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COUNTS AND DUKES OF BAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNTS AND See also:DUKES OF See also:BAR  . In the See also:middle of the Ioth See also:century the territory of See also:Bar (See also:Barrois) formed a dependency of the See also:Empire . In the Iith century its lords were only See also:counts by See also:title; they belonged to the See also:house of Mousson (which also possessed the countships of See also:Montbeliard and Ferrette), and usually fought in the See also:French ranks, while their neighbours, the See also:dukes of See also:Lorraine, adhered to the See also:German See also:side . See also:Theobald I., See also:count of Bar, was an ally of See also:Philip See also:Augustus, as was also his son See also:Henry II., who distinguished himself at the See also:battle of See also:Bouvines in 1214 . But sometimes the counts of Bar See also:bore arms against See also:France . In 1301 Henry III. having made an See also:alliance with See also:Edward I. of See also:England, whose daughter he had married, was vanquished by Philip the See also:Fair, who forced him to do See also:homage for a See also:part of Barrois, situated See also:west of the See also:Meuse, which was called Barrois mouvant . In 1354 See also:Robert, count of Bar, who had married the daughter of See also:King See also:John, was made See also:marquis of See also:Pont-a-Mousson by the See also:emperor See also:Charles IV. and took the title of See also:duke of Bar . His successor, Edward III., was killed at See also:Agincourt in 1415 . In 1419 See also:Louis of Bar, See also:brother of the last-named, a See also:cardinal and See also:bishop of Chalons, gave the duchy of Bar to Rene of See also:Anjou, the See also:grandson of his See also:sister See also:Yolande, who married See also:Isabella, duchess of Lorraine . Yolande of Anjou, who in 1444 had married See also:Ferri of Lorraine, count of Vaudemont, became heiress of See also:Nicholas of Anjou, duke of See also:Calabria and of Lorraine, in 1473, and of Rene of Anjou, duke of Bar, in 148o; thus Lorraine, with Barrois added to it, once more returned to the See also:family of its See also:ancient dukes . See also:United with Lorraine to France in 1634, Barrois remained, except for See also:short intervals, part of the royal domain . It was granted in 1738 to See also:Stanislaus Leszczynski, ex-king of See also:Poland, and on his See also:death in 1766 was once more attached to the See also:crown of France .

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