did not participate at the Council of Clermont in 1095, or the Crusades, but rather sent his son Louis in the Crusades. In 1100, the Bishop of Verdun gave the county to Thierry for life, but the relationship between the spiritual and temporal powers were turbulent.

He married Ermentrude of Burgundy (1055–1105), daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy, and Stephanie, in 1065 and had the following issue:

Theodoric II (1081–1163), Count of Montbéliard

Louis, who became a crusader, returned in 1102 and was assassinated in 1103

Frederick I († 1160), Count of Ferrette and Altkirch

Reginald I (1090–1150), Count of Bar and lord of Mousson

Stephen (†1162), bishop of Metz

William, who died before 1105

Hugh, cited in 1105, probably religious, because he did not share his father's possessions

Gunthilde (†1331), abbess of Biblisheim

Agnes, married in 1104 (†1136)

SOURCE:

Georges Poull, La Maison souveraine et ducale de Bar, 1994²

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