Henry III, Count of Bar
Henry III. , (* 1247/50, † September 1302 in Naples) was a Count of Bar out of the house Scarponnois 1291-1302. He was the son of Count Theobald II of Bar and his second wife Joan of Toucy.
Heinrich was a devotee King Adolf of Nassau from which he was appointed in 1295 to a governor on the border with France. His relationship with France was adjacent to Bar Champagne, Joanna I of Navarre, IV heavily burdened with the French king Philip since the wedding of the heir, Henry was suspended by a stronger pressure from France. Therefore, he leaned close to King Edward I of England, with which he combined common interests. To this end, Henry married on September 20, 1293 in Bristol, the Princess Eleanor, with whom he had three children:
- Eleonore, ∞ Llywellyn ap Owen, Lord of Iscoed († 1309)
- Edward I (* 1296, † November 11, 1336 in Famagusta), Count of Bar
- Johanna († August 31, 1361 ), John de Warenne ∞, Earl of Surrey ( † 1347 )
In Grammont Henry resigned on December 25, 1296 of the anti- France Alliance of Count Guido I of Flanders, with the kings Adolf of Nassau and Edward I of England, as well as the dukes John II of Brabant and Albert I of Austria in. But after the battle only half-heartedly supported and Guy of Flanders had to make a truce Edward I of England and Adolf of Nassau in October 1297 Heinrich stood alone against France. Already in June 1297, he was beaten by V. Gaucher de Chatillon -sur- Loison at Louppy and finally came after a train in the Champagne in 1299 in French captivity. In the Treaty of Bruges in 1301 he was forced to recognize the French suzerainty over all his possessions west of the Meuse, including his dominion center Bar -le- Duc ( Barrois mouvant ). The French border pushed so of the Marne in the old Lorraine space into what was by King Albert I accepted already in 1299 in a deal agreed at Vaucouleurs with King Philip IV of France. In imperial territory remained the Count of Bar, the region around Pont- à -Mousson, which was raised under Henry's great-grandson of Robert I. to Margraviate.
Then Heinrich moved to southern Italy to there King Charles II of Naples against King Frederick II of Sicily to support. In the fight against this he was wounded and died.