Henry III. (Bar)

Henry III. , (* 1247/50, † September 1302 in Naples ) was a Count von Bar from the House of Scarponnois from 1291 to 1302. He was the son of Count Theobald II of Bar and his second wife Johanna von Toucy.

Heinrich was a follower of King Adolf of Nassau , by whom he was appointed governor on the border with France in 1295 . His relationship with France has been heavily strained since the marriage of the heiress of the Champagne region bordering Bar , Joan I of Navarre , to the French King Philip IV . As a result, Heinrich was exposed to increasing pressure from France. Therefore, he leaned closely to King Edward I of England , with whom he shared common interests. In addition, Heinrich married Princess Eleonore in Bristol on September 20, 1293 , with whom he had three children:

Count Heinrich III. of bar with his knights. Depiction from the Chroniques de Saint-Denis , 14th century.

• Eleonore, ∞ Llywellyn ap Owen, Lord of Iscoed († 1309)
• Eduard I (* 1296; † November 11, 1336 in Famagusta ), Count of Bar
• Johanna († August 31, 1361), ∞ John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey († 1347)

In Grammont , Heinrich joined the anti-France alliance of Count Guido I of Flanders with the kings Adolf of Nassau and Edward I of England, as well as the dukes Johann II of Brabant and Albrecht I of Austria . But after Edward I of England and Adolf von Nassau only half-heartedly supported the fight and Guido von Flanders had to enter into an armistice in October 1297, Heinrich stood alone against France. Already in June 1297 he was defeated by Gaucher V. de Châtillon near Louppy-sur-Loison and finally got into French captivity after a train in Champagne in 1299. In the Treaty of Bruges in 1301, he was forced to recognize French suzerainty over all of his possessions west of the Meuse , including his ruling center Bar-le-Duc ( Barrois mouvant ). The French border was pushed from the Marne into the old Lorraine region, which was accepted as early as 1299 by King Albrecht I in an agreement with King Philip IV of France agreed at Vaucouleurs . The Count of Bar retained the region around Pont-à-Mousson on imperial territory , which was elevated to a margraviate under Henry's great-grandson Robert I.

Heinrich then moved to southern Italy to support King Charles II of Naples against King Frederick II of Sicily . In the fight against this he was wounded and died.

Individual proof

1. ^ Extraits de la Chronique attribuée a Jean Desnouelles, Abbé de Saint-Vincent de Laon. In: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France . Vol. 21, 1855, pp. 181-198, here p. 184 .

Web links

• Henri de Bar at fmg.ac (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Theobald II.	Count of Bar 1291–1302	Edward I.