Bar-sur-Aube ( Bar-sur-Aube ) - a county in medieval France, existed since the X century. The territory approximately corresponds to the modern canton of the same name .
It was part of the diocese of Langra and in the first half of the XII century was in vassal dependence on the bishops. In the east it bordered with the county of Troyes, in the south - with the county of Bar-sur-Seine , in the north - with Champagne.
Castle Bar-sur-Ob was first mentioned in a document dated September 22, 829 ("Barrense castro sive ad Morimunt").
The first graph about which there is historical information is Nosher I (d. After 1011). It is known about him that he was the son of Ashar , Viscount de la Ferte-sur-Ob.
In the middle of the XI century, the county of Bar-sur-Ob passed into the possession of the counts of Valois, and at the end of the same century - to Thibault III , Count of Blois. Since then it was in the possession of the Counts of Blois and Champagne.
List of Counts Bar-sur-Aub (before joining Blois)
- Nosher I (d. After 1011).
- Nocher II (d. 1019/1040).
- Aelis (1020/1025 - September 11, 1053), daughter. The fourth marriage she married (1041/1045) for Raul IV de Crepe , Count of Valois
- Gauthier de Valois (died 1065/1067), son
- Simon de Valois (d. 1080/1082), brother of the previous, Count of Valois, Amiens, Mondidier and Bara-sur-Ob. In 1077, he abdicated and tonsured monks.
- Adela (Alix) de Valois (d. 1093/1100), daughter or granddaughter of Raul III de Valois, wife of Thibault III , Count of Blois.
Literature
- Chevalier L. Histoire de Bar-sur-aube .
Links
- COMTES de BAR-sur-AUBE (FERTE-sur-AUBE ) . Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Date of appeal September 18, 2018.