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  History of Barcelona, from Phoenicians and the Greeks settlement until nowdays
Ramon Berenguer IV united Catalunya with Aragon though marriage, resulting in his son Alfonso II becoming the first Aragon-Catalan king, ruling the Mediterranean coast all the way to Nice.
Barcelona acted as the focal point for the exchange of scholar and scientific knowledge between the European and Muslim worlds and the arts flourished under the great patrionage.
The 16th century, which was a golden age for Spain, saw Barcelona's influence decline further and eventually Madrid, a previously insignificant city in the centre on the country was made the capital.
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  Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the last Catalan monarch to use the title of Count as his first; starting with his son Alfonso II of Aragon the counts of Barcelona styled themselves, in the first place, as kings of Aragon.
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 Cerdagne and lands north of the Pyrenees.
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 Counts of Provence   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The now-extinct title of Count of Provence belonged to local families of Frankishish origin, to the House of Barcelona, to the House of Anjou and to a cadet branch of the House of Valois.
Gerberge died in 1112, passing the county to her daughter Douce, whose husband, Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona thus became Ramon Berenguer I of Provence.
Counts of Provence and Forcalquier, Dukes of Anjou and (nominal) Kings of Sicily, of the Valois-Anjou dynasty
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 Encyclopedia: Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Petronila of Aragon (1135- October 17, 1174, Barcelona) was the daughter of King Ramiro II of Aragon and Agnes of Poitiers, a.
Alfonso II of Aragon (Alfons I of Provence and Barcelona, 1152-1196), known as the Chaste or the Troubadour was king of Aragon and count of Barcelona from 1162 to 1196.
Counts of Barcelona Petronila of Aragon (1135- October 17, 1174, Barcelona) was the daughter of King Ramiro II of Aragon and Agnes of Poitiers, a.
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 30th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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).
Hugh de Clermont, Count of Clermont and Seigneur of Creil and Mouchy was born circa 1030 in Clermont, Oise département, Picardie région, France.
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 Counts of Provence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The now-extinct title of Count of Provence belonged to local families of Frankish origin, to the House of Barcelona, to the House of Anjou and to a cadet branch of the House of Valois.
Gerberge died in 1112, passing the county to her daughter, whose husband, Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona thus became Ramon Berenguer I of Provence.
Ramon Berenguer IV left no male heirs, so he left the counties of Provence and Forcalquier to his fourth daughter, Beatrice, and her husband, Charles d'Anjou
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 Articles - Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born in 1082 in Rodez, he was the son of Ramon Berenguer II.
After 1097, when Berenguer Ramon II was forced into exile, he was the sole ruler.
In alliance with the Count of Urgell Ramon Berenguer conquered Barbastro and Balaguer.
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 TORTOSA - LoveToKnow Article on TORTOSA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The city is connected with Barcelona and Valencia by the coast railway, and with Saragossa by the Ebro valley line; it is also the terminus of a railway to San Carlos de la Rflpita on the Mediterranean.
in 1148, and was captured by Ramon Berenguer IV., count of Barcelona, assisted by Templars, Pisans and Genoese.
An attempt to recapture the city in 1149 was defeated by the heroism of the women, who were thenceforth empowered by the count to wear the red sash of the Order of La Hacha (The Axe), to import their clothes free of duty, and to precede their bridegrooms at weddings.
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 The Bailey Family   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Constanza Princess Of ARAGON VALENCIA AND MAJORCA was born in 1239 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Parents: Ramon Berenguer IV Count Of BARCELONA [PRINCE OF ARAGON] and Petronila I Queen Of ARAGON.
Isabelle Princess Of ARAGON was born in 1247 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - The Rise of AARagon: an MES AAR
On January 1, 1150, Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona and Prince of Aragon held a council with all of the nobles in the country in his capital, Barcelona.
Ramon Berenguer IV's eldest daughter was sent to Leon to marry the prince of that kingdom.
On August 8, 1162, Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona and Prince of Aragon died.
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 List of Aragonese monarchs
The title of Count of Barcelona belonged to the Aragonese monarch after Alfonso II inherited it from his father Ramon Berenguer IV.
1131 1162 Ramon Berenguer IV (married Petronila of Aragon
1137 1163 Peronella or Petronila (married Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona)
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 Barcelona History Timeline
Barcelona is one of the most ancient cities in Spain, and certainly it is rich with history.
...Barcelona became once again an important center, due to the industrial revolution, it’s position on the Mediterranean and the proximity of availability of lignite in the Bergueda, a county lying in the interior of Catalunya.
Barcelona developed architecturally and culturally and finally, when 1992 came, people saw Barcelona in all it’s glory and yearned to visit this city of Gaudi, beaches and passion.
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 AllRefer.com - Spain - Castile And Aragon | Spanish Information Resource
The most significant of the counties in Catalonia was that held by the counts of Barcelona.
Aragon and the Catalan counties were federated in 1137 through the marriage of Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona, and Petronilla, heiress to the Aragonese throne.
Berenguer assumed the title of king of Aragon, but he continued to rule as count in Catalonia.
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 Facsimile Editions
The real centre of this kingdom was Barcelona, since it had a seaport and was near the geographical centre of the Crown of Aragon, while Valencia was the most important seaport for trade until approximately the 18th century.
Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, for long an autonomous region in Spain.
It is argued that the name dates from the union of the Count of Barcelona, Ramon Berenguer IV with Princess Petronila, daughter of Ramiro II, King of Aragon.
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 Infozaragoza.com, Magazine of Leisure, Tourism and Services.
The future wife contributed "the Kingdom of Aragón in her integrity", but Ramiro of reserved the right of being King, Gentleman and Father in the mentioned kingdom and all your counties (of the count of Barcelona) while it pleased to him.
The dynastic union with the house of Barcelona caused the consolidation and continuation of the territorial conquests front to the andalusí world.
The work of Ramon Berenguer was the one to unite what soon it would be the county of Barcelona.
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 Ramon Berenguer IV --  Encyclopædia Britannica
byname Ramon Berenguer the Holy, Catalan Ramon Berenguer el Sant count of Barcelona from 1131 to 1162, regent of Provence from 1144 to 1157, and ruling prince of Aragon from 1137 to 1162.
count of Barcelona from 1162 and king of Aragon from 1164.
Pope Gregory VII's 11th-century removal of Henry IV from the throne of Germany, one of the episodes of the Investiture Controversy.
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 (Robert BANASTRE - Isolda (Iseude) BARDOLF )   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Borrell II Count Of BARCELONA (0926 - 30 Sep 0992)
Raimund Berenger II (III) Count of BARCELONA (1055 - 5 Dec 1082)
Ramon Berenguer IV Count of BARCELONA (Prince of Aragon) (1113 - 6 Aug 1162)
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 All words on Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
* Alfonso II of Aragon (I of Catalonia and Provence) the Chaste or the Trobadour (born Ramon Berenguer, 1157, d.
* Pedro, Count of Cerdanya, Carcassonne and Narbonne, (born 1152, d.
* Sancho, Count of Roussillon, Regent of Aragon (b.
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 All words on Alfonso II of Aragon
Born Ramon Berenguer, he ascended the united thrones of Aragon (1164) and Barcelona (1162) as Alfonso, changing his name in compliment to the Aragonese, to honor King Alfonso I of Aragon.
He was the first ruler to be both king of Aragon and count of Barcelona.
He was also Count of Provence from 1181 to 1185.
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 The Forsythe Saga
[5240787508] Geoffrey, I, Count of Anjou [Geofffrey Greygown, Godfrey Greymantle, Geofffrey Grisgonelle]
Ramon Borrell, I, Count of Barcelona and Ermensinde de Carcassonne
Geoffrey, I, Count of Anjou [Geofffrey Greygown, Godfrey Greymantle, Geofffrey Grisgonelle]
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 Articles - Aragon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Aragón was also the name of the crown, because of the dynastic union of a Count of Barcelona (Ramon Berenguer IV) with a Queen of Aragón (Petronila of Aragon), their son inheriting all their respective territories.
The real centre of this kingdom was Barcelona, since it had a seaport and was near the geographical centre of the Crown of Aragon, while Valencia was the most important seaport for trade until approximately the 18th century.
Barcelona was the center of what was in many ways a Mediterranean Empire, ruling the Mediterranean Sea and setting rules for the entire sea (for instance, in the Llibre del Consolat del Mar, in Catalan).
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 Ramon Bailey - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ramon Bailey   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ramon Bailey - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ramon Bailey.
Ramon Bailey (born February 22, 1984 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an Jamaican soccer midfielder and forward, who currently plays for the MetroStars of Major League Soccer.
Bailey emmigrated to the United States and The Bronx at the age of nine.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Count Raimond Berenger BARCELONA, V ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
Count Raimond Berenger BARCELONA, IV Countess Dulce Aldonza Milhaud BARCELONA
Allies were secured of the lords to the east and south, especially the assistance of Raymond Berenger who was Count of Barcelona and husband of the queen of Aragon, and who had extensive claims and interests in the valley of the Rhone.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol I, p232, Alfonso II: "Alfonso was the son of Petronila, Queen of Aragon, and her consort, Ramon Berenguer IV, who had inherited the countships ofBarcelona, Besalu, and Cerdana from his father and that of Provence from his mother..."
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 Lleida   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was conquered from the Moors by the Count Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona in 1148.
Lleida served as a key defense point for Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, and fell to the Insurgents in 1938/.
The line is expected to be extended to Barcelona/ in the next few years.
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 Raimund Berengar III. (Barcelona)
Berenguela: Alfonso married Berenguela Raimundo de Barcelona, daughter of Ramón III "el Grande" Berenguer Conde de Barcelona y de Provenza and Dolça de Gévaudun, in 1128 in Saldana.
Bernat Berenguer: A modest castle lord was Bernat Berenguer; who became Ramon Renard's "solid man" in 1124.
Their pact stipulated that Bernat Berenguer should join Ramon Renard's son or the count or Berenguer de Queralt in military expeditions if Ramon Renard could not go personally and ordered him to participate
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 Search Results for ramon - Encyclopædia Britannica
count of Barcelona during whose reign (1097–1131) independent Catalonia reached the summit of its historical greatness, spreading its ships over the western Mediterranean and acquiring new lands from...
count of Barcelona who reigned jointly with his twin brother, Berenguer Ramon II, from 1076 to 1082.
Spanish histologist who (with Camillo Golgi) received the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for establishing the neuron, or nerve cell, as the basic unit of nervous structure.
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