Renaud I Montbeliard 
Renaud I was born in Bar-Le-Duc, Meuse, France. Renaud I's father was Thierry II of Bar & Montbeliard and his mother was Irmtrud de Bourgogne. His paternal grandparents were Louis II de Mousson and Sophia Von Ober-Lothringen; his maternal grandparents were William I "The Great" of Burgundy and Stephanie (Etiennete) De Longwy. He had a brother and two sisters, named Thierry III, Mechtild of and Agnes. He died on June 24th, 1150.General Notes
Count of Bar-le-Duc and Mousson; opponent of the Emperor Henry V; Crusader; went with Louis VII on Second Crusade, 1147; founded the Priory of Moncon and the monastery at Rieval. [Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, 3rd ed., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore MD, 1998]
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Barrois, ancient county, then duchy, on the western frontier of Lorraine, a territory of the Holy Roman Empire, of which Barrois was long a fiefdom or holding before being absorbed piecemeal by France. The centre and capital was the town that later came to be known as Bar-le-Duc, in the modern French département of Meuse.
Because of its location between France and Germany, the dukedom was for many years of uncertain loyalty. In 951 the German emperor Otto I gave the countship of Barrois (i.e., the district of Bar), at the time a fief of the duchy of Lorraine, to Frederick of Ardenne. When Frederick's great-great-grandson Renaud (Reynald) inherited the countship, he founded the House of Bar. The counts of Bar increased their wealth and became the most powerful vassals of the dukes of Lorraine, with whom, however, they carried on endless struggles, usually fighting in the French ranks, while the dukes adhered to the Germans. Count Henry III made an alliance with Edward I of England and the German king Adolf of Nassau against France. Defeated in battle with the French, Henry III was forced in 1301 to do homage to the French king Philip IV for that part of the Barrois west of the Meuse River, which was claimed as being in the mouvance, or feudal dependency, of France and which from then on was called the "Barrois mouvant."
In 1354 Robert of Bar took the title of duke of Bar. In 1420 René of Anjou, who had inherited the dukedom, married Isabella, heiress of the Duke of Lorraine, so that on the death of the latter (1431) the Barrois and Lorraine were united. From then on the Barrois shared the fate of Lorraine, which was annexed to the French crown in 1766 on the death of Stanislaw Leszczynski, the former king of Poland, to whom it had been granted in 1738. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97][JohnFaye (8 Jun 05).FTW]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0990 d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1019 in Mousson, Lorraine, France d.BET 1070 AND 1073
- b.~ 0990 d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1045 in Montbelliard, Doubs, Franche-Comte, France d.2 JAN 1104/05
- b.~ 0942 d.0978
- b.BET 958 AND 965 in Lorraine, France d.< 1033 in Bar-Le-Duc, Meuse, France
- d.> 0987
- b.BET 978 AND 995 in Bar, Upper Lorraine, France d.BET 1026 AND 1027 in Bar-Le-Duc, Meuse, France
- d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 0960 in Lorraine, France d.< 0995
- b.BET 1019 AND 1025 in Bar, Upper Lorraine, France d.21 JAN 1091/92
- b.~ 0950 in Schwaben, Bavaria d.BET 985 AND 986
- b.BET 989 AND 998 in Schwaben, Bavaria d.1033
- b.~ 0925 in Arles, Provence, France d.19 OCT 993 in Regensburg, Germany
- b.~ 0973 in Bourgogne, France d.07 Jul 1018
- b.BET 946 AND 948 in Laon, Aisne, France d.26 JAN 980/81
- b.BET 1077 AND 1082 in Bar-Le-Duc, Meuse, France d.24 Jun 1150
- b.BET 932 AND 936 in Lombard, Italy d.0968 in Autun
- b.BET 958 AND 959 in Macon, Lombardy, Italy d.21 Aug 1026 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France
- b.0948 in Bourgogne, France d.BET 11 DEC 986 AND 991 in Chateau de Pouilly, Pouilly-sur-Saone, Bourgogne
- b.BET 986 AND 990 in Bourgogne, France d.BET 3 AND 4 SEP 1057 in Besancon, France
- b.BET 926 AND 931 in Rheim, Marne, Champagne-Ardennes, France d.0973
- b.BET 950 AND 963 in Rheims, Marne, France d.5 MAR 1002/03 in Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0930 in Lorraine, France or Hainault, Holland d.15 MAR 972/73
- b.~ 1040 in Bourgogne, France d.12 JAN 1086/87 in Besancon, France
- b.~ 0935 in Fecamp, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 NOV 996 in Fecamp, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0959 in Normandy, France d.26 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Normandy, France
- b.BET 936 AND 952 in Denmark d.1031 in Normandy, France
- b.BET 1007 AND 1010 in Normandy, France d.>07 Jul 1037 in France
- b.~ 0927 in Bretagne, France d.27 JUN 992 in Killed in action at Conquereuil
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France d.16 Nov 1017 in Normandie, France
- b.~ 0962 in Anjou, France d.> 1010 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 1060 in Bourgogne, France d.AFT 8 MAR 1104/05
- d.~ 1035
- b.BET 1023 AND 1055 in Barcelona, Spain d.26 May 1076 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.BET 1053 AND 1054 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain d.05 Dec 1082 in Murdered by his twin brother while hunting in the woods
- b.0974 in Toulouse, France d.1047
- b.BET 1000 AND 1010 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France d.16 Oct 1071 in Murdered by stepson, Pierre Raimond of Barcelona
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse, France d.1072
- b.~ 1044 in France d.30 Jun 1109
- b.BET 945 AND 970 in Coutances, Normandie, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 965 AND 1015 in Coutances, Normandy, France d.15 Jul 1085 in Of fever at seige of Kephalonia, Corfu
- b.~ 0994 in Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1055 AND 1059 in Apulia or Puglia, Calabria, Italy d.BET 1111 AND 1112 in Gerona
- b.~ 1010 in Salerno, Italy d.03 Jun 1052 in Murdered
- b.BET 970 AND 1005 in Salerno, Campania, Italy d.16 Apr 1090 in Salerno, Italy
- b.~ 1010 in Tabelaria, Italy d.UNKNOWN
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Renaud I and Gisele were married in a religious ceremony about 1109 in Bar-Le-Duc, Meuse, France. They had a son and two daughters, named Renaud II, Agnes and Clemence.
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