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  RAUL N. LONGORIA'S GENEALOGY DATABASE
Renaud I of Burgundy (Count of Burgundy) was born in 990.
Spouse: Alfonso VII (the Emperor) RAIMUNDEZ (Count of Castile).
Spouse: Raymond of Burgundy (Count of Galicia and Coimbr).
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Peter, Count of Urgell
He was Count of Urgell and King of the Balearic Islands by marriage with Countess Aurembiaix of Urgell.
Peter was openly in love with Ines, recognized all the children she bore, and, worst of all, favoured the Castilians that surrounded her.
Peter's only male heir, future king Fernando of Portugal, was a sickly child, while the illegitimate children sired with Ines thrived.
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  Afonso IV of Portugal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Peter was openly in love with Ines, recognized all the children she bore, and, worst of all, favoured the Castilians that surrounded her.
Peter's only male heir, future king Fernando of Portugal, was a sickly child, while the illegitimate children sired with Ines thrived.
Enraged at the barbaric act, Peter put himself at the head of an army and devastated the country between the Douro and the Minho rivers before he was reconciled to his father in early 1357.
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 Afonso I of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Afonso I was the son of Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal and Teresa of León, the illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castile and León.
Thus, the royal heiress Urraca of Castile wedded Raymond of Burgundy, younger son of the Count of Burgundy, and her half-sister, princess Teresa of León, wedded his cousin, another French crusader, Henry of Burgundy, younger brother of the Duke of Burgundy, whose mother was daughter of the Count of Barcelona.
Afonso married in 1146 Mafalda or Maud of Savoy (1125-1158), daughter of Amadeo III, Count of Savoy, and Mafalda of Albon.
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 RAUL N. LONGORIA'S GENEALOGY DATABASE
Spouse: Raymond Berengar Borrell III (Count of Barcelona).
Spouse: Guifre (Wilfred) the Hairy (Count of Barcelona).
Spouse: Sunifred I of Urgell (Count of Barcelona).
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 Alfonso IV of Aragon at AllExperts
Alfonso IV of Aragon, surnamed the Kind (Catalan: Alfons el Benigne) (1299 – January 24 1336) was the king ofAragon and count of Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to 1336.
She was the sister of Alfonso XI of Castile and was murdered by her nephew Peter I of Castile.
Married Maria of Portugal (daughter of Peter I of Portugal) and was killed by his half-brother Peter IV.
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 Chapter 7: Charity and Welfare
At Urgell, this discrimination might well be explained by the fact that shortly after the establishment of the New Hospital, the older institution itself changed and became a shelter for needy clergy.
The story is much the same in small cities like Urgell where the unrest of the mid-fifteenth century not only forced the consolidation of hospitals but also compelled the surviving institution to turn to the municipal consuls for operating subsidies.
At Urgell, for example, she argues that the typical legacy to the municipal hospital in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries ranged up to thirty sous, or else consisted of the decedent's bed and bed linen.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Counts of Urgell
870-897 Wilfred the Hairy, count of Barcelona, Girona-Osona and Urgell-Cerdanya
On October, 31, 1413 the last count of Urgell and heir to the Catalan throne surrendered to the Trastámara King Fernando de Antequera.
Count Jaume was murdered in jail in Játiva on June 1 1433.
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 Afonso I of Portugal Summary
Afonso I was the son of Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal and Teresa of León, the illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castile and León.
Thus, the royal heiress Urraca of Castile wedded Raymond of Burgundy, younger son of the Count of Burgundy, and her half-sister, princess Teresa of León, wedded his cousin, another French crusader, Henry of Burgundy, younger brother of the Duke of Burgundy, whose mother was daughter of the Count of Barcelona.
Afonso married in 1146 Mafalda or Maud of Savoy (1125-1158), daughter of Amadeo III, Count of Savoy, and Mafalda of Albon.
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 Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck
Peter de Vinea was put in charge of the chancery and composed a new code of laws to replace customary and feudal laws such as ordeals and rights of wreck.
Peter of Dreux eventually was reconciled to Louis in 1234 and was allowed to rule Brittany as his vassal until his son John came of age.
Peter des Roches was serving the Pope in Italy, and Henry wrote to the Emperor that he had been led astray by Bishop Peter.
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 The Ancient Kingdom of Majorca - Search and Go
In 1344, James III was dispossessed of the kingdom by Peter IV of Aragon, his cousin and overlord, and was killed attempting to recover it in 1349, after which the title of King of Majorca became nominal.
When James Count of Urgel, who according to the law of succession should have inherited the throne after Martin I, died in captivity in 1433 the legitimate line passed to the Duke of Gandia who died without heir in 1454.
Peter first Baron of Ayerbe had a son Michael who in turn sired a boy, Giovanni the Elder born in 1347 and who in 1398 became Vicar General of the Kingdom of Sicily.
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His marriage to Petronila of Aragon implied the union of the County of Barcelona and the Kingdom of Aragon in a new state, this union later being confirmed in the 14th century by Peter IV of Aragon ("Peter the Ceremonious").
In contrast, the Majorcan territory together with that of the counts of Cerdanya and Roussillon and the city of Montpellier were left as a kingdom for his son James II of Majorca as the Kingdom of Majorca.
The reign of Peter the Ceremonious was a time of war: the annexation of Majorca, the quelling of a rebellion in Sardinia, a rebellion by Aragonese unionists (that is, a faction who wished to extinguish local privileges in favor of a more centralized kingdom of Aragon), and, above all, war with Castile.
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 Women in power 1300-1350
The daughter of Bonifacio da Verona, Lord of Negropont, she was married to Alfonso Fadrique de Aragon, Count of Malta and Gozzo, Lord of Salona and of certain territories on Greece.
After her death, her husband was count again, until he was succeeded in 1341 by niece, Jeanne, who had succeeded his father (the said Gui VII) as Countess of Penthièvre in 1331.
She was first married to Count Robert VIII de Boulogne et d'Auvergne and secondly to Ingeler I d'Ambroise, with whom she had four children, of which the three daughters reached adulthood.
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 HISTORY Principality of Andorra Brussels belgium MERITXELL
In the Charter granted by Charles the Bald to Sunifred in 843 the territory of Andorra was defined as a possession of the County of Urgell, and in the Act of Consecration of the Cathedral of the See of Urgell, signed in 860, it was made clear that the County was subject to the Church.
The discord and violent confrontations between the Bishops of Urgell and the Counts of Foix ceased thanks to the efforts of King Peter II of Catalonia-Aragon and some Catalan counts who were concerned about keeping their prerogatives.
Following a series of marriages, the Co-Lordship of the Count of Foix passed first to the Viscounts of Béarn and then to the French Head of State when Henry IV of Béarn, Count of Foix and Navarre, became King of France.
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 Saints of July 7
Because he believed that no one should be left in distress, he considered the revenues of the church as the patrimony of the poor and administered them wisely for their use.
He counted the poet Venantius Fortunatus as a friend, who mentions that Felix wrote a poetic panegyric on Queen Saint Radegund and completed the cathedral begun by his predecessor.
Count Guerech II of Vannes had plundered Rennes and Vannes and repulsed the troops of King Chilperic; yet he withdrew and made peace at the request of Felix.
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Infante Afonso, Count of Boulogne (future Afonso III)
Sancho married Dulce Berenguer, daughter of Raymond Berengar IV, Count of Barcelona, and Petronilla, Queen of Aragon.
Count of Urgell and Lord of the Balearic Islands, lived in León and married Arembiax Armengel, Countess of Urgell
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 Women in power 1300-1350
The second wife of Charles I of France, Count d'Anjou et du Maine, Provence et de Forcalquier etc. King of Sicilia (1265), Titular King of Jerusalem (1267) and King of Napoli and Jerusalem (1265), she lived (1249-1308).
She was daughter of Jean d'Oyselet, Seigneur de Flagey, the issue of an illegitimate branch of the Counts of Bourgogne.
She was daughter of Giovanni Orsini, Lord of Leukas and Count of Kefalonia and Maria Komnene Dukaina Angelina of Epirus.
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 Bishop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The most famous example of this is the Apostle Peter himself, who was married and had children.
It remains unclear however, whether a kind of celibacy or abstinence had to be practiced by these first bishops and apostles after their appointment or episcopal consecration (see also clerical celibacy).
It is interesting to note that in the second chapter of 1 Peter, Jesus is described as 'the Shepherd and Episkopos of your souls' (τον ποιμενα και επισκοπον των ψυχων υμων).
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 Biographies of New Blesseds - 2005
She was one of 10 children born to Peter Koob, a farmer, and Barbara Witzenbacher Koob.
The seven priests of the Diocese of Urgell, Spain, assassinated out of hatred for the faith during the persecution as part of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), were imprisoned in the city of La Pobla de Segur (Lleida, Catalonia).
Peter Martret Moles was born in Seu de Urgell, Lleida, in 1901 and was ordained a priest in 1925.
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 The genealogy of the Perillos family
Ramon thus found himself lord of the castle of Rodès (1359), in perpetuity (1370) and was a procurator at the time of the alliance between the count de Foix (1365) and the governor of Roussillon (1376).
Ferdinand sent him to the count of Urgell, and he was one of the procurators who arranged the oath of fidelity of the count to the new king (1412).
He acquired the castle of Rodès and the village of Llo (1393), and, in 1396, was sent to finalise a treaty between the count of Armagnac and the king of France, in the hope to avoid an invasion.
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 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Peter I of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pedro I of Portugal (April 8, 1320 – January 18, 1367) was the eighth king of Portugal (in English, Peter I), known as the Cruel (not to be confused with Pedro I of Castile, also known as Pedro the Cruel) or as the Lawful (Port.
He married again to Constance of Castile, daughter of Juan Manuel, Count of Penagiel, and Constance of Aragon.
Married Sancho of Castile, Count of Albuquerque and Haro.
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 RBMS Security Committee: Theft Reports 1987-1996
Peter L. Stern and Co., Boston, reported the theft of Hemingway's The Old Man and the sea, 1952, 1st edition.
Peter Lawson, 44, of Stepney, east London, a trainee bookbinder with an obsession for books was put on probation for two years after promising that he would stay away from bookshops.
Peter Lubin, convicted of the theft of a large number of books and maps from Harvard libraries, was banned from the Harvard libraries.
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 Chapter 5: A Medieval Catalan Noble Family
Alfons's efforts were aimed at combating the initiatives of Count Ramon V of Toulouse, who remained until 1176 a persistent adversary in the politics of the Midi.
Guillem Ramon soon became a participant in the alliance of the count-king and the Montcadas with the count of Urgell.
Important achievements of this assembly of barons, churchmen and municipal representatives were the approval of the tax known as the bovatge; the reconciliation of Guerau, viscount of Cabrera, with Jaume and his pro-Urgell allies (Guillem de Cervera, Ramon de Montcada, and Guillem Ramon Seneschal); and a renewal of peace and truce statutes.
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 THE EARLY COUNTS OF - Online Information article about THE EARLY COUNTS OF
Roussillon, Ampurias, Besaltu, Barcelona, Cerdena, Pallars and Urgell.
1035-1067 1067-1094 1094-1102 1102-1134 1134-1137 1137-1164 counts of Barcelona who became independent with Wilfred I. by 874.
He and his immediate descendants gradually subdued the other counts.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 3
Saint Peter's was a daughter-house of Monte Cassino; for this reason Saint Amicus is often called a monk of Monte Cassino, and was held in special veneration in that abbey (Benedictines).
Sometimes he is shown walking with Count Sintlatz on the island of Reichenau while the abbey is being built.
The son of Count Ballachi, nephew of two archbishops of Rimini, and brother of a priest, Simon Ballachi became a Dominican lay-brother at age 27.
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 The Cathars: Who's Who In The Cathar War: The Counts of Foix.
A descendant of the Count later gave the lands to the Bishop of Urgell.
Later, the Count of Foix became heir to Lord Caboet through marriage, and a dispute arose between the French Count and the Spanish bishop over Andorra.
In the thirteenth century Roger Bernard III Count of Foix married Marguerite de Moncade, heir to Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn.
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 Afonso III of Portugal Summary
As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, Afonso was not expected to inherit the throne, which was destined to go to his elder brother Sancho.
Finally, in 1267, a treaty was signed in Badajoz, determining that the southern border between Castile and Portugal should be the River Guadiana, as it is today.
Afonso's first wife was Matilda II of Boulogne, daughter of Renaud, Count of Dammartin, and Ida of Boulogne.
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