Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence
Ramon Berenguer IV( 1198 – 19 August 1245) was a member of the House of Barcelona who ruled as count of Provence and Forcalquier.
He was the first count of Provence to live in the county in more than one hundred years.
Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona
Berenguer Ramon I[ Berengar Raymond I]( 1005 – 26 May 1035), called the Crooked or the Hunchback( in Latin" curvus"; in Catalan" el Corbat"; in Spanish" el Corvado" or" el Curvo"), was the count of Barcelona, Girona, and Ausona from 1018 to his death.
He was the son of Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona, Girona, and Ausona and his wife Ermesinde of Carcassonne.
He accepted the suzerainty of Sancho the Great of Navarre.
Berenguer Ramon as a historical figure is enigmatic, shrouded in incomprehensible contradictions and ambiguities.
First, he was a man of peace, and peace ruled throughout his reign.
He pacified his neighbours as well, bringing to heel the Count of Urgell, Ermengol II.
He reestablished amicable relations with Hugh I, Count of Empúries, and maintained them with William I of Besalú and Wilfred II of Cerdanya.
He was a son of the church who maintained relations with the papacy and went on a pilgrimage to Rome in 1032.
On many occasions he travelled to Zaragoza and Navarre to discuss with Sancho III the Great, King of Navarre their mutual stance against the Counts of Toulouse.
His confidantes and councillors were the Abbot Oliva, the judge Ponç Bofill, Gombau de Besora, and the Bishops Pedro of Girona and Deudado of Barcelona.
In 1025, he decreed that the proprietors of entails( men holding land in fee tail) were free from taxation.
On the other hand, the government of Berenguer Ramon I marks the beginning of the decline of the comital power.
At the death of his father in 1018, Berenguer Ramon was a minor and his mother Ermesinde served as regent until 1023.
But even when he attained his majority, his mother would not relinquish the powers of regency and reigned with him.
According to some chroniclers, Berenguer's character left some things to be desired.
He is described as weak and indecisive.
Moreover, his policy of peace with the Moors was a bone of contention with the noblesse, who saw war with the Muslims as a way of obtaining glory, wealth, and possibly even salvation.
This led some nobles to act independently of the count's wishes.
Ermesinde," contra" her son, was energetic and decisive, intent on imposing the authority of Barcelona on the baronage.
But, as a woman, her capability to exercise control of the military was greatly impeded and organizing a raid or expedition to satisfy the wants of the aristocracy was virtually impossible.
The weakening of comital authority became evident shortly before his death in 1035, when Ermesinde successfully partitioned his patrimony among his sons.
Berenguer Ramon died on 26 May 1035 and was buried in Santa Maria de Ripoll.
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Ermessende of Pelet
Ermessende of Pelet was the last heiress of the County of Melgueil, in southern France, and the last countess before it was joined with the County of Toulouse.
Ermessende was the daughter of Bernard V Pelet, who had married Beatrice, daughter of Bernard IV of Melgueil and widow of Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence.
As her consort Bernard V ruled the county from 1146 to 1170.
Ermessende first married Pierre Bermond, lord of Anduze, and they ruled Melgueil from 1170 to 1172 when he died.
In 1173 she married Raymond VI of Toulouse.
Ermessende died in 1176; her will, made shortly before, was heard before the cardinal deacon Raymond des Arènes, Aldebert, bishop of Nîmes, Bernard Ato V, viscount of Nîmes and Agde, and Gui Guerrejat, guardian of William VIII of Montpellier.
After 1176 Raymond VI continued to rule Melgueil until 1190.
He did not die until 1222.
Berenguer Ramon II, Count of Barcelona
Berenguer Ramon II" the Fratricide"( 1053/54 – 1097/99) was Count of Barcelona from 1076 to 1097.
He was the son of Ramon Berenguer I, and initially ruled jointly with his twin brother Ramon Berenguer II.
Born in 1053 or 1054, Berenguer Ramon succeeded his father Ramon Berenguer I" the Old" in 1075 to co-rule with his twin brother Ramon Berenguer II.
The twins failed to agree and divided their possessions between them, against the will of their late father.
Ramon Berenguer
II was killed while hunting in the woods on 5 December 1082.
Berenguer Ramon II, who became the sole ruler of Catalonia for the next four years, was credited by popular opinion with having orchestrated this murder.
This suspicion and other divisions of loyalty led to a civil war.
Various parties asserted ways to resolve this' unjust and iniquitous murder', which led to a moderate compromise in 1086 in which Berenguer Ramon II would rule Catalonia with his brother's four- year- old son Ramon Berenguer III for eleven years until he came of age.
In the 1080s Berenguer Ramon's involvement in the internal strife in the Moorish taifa kingdoms brought him in conflict with El Cid.
In the ensuing war the Count of Barcelona was twice taken prisoner.
After Berenguer Ramon's resignation in 1097 his life became more obscure.
Still living under the accusations of his brother's assassination, the guilt of which may have been determined by trial by combat, which he lost, he went to Jerusalem, either on pilgrimage, as a penance, or as part of the First Crusade, and perished there between 1097 and 1099.
Berenguer Ramon II was succeeded by his nephew Ramon Berenguer III, son of Ramon Berenguer II.
Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer III" the Great" was the count of Barcelona, Girona, and Ausona from 1086( jointly with Berenguer Ramon II and solely from 1097), Besalú from 1111, Cerdanya from 1117, and count of Provence in the Holy Roman Empire, from 1112, all until his death in Barcelona in 1131.
As Ramon Berenguer I, he was Count of Provence from 1112 in right of his wife.
Douce I, Countess of Provence
Douce I (also Dulcia or Dolça, called "of Rouergue" or "of Gévaudan")
(– 1127) was the daughter of Gilbert I of Gévaudan and Gerberga of Provence and wife of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona.
In 1112, she inherited the county of Provence through her mother.
She married Ramon Berenguer at Arles on 3 February that year.
In 1113, Douce ceded her rights in Provence, Gévaudan, and the viscounty of Millau to her husband.
According to a once prevailing opinion, "Provençal troubadours ... entered Catalonia at the time" and even the Catalan language was imported from Provence.
According to nationalist historians it was the beginning of "l'engrandiment occitànic" (the Occitan aggrandisement): a great scheme to unite various lands on both sides of the Pyrenees.
In reality the marriage gave the House of Barcelona extensive interests in Occitania and put it in conflict with the Counts of Toulouse, with whom a partition of Provence was signed in 1125, shortly before Douce's death.
Her death inaugurated a period of instability in Provence.
A cadet branch of the House of Barcelona was set up to rule, but a disputed succession opened up the Baussenque Wars (1144–1162), which terminated in Provençal victory.
Her children with Ramon Berenguer were:
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Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence
Berengar Raymond  (1115–1144) was the count of Provence (1131–1144).
He was the younger son of Raymond Berengar III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence.
While his older brother Raymond Berengar received Barcelona (his father's inheritance), he received Provence (his mother's).
He married Beatrice, heiress of Melgueil.
His reign was occupied in wars with the family of Baux, which claimed the throne.
He also took an offensive against Genoa, but died at Melgueil in 1144.
His son Raymond Berengar succeeded him in Provence, but Melgueil went to Beatrice' second husband, Bernard V Pelet, and their daughter Ermessende of Pelet.

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