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.
Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer I( 1023–1076), called the Old, was Count of Barcelona in 1035 – 1076.
He promulgated the earliest versions of a written code of Catalan law, the Usages of Barcelona.
Born in 1024, he succeeded his father, Berenguer Ramon I the Crooked in 1035.
It was during his reign that the dominant position of Barcelona among the other Catalan counties became evident.
Ramon Berenguer campaigned against the Moors, extending his dominions as far west as Barbastro and imposing heavy tributes(" parias") on other Moorish cities.
Historians claim that those tributes helped create the first wave of prosperity in Catalan history.
During his reign Catalan maritime power started to be felt in the western Mediterranean.
Ramon Berenguer the Old was also the first count of Catalonia to acquire lands( the counties of Carcassonne and Razés) and influence north of the Pyrenees.
Another major achievement of his was beginning the codification of Catalan law in the written" Usatges" of Barcelona which was to become the first full compilation of feudal law in Western Europe.
Legal codification was part of the count's efforts to forward and somehow control the process of feudalization which started during the reign of his weak father, Berenguer Ramon.
Another major contributor was the Church acting through the institution of the Peace and Truce of God.
This established a general truce among warring factions and lords in a given region for a given time.
The earliest extant date for introducing the Truce of God in Western Europe is 1027 in Catalonia, during the reign of his father, Berenguer Ramon.
While still married to his second wife Blanca, he became involved with the wife of the Count of Toulouse, Almodis de La Marche, countess of Limoges.
Both quickly married and were consequently excommunicated by Pope Victor II.
Ramon Berenguer
I, together with his third wife Almodis, also founded the Romanesque cathedral of Barcelona, to replace the older basilica presumably destroyed by Almanzor.
Their velvet and brass bound wooden coffins are still displayed in the Gothic cathedral which eventually replaced the cathedral that they founded.
He was succeeded by his twin sons Ramon Berenguer II and Berenguer Ramon II.
Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer II
"the Towhead" or "Cap de estopes" (1053 or 1054 – December 5, 1082) was Count of Barcelona from 1076 until his death.
He was the son of Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona and Almodis de La Marche.
The "Chronicle of San Juan de la Pena" called him, ". . .
exceeding brave and bold, kind, pleasant, pious, joyful, generous, and of an attractive appearance".
Because of the extremely thick hair he had on top of his head, he was known as Cap d'Estop."
He succeeded his father, Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona, as co-ruler with his twin brother, Berenguer Ramon, in 1075.
The twins failed to agree and divided their possessions between them, against the will of their late father.
Ramon Berenguer the Towhead, so called because of the thickness and colour of his hair, was killed while hunting in the woods in 1082.
His brother, who went on to become the sole ruler of Catalonia, was credited by popular opinion of having orchestrated this murder.
Berenguer Ramon II "the Fratricide" was later succeeded by Ramon Berenguer's son, Ramon Berenguer III.
Alfonso II of Aragon
Alfonso II( 1–25 March 1157 – 25 April 1196), called the Chaste or the Troubadour, was the King of Aragon and, as Alfons I, the Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death.
The eldest son of Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Queen Petronilla of Aragon, he was the first King of Aragon who was also Count of Barcelona.
He was also Count of Provence, which he conquered from Douce II, from 1166 until 1173, when he ceded it to his brother, Ramon Berenguer III.
His reign has been characterised by nationalistic and nostalgic Catalan historians, as" l'engrandiment occitànic" or" the Pyrenean unity": a great scheme to unite various lands on both sides of the Pyrenees under the rule of the House of Barcelona.
Miro, Count of Barcelona
Miro, Count of Barcelona( died Barcelona, 966) was count of Barcelona, Gerona and Osona from 947 to 966.
He was son of Sunifred II, Count of Urgell( Sunyer II) and his second wife, Riquilda of Tolosa.
When his father stood down in 947 he became governor jointly with his brother Borrell II, Count of Barcelona.
Borrell took charge of military and foreign affairs and Miro took charge of domestic affairs.
Miro made donations to the monasteries of San Cugat del Vallès, Sant Joan de las Abadeses i Ripoll, and during his reign it is believed that he began construction of the Rec Comtal, which took water to Barcelona.
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Almodis de la Marche
Almodis de la Marche (1020 – 16 October 1071) was a French noble.
She was famed for her marriage career, in particularly for her third marriage to Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona, with whom she committed double bigamy in 1053, for which the Pope had them excommunicated.
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 II, Count of Provence
Ramon Berenguer II( Raymond Berengar)( c. 1135 – 1166) was the count of Provence from 1144 to his death.
His uncle, Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, was the regent until 1157.
In 1144, Ramon's father, Count Berenguer Ramon, died in an offensive against Genoa and he inherited the county.
He was immediately opposed by the family of Baux and it took the military action of his uncle, the count of Barcelona, in 1147 to secure his throne.
The war with the Baux continued until the count of Barcelona's death in 1162.
In August 1161, he had travelled to Turin with his uncle obtain the confirmation of his countship in Provence from the Emperor Frederick I, for Provence was legally a fief of the Holy Roman Empire.
There he met Richeza of Poland, the daughter of the exiled Polish high duke, Ladislaus II.
He married her on 17 November and on the return journey, his uncle died.
He resumed the war with Genoa, but died trying to take Nice in the spring of 1166.
His daughter, Douce II, succeeded him, while widow Richeza was betrothed to Raymond V of Toulouse.
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.
Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer IV( c. 1114 – 6 August 1162, Anglicized Raymond Berengar IV), sometimes called the Saint, was the Count of Barcelona who brought about the union of his County of Barcelona with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the Crown of Aragon.

Question: Which country Ramon Berenguer Ii, Count Of Barcelona's mother is from?
Answer: French