Bar

Who holds it

Name

Theobald I

Title

Count of Bar

Since

1190

Born

about 1158

Family

House of Bar

Confidence

high

See Count of Bar

Lord in 1200

Count Theobald I.

Charter

None known for 1200.

Council

Comital officers.

Communities

Collegiate church at the castle.

Walls and castle

Comital castle above the town.

Trade and crafts

Barrois wine; Ornain road from Champagne to the Moselle.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Seat attested; details not pinned.

Primary sources for Bar

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (about 1227 to 1241, at the Cistercian abbey of Trois-Fontaines in Champagne). The widest net of any Latin chronicle for 1200, compiled from dozens of sources, many now lost. Read online
• Deeds of the archbishops of Trier, continuations (continuations written in the 13th century). The Trier house history for Archbishop John I (1190 to 1212), who held the Moselle between the two kings. Read online