Sophie of Bar
French countess
Sophie (c. 1004 or 1018 – 21 January/June 1093) was Countess of Bar and Lady of Mousson in her own right from 1033 until her death. She was also Countess of Montbéliard as the wife of Louis, Count 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 Theodoric (1045–1105) succeeded to the county of Montbéliard and to the county of Bar-le-Duc.
Issue
Sophie and Louis had:
Theodoric I, Count of Montbéliard
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)
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Bogdan, Henry (2013).
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