Raymond Berenger I "the Old", Count of Barcelona

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• Military: say 1030; Ramon Berenguer campaigned against the Moors, extending his dominions as far west as Barbastro and imposing heavy tributes (parias) on other Moorish cities. Historians claim that those tributes helped create the first wave of prosperity in Catalan history. During his reign Catalan maritime power started to be felt in the western Mediterranean. Ramon Berenguer the Old was also the first count of Catalonia to acquire lands (the counties of Carcassonne and Razés) and influence north of the Pyrenees.
• Title(s): 1035; In 1035 he became the Count of Barcelona. He was also the Count of Gerona, Osona, Carcassonne and Rasez. Oddly enough, with the title change, he is called the first, same as his father.
• Religion: 1054; Pope Victor II excommunicated Almodis and Ramon for there illegal marriage until 1056.
• Legal: say 1060; He promulgated the earliest versions of a written code of Catalan law, the Usages of Barcelona.
• Last Full Review: 7 Aug 2020

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Raymond married Isabel on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Berenguer died in young.
2. Arnau died in young.
3. Peter Raymundi was born in 1050; died about 1073.

Raymond married Blanca of Narbonne on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Almodis de la Marche, Countess of Limoges in 1053. Almodis (daughter of Bernard I, Count de la Haute Marche and Perigord and Amelia, Countess of Aubnay) was born about 1020; died on 16 Oct 1071; was buried in Barcelona Cathedral, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Raymond Berenger II "Cabeza de Estope", Count of Barcelona was born about 1055; died on 5 Dec 1082.
2. Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
3. Agnes of Barcelona
4. Sanach of Barcelona

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• Title(s): 1018; He became the Count of Barcelona upon the death of his father in 1018. He was also the Marquis of Barcelona, and Count of Girona and Ausona.
• Last Full Review: 7 Aug 2020

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Raymond married Sancha Sánchez in 1021. Sancha (daughter of Sancho Garcia, Count of Castile and Gisela of Lluçà) died on 26 Jun 1026; was buried in Santa Maria de Ripoll, Ripoll, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Last Full Review: 7 Aug 2020

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• History: He was also known as Count Ramon Borrel I.

Raymond married Ermesinde de Carcassonne in 990/91. Ermesinde (daughter of Roger I, Count of Carcassonne and Adelaide of Auvergne) died on 1 Mar 1057. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancho married Gisela of Lluçà on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Last Full Review: 7 Aug 2020

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• Living: 948

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He was a vassal of the Emirs of Cordoba.

Borrell married Luitgarde de Toulouse in 968. Luitgarde (daughter of Raimond III, Count of Toulouse and Albi, Duke of Aquitaine, Marquis of Gothie and Gersende of Gascony) died after 977. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• General Information: He was a vassal of William the Pious.
• Title(s): 949; In 949 he became the Seigneur de Foix.
• Title(s): 957; In 957 he became the Count of Comminges as Roger III.
• Title(s): 983; In 983 he became the Count of Couserans.
• Title(s): About 1000; He became the Count of Carcassonne inheriting the county of Carcassonne from his mother about 1000.
• Last Full Review: 28 Apr 2020

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Death: Stuart (2002) gives his death as 1019.

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Roger married Adelaide of Auvergne in 969. Adelaide (daughter of Bernard II "Hairy Foot", Count of Auvergne and Senegonde) died after 1011. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Last Full Review: 28 Apr 2020

Garcia married Aba Ribagorza on 958 - 961. Aba (daughter of Ramon II, Count of Ribagorza and Gersinde de Fezensac) died after 995 in Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]