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Thierry I Duc de la Haute Lorraine, Comte de Bar
(Abt 0965-Between 1026/1027)
Richilde
Herman II Duke of Swabia
(-1003)
Gerberga of Burgundy
(0965-1016)
Frederic II Duc de la Haute Lorraine, Comte de Bar
(Abt 0995-1026)
Mathilde of Swabia
(Abt 0995-1031)
Sophie Comtesse de Bar
(Abt 1004-1093)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Louis Count of Montbéliard

Sophie Comtesse de Bar 1 2 3

  • Born: Abt 1004, France
  • Marriage (1): Louis Count of Montbéliard
  • Died: <Jan or Jun> 1093 about age 89

   Other names for Sophie were Sophia Countess of Bar-le-Duc and Sophie of Bar.

  Research Notes:

From Wikipedia "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 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)

  Birth Notes:

May have been born about 1018

  Death Notes:

Death date is either January 21 or June 21 in 1093.


Sophie married Louis Count of Montbéliard, son of Louis Count of Mousson and Unknown. (Louis Count of Montbéliard was born about 1004 in <Mousson, (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Alsace, Middle Francia>, (France) and died in 1073.)


Sources


1 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 144-23 (Ermentrude of Burgundy).

2 <i>http://www.familysearch.org</i>, Cit. Date: 9 Aug 2009.

3 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_of_Bar. Cit. Date: 16 Jul 2013.


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