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Count of Bar
Reginald I was Count of Bar (1105–1149). Barrois, during the Middle Ages, was the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar, in the eastern part of present-day France, bordering Lorraine.
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Reginald I (also called "the One-eyed", Reinald I, Renaud I; c. 1080 – 10 March 1149) was Count of Bar (1105–1149). Barrois, during the Middle Ages, was the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar, in the eastern part of present-day France, bordering Lorraine.
He was the son of Count Theodoric I of Montbéliard and Ermentrude, daughter of Count William I of Burgundy.
Reginald's first wife is unknown. He later married Gisele de Vaudémont, widow of Count Rainard III of Toul and daughter of Count Gerard I of Vaudémont and his wife Heilwig von Egisheim. Reginald and Gisele had eight children:
Hugh de Bar (d. 29 September 1141)
Reginald II, Count of Bar
Drogo de Bar
Dietrich III de Bar (d. 8 August 1171), Bishop of Metz
Agnes de Bar (d. after 1185), married Albert. Count of Chiny
Clemence de Bar (1123–1183), married first Alberic II, Count of Dammartin, second Renaud, Count of Clermont, and third Thibaut III de Crépy
Mathilde de Bar, married Konrad I, Count of Wildgraf von Kyrburg
Stephaine de Bar (d. 1178), married Hugh III, Seigneur of Broyes and Châteauvillain
Reginald was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade in 1145. He was drowned somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea on his return voyage to Europe on or before 10 March 1149.
Reginald I of Bar succeeded Theodoric II of Bar (r. 1092–1105) who was succeeded in turn by Reginald II of Bar (r. 1150–1170) in 1150.