Abt 1055 - 1082 (27 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Raymond Berenger II "Cabeza de Estope", Count of Barcelona was born about 1055 (son of Raymond Berenger I "the Old", Count of Barcelona and Almodis de la Marche, Countess of Limoges); died on 5 Dec 1082. Notes:
Name:
His full title was the Count of Barcelona, Gerona, Osona, Carcassonne, and Rasez.
Died:
He was murdered by his half-brother.
Raymond married Mathilda of Apulia in 1078. Mathilda (daughter of Robert Guiscard d'Hauteville, Duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily and Sikelgaita) was born about 1058; died in 1111/12. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Raymond Berenger III "el Grande", Marquis of Barcelona and Count of Provence was born on 11 Nov 1080; died on 19 Aug 1131.
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Generation: 2
2. | Raymond Berenger I "the Old", Count of Barcelona was born in 1023 (son of Raymond Berenger I "al Cueva", Count of Barcelona and Sancha Sánchez); died on 26 May 1076 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Other Events and Attributes:
- 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 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]
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3. | Almodis de la Marche, Countess of Limoges was born about 1020 (daughter of Bernard I, Count de la Haute Marche and Perigord and Amelia, Countess of Aubnay); died on 16 Oct 1071; was buried in Barcelona Cathedral, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Other Events and Attributes:
- General Information: She was famed for her marriage career, in particularly for her third marriage to Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona, with whom she committed double bigamy, for which the Pope had them excommunicated. William of Malmesbury reflected that she was, "sad, [of] unbridled lewdness".
Her name was also spelt Arlette or Almode.
- Religion: 1054; In 1054 Pope Victor II excommunicated Almodis and Ramon for this illegal marriage until 1056.
- Travel: 1066/67, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France; In 1066/67 she traveled to Toulouse for her daughter's wedding.
- Last Full Review: 7 Aug 2020
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Died:
Peter Raymundi resented Almodis' influence and was concerned she was trying to replace him with her own two sons, his consanguinous nephews, both who had claims through their father, Count La Marche. He murdered her.
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Generation: 3
4. | Raymond Berenger I "al Cueva", Count of Barcelona was born in 1005 (son of Raymond Borrel I, Count of Barcelona, Gerona and Osona and Ermesinde de Carcassonne); died on 26 May 1035; was buried in Santa Maria de Ripoll, Ripoll, Catalonia, Spain. Other Events and Attributes:
- 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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7. | Amelia, Countess of Aubnay was born about 1005 (daughter of Geraud de Montignac and Nonia de Granol); died in 1072. Other Events and Attributes:
- Last Full Review: 8 Jun 2020
Children:
- Rangarde
- Aldebert II, Count of la Marche was born between 1010 and 1056; died in 1088.
- 3. Almodis de la Marche, Countess of Limoges was born about 1020; died on 16 Oct 1071; was buried in Barcelona Cathedral, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- Matilda de la Marche was born about 1028 in La Marche, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
- Lucie de la Marche was born between 1010 and 1052; died after 1090.
- Rangearde de la Marche was born about 1017 in Narbonne, Aude, Occitanie, France; died on 16 Oct 1071.
- Adalbert II, Count of Périgord was born about 1032; died in abt1104.
- Hélie III, Count of Périgord was born between 1010 and 1064.
- Aina de Périgord was born between 1002 and 1034.
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Generation: 4
11. | Gisela of Lluçà Other Events and Attributes:
- Last Full Review: 7 Aug 2020
Children:
- 5. Sancha Sánchez died on 26 Jun 1026; was buried in Santa Maria de Ripoll, Ripoll, Catalonia, Spain.
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