Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer III | |
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.jpg) Ramon Berenguer in the late 12th-century Liber feudorum maior | |
| Count of Barcelona | |
| Reign | 1086–1131 |
| Predecessor | Berenguer Ramon II |
| Successor | Ramon Berenguer IV |
| Born | 11 November 1082 Rodez, Viscounty of Rodez |
| Died | 23 January/19 July 1131
(aged 48) Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Provence |
| Father | Ramon Berenguer II |
| Mother | Maud of Apulia |
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Ramon Berenguer III the Great (11 November 1082 – 23 January or 19 July 1131) was the count of
Biography
Born on 11 November 1082 in Rodez, Viscounty of Rodez, County of Toulouse, Francia, he was the son of Ramon Berenguer II.[1] He succeeded his father to co-rule with his uncle Berenguer Ramon II. He became the sole ruler in 1097, when Berenguer Ramon II was forced into exile.
Responding to increased raids into his lands by the Almoravids in 1102, Ramon counter-attacked, assisted by Ermengol V, Count of Urgell, but was defeated and Ermengol killed at the battle of Mollerussa.[2]
During his rule Catalan interests were extended on both sides of the
In alliance with the Count of
In 1127, Ramon Berenguer signed a
He died on 23 January/19 July 1131 and was buried in the Santa Maria de Ripoll monastery.
Marriages and descendants
- Ramon's first wife was María Rodríguez de Vivar, second daughter of El Cid (died ca. 1105).[8] They had one child.
- His second wife Almodis produced no children.
- His third wife was Their union produced at least seven children:
- Aragón[1]
- Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Provence (ca. 1115–1144)[1]
- Bernat, died young
- Alfonso VII of Castile[10]
- Jimena (1117–1136), also known as Eixemena, married Roger III, Count of Foix[10]
- Estefania (b. 1118), married Centule II, Count of Bigorre
- Almodis, married Ponce de Cervera, mother of Agalbursa, who married Barisone II of Arborea.
References
- ^ a b c d Cheyette 2001, p. 20.
- ^ Reilly 2003, p. 107.
- ^ Reilly 1995, p. 176.
- ^ Reilly 1995, p. 177.
- ^ Phillips 2007, p. 254.
- ^ Upton-Ward 1992, p. 4.
- ^ Nicholson 2010, p. 102.
- ^ Sabaté 2017, p. 144.
- ^ Reilly 1995, p. 174.
- ^ a b Graham-Leigh 2005, p. table 4.
Sources
- Cheyette, Fredric L. (2001). Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801439520.
- Graham-Leigh, Elaine (2005). The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. The Boydell Press. ISBN 1843831295.
- Nicholson, Helen (2010). A Brief History of the Knights Templar. Constable & Robinson Ltd. ISBN 1849011001.
- Phillips, Jonathan P. (2007). The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300112742.
- Reilly, Bernard F. (1995). The Contest Christian and Muslim Spain: 1031–1157. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 063116913X.
- Reilly, Bernard F. (2003). The Medieval Spains. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521397413.
- Sabaté, Flocel, ed. (2017). The Crown of Aragon: A Singular Mediterranean Empire. Brill. ISBN 900434960X.
- Upton-Ward, J.M. (1992). The Rule of the Templars: The French Text of the Rule of the Order of the Knights Templar. The Boydell Press. ISBN 9780851157016.
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