Heinrich I. (bar)

Heinrich I (* 1158 ; † October 17/19, 1190 near Akkon ) was Count of Bar and Mousson and Lord of Amance from 1170 .

Life

He was the son of Count Rainald II of Bar and Mousson and Agnes of Champagne.

Since Heinrich was still a minor when his father died in 1170, his mother took over the regency for him until 1173. Since some of her ancestors were once Counts of Verdun , Agnes von Champagne tried in 1172 with the Bishop of Verdun to reassign Henry with this county, but the latter refused. Agnes responded by letting her troops devastate the county of Verdun. Agnes and Heinrich were then excommunicated until they gave in in 1177.

On his mother's side, Heinrich was a cousin of Philip II August of France . He was also present at his coronation on November 1, 1179 in Reims by their common uncle, the Archbishop and Cardinal of Reims, William with the white hands .

After large parts of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, including the city of Jerusalem , had been conquered by Sultan Saladin in 1187 , Heinrich also vowed to participate in the Third Crusade . Even before the main army of the crusade under Philip II August and Richard the Lionheart of England, he and his younger brother Theobald embarked with his contingent for Outremer as early as 1189 , where in the late summer of the siege of Acre that had just begun (1189–1191 ) connected. In the summer of 1190 his uncles Theobald V von Blois and Stephan I von Sancerre as well as his cousin Heinrich II von Champagne also arrived before Acre . Shortly after he had a donation to the Knights Templar under their Grand Preceptor Gilbert Hérail certified in mid-October 1190 , he died either of an illness or a wound he had suffered in battle. His years memory after his death was in the Cathedral of Toul committed traditionally on October 17, in the monastery of Saint-Vanne in Verdun on 19 October. Since he was unmarried and childless, his brother Theobald inherited his titles and lands.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Société des lettres, sciences et arts de Bar-le-Duc: Mémoires de la Société des lettres, sciences et arts de Bar-le-Duc . Contant-Laguerre, Bar-le-Duc 1904, 4th series, volume 3, pp. XXXII f.

literature

• Georges Poull: La maison souveraine et ducale de Bar. Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Nancy 1994, ISBN 2-86480-831-5 , pp. 119 ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Rainald II.	Count of Bar 1170–1190	Theobald I.