) was lord of Marle

Marle

Marle may refer to:* Marle , a character from the 1995 video game Chrono Trigger* Marle, Aisne, a commune in France* Marle, a hamlet in the Dutch municipality of Olst-Wijhe* Marle, a hamlet in the Dutch municipality of Hellendoorn...

 and the Marquis de Pont-à-Mousson. He was the eldest son of Robert I of Bar

Robert I of Bar

Robert I of Bar was Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson and Count and then Duke of Bar. He succeeded his elder brother Edward II of Bar as count in 1352, and the county was promoted to a duchy in 1354...

 and Marie of Valois.

Very early in his life, he was betrothed to Isabella of Lorraine, daughter of John I, Duke of Lorraine

John I, Duke of Lorraine

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. In 1374 he went to the court of his uncle King Charles V of France

Charles V of France

Charles V , called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380 and a member of the House of Valois...

 and was knighted at the coronation of king Charles VI of France

Charles VI of France

Charles VI , called the Beloved and the Mad , was the King of France from 1380 to 1422, as a member of the House of Valois. His bouts with madness, which seem to have begun in 1392, led to quarrels among the French royal family, which were exploited by the neighbouring powers of England and Burgundy...

, fighting in the Flanders campaign in 1383 and the Guelders campaign in 1388. He then returned to Bar and governed it on behalf of his father, who was often immobilised by attacks of gout

Gout

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.

His betrothal was broken off and his fiancée instead married Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy (†1397). In November 1384 Henry himself married Marie de Coucy, Countess of Soissons (1366 -1405), daughter of Enguerrand VII Count of Soissons & Sire de Coucy, by his first wife Princess Isabella of England

Isabella de Coucy

Isabella of England, also known as Dame Isabella de Coucy , was the eldest daughter of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault and the wife of Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy, by whom she had two daughters.She was made a Lady of the Garter in 1376.-Early years:Isabella was the royal...

, eldest daughter of King Edward III

Edward III of England

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. Marie became Dame de Coucy et de Oisy following her father's death in 1397. Henry had two children by Marie: Enguerrand (died ca. 1400), and Robert of Bar, who became count of Marle and of Soissons.

In 1396, Henry negotiated the neutrality of Gian Galeazzo Visconti

Gian Galeazzo Visconti

Gian Galeazzo Visconti , son of Galeazzo II Visconti and Bianca of Savoy, was the first Duke of Milan and ruled the late-medieval city just before the dawn of the Renaissance...

, Duke of Milan, in dealings with the French protectorate in the republic of Gênes

Gênes

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. He then fought on the side of the Duke of Nevers in the crusade against the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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, being captured at the end of the Battle of Nicopolis

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 on 25 September 1396. He was taken prisoner and later ransomed, but died at the crusader's camp in Treviso after contracting the plague in Venice

Venice

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on his return trip.