- 1026
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
2. | Raymond Berenger I "the Old", Count of Barcelona (1.Sancha1) was born in 1023; 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
Notes:
Name:
Legal:
Raymond married Isabel on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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]
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3. | Sanç Berenguer (1.Sancha1) Other Events and Attributes:
- Land/House: say 1035
- Oath: 1041 to 1049
- Land/House: 9 Jun 1050
- Religion: say 1051
Notes:
Land/House:
He received the frontier march from the Llobregat to the al-Andalus, which constituted the new county of Penedès with its capital in Olèrdola
Oath:
Sanç swore fealty to his elder brother.
Land/House:
He ceded his inheritance to Ramon, who in return granted him some lands and men as a fief
Religion:
Sanç then entered the church, first as a monk at Saint-Pons-de-Thomières and then as the prior of Sant Benet de Bages, before it became an abbey.
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Generation: 3
6. | Peter Raymundi (2.Raymond2, 1.Sancha1) was born in 1050; died about 1073. Other Events and Attributes:
Notes:
Legal:
he murdered his father's third wife, Almodis, and was exiled.
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Generation: 4
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