Theobald I, Count of Bar

Theobald I, Count of Bar
Spouse(s)	Laurette of Loon (de Looz) Ermesinde of Bar-sur-Seine Ermesinde of Namur
Noble family	House of Montbéliard
Father	Reginald II of Bar
Mother	Agnès of Champagne
Born	c. 1158
Died	13 February 1214

Theobald I (c. 1158 – 13 February 1214) was the count of Bar from 1190 until his death, and a count of Luxemburg from 1197 until his death.^[1] He was the son of Reginald II of Bar and his wife Agnès de Champagne.^[2] He became count when his brother, Henry, was killed in the Siege of Acre.^[3]

During the Albigensian crusade, Theobald led an army to reinforce Simon de Montfort at the siege of Toulouse in June 1211.^[1]

Family

Theobald I was married three times; to Laurette of Loon (de Looz), Ermesinde (Isabella) of Bar-sur-Seine, and to Ermesinde (Ermesinda) of Namur. He was succeeded as count by his eldest son Henry II, by his second marriage. His eldest daughter Agnes, from his first marriage, married Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine. His lands in Luxembourg reverted to Waleran III of Limburg, who married Theobald's widow Ermesinde of Namur.

Notes

1. Mark Gregory Pegg, A Most Holy War : The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom, (Oxford University Press, 2008), 114.
2. Margot Elsbeth Fassler, The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts, (Yale University Press, 2010), 457 note6.
3. Ambroise, The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, Vol. 1, transl. Marianne Ailes, (The Boydell Press, 2003), 74 note 227.