Renaud I, count of Bar

Events

Date of Birth: between 1075 and 1077

Place of Birth: unknown.

The dates are given by Cawley.

Date of Death: 25 February or 10 March, 1149.

Place of Death: on ship in the Mediterranean.

The date and place are given by Cawley. Poull (p. 99) gives 10 March 1149. Renaud was en route to the Holy Land.

Relationships

Father: Thierry, count of Montbéliard.

This relationship is given by Poull (p. 79).

Mother: Ermentrude of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by Poull (p. 79).

Spouse: Gisèle de Vaudémont.

This relationship is given by Poull (p. 99) and by Mathieu.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Hugues de Bar (died 29 September 1141).

Renaud (died 25 November 1170), count of Bar, married Agnes de Blois.

Thierry de Bar (died 8 August 1171), bishop of Metz.

Agnes de Bar (died after 1185) married Albert, count of Chiny.

Clemence de Bar married (1) a son of Pierre, count of Dammartin; married (2) Renaud II, count of Clermont; (possibly) married (3) Thibaut de Crépy, lord of Nanteuil.

Mathilde de Bar married Konrad.

Stephanie de Bar married Hugues, lord of Broyes.

References

Cawley, Charles. RENAUD in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Mathieu, Jean-Noël. “Recherches sur les premiers comtes de Dammartin” in Paris et Ile-de-France mémoires, tome 47, (Fédération de sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France: Paris, 1996) pp. 1-59.

Poull, Georges. La Maison souveraine et ducale de Bar, (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1994).