Thiébaut II of Bar

Thiébaut II of Bar , born towards 1221, died in 1291, was count de Bar of 1240 with 1291. It was wire of Henri II, count de Bar, and of Philippa de Dreux.

Biography

He became count de Bar on November 13rd, 1239, but the news of died of his/her father, killed in Holy Land, arrived in Barrois only at the beginning of 1240. Being minor, his mother was regent until the March 17th 1242.

Benefitting from its youth, the duke of Lorraine Mathieu II sought to recover what Henri II of Bar had removed to him, and started to raise troops and to set up garrisons, but without being made the war, Mathieu and Thiébaut managed to agree by a treaty signed the July 23rd 1245. This treaty opened the era of a collaboration and peace between the two adjoining countries which lasted several decades, malgé a litigation towards 1256 about the fortress of Saint-Hilairemont, near to Neufchâteau.

In 1251, it is committed in the conflict of succession of the counties of Hainaut and of Flanders, his wife being sister of Guy de Dampierre but they are beaten the July 4th 1253 with West-Capelle, and Thiébaut, captive fact, will be released only in September 1254. It had some conflicts with Thibaut V, count de Champagne, in 1258, 1265 and in 1269. Thibaut, dies in 1270, and Thiébault made peace with its successor, Henri III. This last dies in 1274, leaving a girl Jeanne, who marries in 1284 the heir to the kingdom of France, which becomes king the following year under the name of Philippe IV Beautiful the. That placed Barrois in the immediate vicinity of the royal field.

During its reign, benefitting from the demographic rise of the 13th century it founded in its states several cities, either in collaboration with abbeys, or with its vassal.

Marriages and children

He married in first weddings in 1243 Jeanne de Dampierre, girl of Guillaume, lord of Dampierre and Viscount of Troyes, and Marguerite, countess of Flanders

Widower, and without children, it remarie in 1266 with Jeanne de Toucy, girl of Jean de Toucy and Jeanne of Laval, and had:

  • Henri III (1259 † 1302)
  • Jean († 1317), lord of Puisaye
  • Thiébaut († 1312), bishop of Liege
  • Renaud († 1316), bishop of Metz
  • Érard († v. 1336), lord of Pierrepont, married to Isabelle of Lorraine († 1353)
  • Pierre, died before 1349, lord of Pierrefort
  • Philippa († 1290), married in 1263 with Othon IV, count de Bourgogne
  • Alix († 1307), married about 1278 with Matthieu of Lorraine († 1282), lord of Beauregard
  • Marie († 1333), married to Gobert d' Aspremont († 1302)
  • Isabelle, listed in 1295
  • Yolande, died young
  • Marguerite, abbess of Saint-Moor

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