Theobald I. (bar)

Coat of arms of the Counts of Bar

Theobald I (around 1158 ; † February 13, 1214 ) was Count of Bar from 1190 and, by virtue of his third wife's rights , Count of Luxembourg from 1197. He was the son of Count Rainald II von Bar and Agnes von Champagne .

biography

As the younger son of the Count von Bar, he was first given the dominions of Briey and Stenay . In France, through his mother, he belonged to the family of the Counts of Champagne , the House of Blois , who were hostile to the Duchy of Lorraine on a regional level , and to the reign of France on a supraregional level with King Philip Augustus of France , whose cousin he was fought.

With his brother Heinrich I he took part in the Third Crusade and was his successor when Heinrich died during the siege of Acre (1189–1191) . After returning to Europe, he devoted himself to strengthening his territorial power. Through his third marriage, to Ermesinde II , he got Luxembourg in his hands in 1197 and was thus in possession of enormous lands on the border between the Holy Roman Empire and France . In 1202 he was chosen by Duke Simon II of Lorraine to carry out his last will with regard to the succession. In return, Theobald von Lorraine received sovereignty over the county of Vaudémont .

At the latest when his mother Agnes died in 1207, he also inherited her rule in Ligny .

He died in 1214 just before the Battle of Bouvines . His property was divided, the parental inheritance was given to his son, the inheritance of his wife went to Duke Walram IV of Limburg , who married his widow.

progeny

His first marriage was in 1176 Lauretta von Looz († 1190), daughter of Ludwig I, Count of Looz and Rieneck , and Agnes von Metz; from this marriage:

• Agnes († 1226), who married Duke Friedrich II of Lorraine in 1189 .

In his second marriage he married Ermesinde von Brienne († 1211) daughter of Guido von Brienne , Count of Bar-sur-Seine , and Elisabeth de Chacenay in 1189 ; from this marriage:

• Heinrich II. (* 1190; † 1239), Count of Bar
• Agnes, ∞ Hugo I of Châtillon († 1248), Count of Saint-Pol and Blois
• Margarete, ∞ I 1221 Heinrich (* 1191; † 1228), son of Heinrich III. von Salm , ∞ II Henri de Dampierre († 1259) ( House Dampierre )

The marriage was annulled in 1195 (which did not affect the ability of the children to inherit), so that in 1197 he was the third wife of Ermesinde II. (* 1186; † 1247) Countess of Luxembourg, daughter of Count Heinrich IV. The Blind ( House of Namur ), and Could marry Agnes von Geldern; her children were:

• Rainald († before 1214), Lord of Briey
• Daughter († 1214)
• Elisabeth († 1262) ∞ Walram of Limburg († 1242) Lord of Monschau
• Margarete, ∞ I Hugo III. († 1243) Count of Vaudémont , ∞ II Henri de Bois , Count of Vaudémont.

Literature and web links

• Georges Poull: La maison souveraine et ducale de Bar. Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Nancy 1994, ISBN 2-86480-831-5 .
• Jean (Thibaut) de Bar at fmg.ac

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich I.	Count of Bar 1190–1214	Henry II
Otto I of Burgundy	Count of Luxembourg (de iure uxoris ) 1197–1214	Walram IV of Limburg (de iure uxoris)