Category:Coat of arms of the County of Bar

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The w:County of Bar, later Duchy of Bar, was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire encompassing the pays de Barrois (from Latin barra, barrier) and centred on the city of w:Bar-le-Duc, on the River Ornain. It was held by the Counts of Montbéliard from the 11th century (See similar arms with field gules Category:Coat of arms of the County of Montbéliard). Part of the county, the so-called Barrois mouvant, became a fief of the Kingdom of France in 1301 and was elevated to a duchy in 1354. The Barrois non-mouvant remained a part of the Empire. From 1480 it was united to the imperial w:Duchy of Lorraine. Both imperial Bar and Lorraine came under the influence of France in 1735, with Bar ceded to the deposed king of Poland, w:Stanisław Leszczyński. According to the w:Treaty of Vienna (1738), the duchy passed to the French crown upon Stanisław's death, which occurred in 1766. w:Nostradamus in Les Prophéties, century VII, 24, makes a cryptic reference to a barbel and Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, Duke of Bar, Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson (d.1608): Empoisoné avec oeufs de Barbeau, Grand de Lorrain par le Marquis du pont ("Poisoned with the roe of a barbel, the great one from Lorraine by the Marquis du Pont"). For similar arms see Category:Coats of arms of the County of Chiny (with field crusilly gules), adopted at the start of the age of heraldry by the son or grandson of Albert I, Count of Chiny (died 1162), who married Agnes de Bar, a daughter of Renaud I, Count of Bar (died 1149)

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