Reginald I, Count of Bar

Rainald I. the one-eyed (franz: Renaud le Borgne, † 1149 ) was since 1102/1105 a count of Bar, Verdun and Mousson and bailiff of Saint- Pierremont out of the house Scarponnois. He was a son of Count Dietrich I of Mousson - Altkirch and Ermentrude of Burgundy, daughter of Count William I of Burgundy.

Life

At possession of his inheritance Rainald came across the open rejection of the citizens of Verdun. In a violent confrontation with them he retired to an injury that resulted in the loss of an eye. He founded a Premonstratensian abbey at COMMERCY, the castle of COMMERCY even he pledged in 1106 to the monastery of Saint- Mihiel.

The Investiture Controversy between Emperor Henry V and Pope Paschal II Rainald tried to use it for personal goals and captured papal legate. The Bishop of Verdun, Richard de Grandpré told him in return the castles of Dieulouard and Stenay forfeited that were transferred to the Count of Luxembourg. In the resulting War of Bar-le- Duc was occupied in 1114 by Emperor Henry V and placed in Rainald imprisonment. But he was soon set free, after paying homage to the emperor.

In 1120 the County of Verdun was confiscated by the emperor and given to the Earl of Grandpré because Rainald had the installation of Henry of Blois, bishop of Verdun supported militarily. In 1124 Rainald made ​​a contractual waiver of Verdun.

Rainald raised as a distant relative of Godfrey of Bouillon against the Bishop of Liege claim to the castle of Bouillon, who conquered it in 1134 also. In 1141, the bishop took a recapture experiment. It died Rainald son, Hugo, which he gave to the city on September 22, 1141.

Together with his sons, Rainald II, and Dietrich, and his brother Stephen took Rainald since 1147 part in the second crusade. He died in 1149 at sea on the return trip home. He was buried in the Abbey of Saint- Mihiel.

He was married to Gisela von Vaudémont, a daughter of Count Gerhard I of Vaudémont. His children were:

  • Hugo († September 1141 in Bouillon )
  • Rainald II († November 25, 1170 ), succeeded him as Count of Bar
  • Dietrich († August 8, 1171 ) to 1128 archdeacon of Metz, in 1156 archdeacon of Verdun, in 1163 Bishop of Metz
  • Agnes, ∞ Albert Count of Chiny (House Chiny )
  • Clementia, 1 ∞ with Count Rainald II of Clermont, 2 ∞ with Theobald of Nanteuil -le- Haudouin
  • Mathilde, ∞ with wild Count Konrad von Kyrburg
  • Stephanie, heiress of COMMERCY, ∞ with Hugo III. of Broyes and Châteauvillain
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