Sophie, Countess of Bar

Sophie, Countess of Bar
Issue	Theodoric I, Count of Montbéliard Frederick
House	House of Ardennes
Father	Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine
Mother	Matilda of Swabia

Sophie of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018 – January 21 or June 21, 1093) was sovereign Count of Bar and lady of Mousson between 1033 and 1093. She succeeded her brother, Frederick III, Duke of Upper Lorraine, ruled in co-regency with her spouse Louis, Count of Montbéliard, and was succeeded by her son Frederick of Montbéliard.

Life

Sophie was a daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine and Matilda of Swabia. 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, margrave of Tuscany, and remarried after his death with Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lotharingia.

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 Thierry I (1045–1105) succeeded to the county of Montbéliard and to the county of Bar.

Issue

Sophie and Louis had:

• Thierry
• 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)

Sources

• Bogdan, Henry (2013). La Lorraine des ducs (in French). Tempus.
• Sophie von Ober-Lothringen Gräfin von Sundgau-Pfirt (in German)
• Kagay, Donald J.; Villalon, L. J. Andrew (2003). Crusaders, condottieri, and cannon : medieval warfare in societies around the Mediterranean. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-12553-1. OCLC 49415719.