Sophie of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018 – January 21 or June 21, 1093) was sovereign Count of Bar and lady of Mousson between 1033 and 1093. She succeeded her brother, Frederick III, Duke of Upper Lorraine, ruled in co-regency with her spouse Louis, Count of Montbéliard, and was succeeded by her son Frederick of Montbéliard. Life She was a daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine (died 1026/1027) and Matilda of Swabia. After her father died in 1026, she and her sister Beatrice went to live with their mother's sister, Empress Gisela. Her sister Beatrix (died 1076) married Boniface, margrave of Tuscany, and remarried after his death with Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lotharingia. Sophie was Countess of Bar between 1033 and 1092, in succession of her childless brother, Duke Frederick III of Upper Lotharingia (died 1033). She married Louis, Count of Montbéliard (1019–1071 or 1073). Their son Thierry I (1045–1105) succeeded to the county of Montbéliard and to the county of Bar. Issue Thierry Bruno Louis, cited in 1080 Frederick of Montbéliard Sophie, married to Folmar, count of Froburg Beatrice (died 1092), married to Berthold I of Zähringen (died 1078), duke of Carinthia Mathilde, married to Hugh of Dagsburg (died 1089) Notes Sources Sophie de Bar (from the French Wikipedia) Sophie von Ober-Lothringen Gräfin von Sundgau-Pfirt (in German) 1000s births 1093 deaths 11th-century women rulers House of Bar Counts of Bar People from Lorraine 11th-century French people 11th-century French women