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Sophia OF BAR-LE-DUC ( -1093)

Name: Sophia OF BAR-LE-DUC 1
Sex: Female
Father: Frederick II OF UPPER LORRAINE (995?-1026)
Mother: Mathilde OF SWABIA (995?-1031)

Individual Events and Attributes

Occupation frm 1033 to 1092 Countess of Bar-le-Duc
Death 21 Jan 1093

Marriage

Spouse Louis OF MONTBELIARD ( -1073)
Children Thierry I (Theodoric I) OF MONTBELIARD & BAR-LE-DUC (1045?-1105)
Marriage 1040 (app)

Individual Note

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 Mathilda 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 (died 1092), marquis of Suze

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:

1 Kagay and Villalon. p. 358.

 

SOURCES:

Sophie de Bar (from the French Wikipédia)

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.2

Sources

1Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 140, 144-23.
2"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie,_Countess_of_Bar.