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  Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ramon Berenguer III the Great was the count of Barcelona, Girona, and Osona from 1082 (jointly with Berenguer Ramon II and solely from 1097), Besalú from 1111, Cerdanya from 1117, and Provence, in the Holy Roman Empire, from 1112, all until his death in Barcelona in 1131
Born in 1082 in Rodez, he was the son of Ramon Berenguer II.
In alliance with the Count of Urgell, Ramon Berenguer conquered Barbastro and Balaguer.
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 Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ramon Berenguer successfully pulled Aragon out of its pledged submission to Castile, aided no doubt by the beauty and charm of his sister Berenguela, wife of Alfonso the Emperor, for which she was well-known in her time.
Ramon Berenguer's younger son Pedro inherited the county of Cerdanya and lands north of the Pyrenees.
Alfonso II of Aragon (I of Catalonia and Provence) the Chaste or the Trobadour (born Ramon Berenguer, 1157, d.
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 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer III was Count of Barcelona, Gerona[?] and Vich[?] from 1097-1131.
He was the son of Ramon Berenguer II, and became count when his uncle Berenguer Ramon II was forced into exile.
Ramon Berenguer also had a daughter Berengaria (d.1147), who married Alfonso VII of Castile.
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 Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer II was Count of Barcelona 1076-1082.
Ramon Berenguer II was killed in 1082, possibly at the behest of his twin.
The latter ruled alone and was succeeded by Ramon Berenguer's son Ramon Berenguer III.
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 Chapter 4: A Medieval Catalan Noble Family
Guillem Ramon was also at Narbonne in January 1157 when the bishop of Pamplona surrendered as hostage to the count for the misdeeds of Sanç of Navarre, and he joined Ramon Berenguer on a journey to Haxama in 1158 to treat with the count's nephew Sanç of Castile.
Ramon Berenguer, as regent for the young viscount, presumably helped arrange Gastó's two marriages, the first with the daughter of the king of Navarre and a subsequent with an illegitimate daughter of the king of Castile.
Berenguer Bernat is attested as dapifer from 1112 to 1134.
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 Ancestors and Family of Raimond Bergenguer II of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer II the Towhead was Count of Barcelona, 1076-1082.
Ramon Berenguer the Towhead, called so because of the thickness and colour of his hair, was killed while hunting in the woods on December 5, 1082.
Berenguer Ramon the Fratricide was later succeeded by Ramon Berenguer's son Ramon Berenguer III.
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 Chapter 1: A Medieval Catalan Noble Family
Ramon Guillem de Montcada probably remained loyal to Count Ramon Berenguer during the next year or two when the count's leadership was openly challenged by leading magnates in Barcelona, especially Bishop Guislabert and his nephew Udalard II, viscount of Barcelona.
The Guillem Ramon [I] Seneschal who became part of the comital suite of Ramon Berenguer I in 1068 was a new figure in the court society of Barcelona; he was not the son of Ramon Guillem de Montcada, as most modern historians have assumed.
For it was personal loyalty that counted at this juncture, as Ramon Berenguer swept away the vestiges of the old-style comital court of the post-Carolingian era and broke ground for the formulation of a twelfth-century feudal monarchy.
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 El Cid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their daughters, Cristina and María, both married high nobility; Cristina, to Ramiro, lord of Monzón and bastard descendant of kings of Navarre; María, first to Infante of Aragon and second to Ramón Berenguer III, count of Barcelona.
Through his daughter Cristina, he is a great(x7)-grandfather to Isabella of France, mother of Edward III of England.
In May 1090, the Cid defeated and captured Berenguer in the Battle of Tébar.
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 List of Counts of Barcelona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ramon Berenguer IV el Sant (the Saint) (1131-1162), married Petronila of Aragón, which established the dynastic union with Aragón
Raymond Berenguer IV took the title of Prince of Aragón from his marriage to Petronila and on his death, she abdicated the throne to their son.
The Crown of Aragon (and by definition its constituent County of Barcelona) was officially merged with the other realms that had been ruled by a common monarch for over two and a half centuries to create formally Spain.
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 30th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ramón Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona and Ruling Prince of Aragon "The Holy" was born circa 1113 and married 11 Aug 1137.
Ramon Berenguer IV thus became the last count of Barcelona to take this as his principal title, for, from 1137, he was also ruler of Aragon (though he himself never assumed the title of king).
King Ramiro the Monk, as he is known, married Agnes of Poitiers, produced an heiress, Petronila, betrothed her (aged two) to Ramon Berenguer IV of Catalonia, abdicated in her favor and returned to monastic life.
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 Dona Sol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In historical records called Maria, she married Ramon Berenguer III the Great, Count of Barcelona, the nephew of the Berenguer of the poem.
Ramon Berenguer III the Great was the count of Barcelona, Girona, and Osona from 1082 (jointly with Berenguer Ramon II and solely from 1097).
He was the son of Ramon Berenguer II, who was killed in December 1082, purportedly by his twin brother, Berenguer Ramon II.
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 Rulers of Spain, 718-1153
Ramiro I's son was Alfonso III el Mayor (the Great), who ruled from 866 to 914 and consolidated the kingdom of Galicia during the weakness of the Omayyad princes of Cordova.
His mother was Douce I, the heiress of the marquisate of Provence, and his father, Ramon IV Berenguer, count of Barcelona, ruled Provence in her name.
Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Provence, married the daughter of the count of Savoy, and they had four daughters.
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 31st Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ramón Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona "The Great" was born 11 Nov 1080 in Barcelona, Spain and married 1112.
The son of Ramon Berenguer II, he took the throne on the departure of his uncle, Berenguer Ramon II, and spent his early years fighting off Almoravid Muslims, whose armies approached the very walls of Barcelona.
On his death, Provence went to his younger son, Berenguer Ramon (as Berenguer Ramon I of Provence, reigning 1131to 1144); and the rest of the lands, the most important ones, went to the elder son, Ramon Berenguer IV.
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 Ancestors and Family of Raymond III the Great Berengar
Ramon Berenguer III the Great succeeded his father to co-rule with his uncle Berenguer Ramon II.
After 1097, when Berenguer Ramon II was forced into exile, he was the sole ruler.
Raymond next married Dolca of Provence, daughter of Giselbert III of Rouerque and Gerberga of Provence, on 3 Feb 1112.
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 Learn more about Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Learn more about Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona in the online encyclopedia.
Ramon Berenguer III was Count of Barcelona, Girona and Osona from 1097-1131.
He gave his 5 Catalonian counties to his eldest son Ramon Berenguer IV and Provence to the younger son Berenguer Ramon.
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 Brother Ramon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Berenguer Ramon II the Fratricide was Count of Barcelona 1076-1097.
Ramon Berenguer II was killed while hunting in the woods on December 5, 1082.
Berenguer Ramon II was succeeded by his nephew Ramon Berenguer III,son of Ramon Berenguer II.
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 HISTORY ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hug and Berenguer, sons of Ponç I of Empúries, inherit the castle
War between Ponç Hug II of Empúries and the count of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer IV The castle is mentioned in another agreement between the counts of Empúries and Rosselló
In 1128 the Empuritan count Ponç Hug II was attacked, defeated, and imprisoned by Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona in the castle of Quermançó.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - Gesta Comitium Tolosae (a Mongolian Scenario AAR)
At nightfall Ramon Berenguer III gathered his men while Raimon and Roger Trencavell ordered the withdrawal to the other side of the Rhone river.
Ramon Berenguer III was surely in no better situation, because we achieved a much better peace treaty that we could hope.
His rule was brief, because she died in 1172 and the county passed to Ramon Berenguer IV of Provence.
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 [RCTS] Jaime I and The Templars
During the XIIth century, and as a consequence of the spectacular advance of the Reconquest, the Iberian Peninsular experienced a profound transformation in its economic and social structure.
The Templars were favoured by Ramon Berenguer III, nicknamed "The Great", who was also a professed Knight Templar, and especially by his son, Ramon Berenguer IV.
The education of James I and his cousin, Ramon Berenguer, Count of Provençe (whose title Pedro II had held) was entrusted to the Master of Monredon who put his residence, the Castle of Monredon, at their disposal.
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 Palma de Mallorca
In 1115, with the help of Pisans, Conde Ramon Berenguer III invaded the island, cleared out the Moorish pirates and freed 30,000 Christian slaves (I assume the 30,000 figure was his estimate).
Ramon left the following year and the island returned to Moorish rule for another 60 years.
Ten years later (in 1295) the successor of Alfons III (The Greedy?) returned the kingdom to Jaume II, who ruled until his son Sanc became king in 1311.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tarragona
Bishop Berenguer had died in 1110, after having assisted, in 1096, at the Council of Nîmes convoked by Urban II.
In 1117 Count Ramón Berenguer III conferred on him the government of the city that he might endeavour to recolonize it, which work he carried on with great zeal.
He assisted at the councils of Toulouse and Reims (1109), of the Lateran (1123), and of Clermont (1130), and accompanied the Count of Barcelona as pontifical legate in the war which terminated in the imposition of a tribute upon Tortosa and Lérida.
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 FROM WILFRED THE HAIRY TO RAMON BERENGUER IV, Barcelona Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
Early counts, like Ramon Berenguer I (1035-76) concentrated on establishing their superiority over the other local counts, which was bitterly resisted.
Ramon Berenguer III (1144-66) added considerable territory to the his realms with his marriage in 1113 to a Provençal heiress, and made alliances and commercial treaties with Muslim and Christian powers around the Western Mediterranean.
The most important stage in Catalunya's development as a significant power, however, came in 1137 with the marriage of Ramon Berenguer IV to Petronella, the two-year-old daughter of King Ramiro II of Aragón.
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 Christian Rulers
Alfonso III the Great (866-910) was in 909 proclaimed Emperor by his sons after they rebelled and usurped his kingdom.
Crowned king of Castile by Vermudo III of León, who he later kills thus acquiring the Leónese crown as well.
The Kingdom of Majorca was at constant strife with its former parent Aragon, till Pedro IV the Ceremonious of Aragon conquered the kingdom and annexed it again to Aragon after the Battle of Lluchmajor (1349) in which Jaime III the Unfortunate of Majorca died.
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 My Lines - Person Page 286
She married Ramón Berenguer III "el Grande", conde de Barcelona y de Provenza, son of Ramón Berenguer II "Cabeza de Estopa", conde de Barcelona and Maud de Hauteville, circa 1099; His 1st.
She married Ramón Berenguer III "el Grande", conde de Barcelona y de Provenza, son of Ramón Berenguer II "Cabeza de Estopa", conde de Barcelona and Maud de Hauteville, in 1106; His 2nd (widower).
He was the son of Ramón Berenguer III "el Grande", conde de Barcelona y de Provenza and Dolça de Gévaudun.
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 Kings of Aragon
The most important of these were Aragon, which became the name of the united crown as it was a kingdom and Barcelona just a county.
The Kingdom of Aragon had been created when Sancho III of Navarre partitioned his kingdom between his three sons 1035.
Queen Petronilla married the count of Barcelona, Ramón Berenguer IV, and their mutual son took over both states when the father died 1162.
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