Ramon III Berenguer

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• Alternate death: 19 Jul 1131, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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"The Great." Count of Barcelona.

Ramon married Dulce de Gévauden on 3 Feb 1112. Dulce (daughter of Gilbert of Gévauden and Gerberga of Provence) was born after 1092; died between 28 Nov 1127 and 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 7 Aug 1162, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy

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Called "The Holy." Count of Barcelona, Gerona, Osona, and Cerdagne.

Ramon married Petronila of Aragón, Queen of Aragón in Aug 1150 in Lleida, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Petronila (daughter of Ramiro II, King of Aragón & Navarre and Agnes of Aquitaine) was born on 29 Jun 1136 in Huesca, Aragón, Spain; died on 13 Oct 1173. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1116
• Alternate death: 31 Jan 1149, Palencia, Castile, Spain
• Alternate death: 3 Feb 1149

Berenguela married Alfonso VII, King of Leon and Castile in Nov 1128 in Saldaña, Palencia, Castilla-Leon, Spain. Alfonso (son of Raymond of Burgundy and Urraca, Queen of Galicia, Castile, Leon, and Toledo) was born on 1 Mar 1105 in Caldas de Reyes, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain; died on 21 Aug 1157 in Fresneda, Teruel, Aragón, Spain; was buried in Cathedral Santa Maria, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Comte de Provence, Vicomte de Rodez de Gevaudan.

Berenguer married Béatrix of Melgueil in 1135. Béatrix (daughter of Bernard IV of Melgueil and Guilelma de Montpellier) was born about 1120; died after 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Called "the Chaste" (el Casto); also "the Troubador." By 1162, as his paternal heritage, Count and Marquess of Barcelona, Tortosa, and Lerida, and Count of Tarragona, Gerona, and Cordagne. By 1164, as his maternal heritage, King of Aragon, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza. In 1166, by devolution, Marquess of Provence.

Christened Ramón, he was called both Ramón and Alfonso from birth. When he took the united throne of Aragon and Barcelona, he took Alfonso as his single name as a gesture to the Aragonese.

The issue of his birth year was for a time confused due to the fact that his mother's eldest son, b. 1155, was actually christened Alfonso. This prior Alfonso died in 1162.

Szabolcs de Vajay (citation details below) has his birth as in 1157, before 25 March, in "Villamayor del Valle," a place we cannot locate.

Alfonso married Sancha of Castile on 18 Jan 1174 in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. Sancha (daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Leon and Castile and Richeza of Poland) was born on 21 Sep 1154 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; died on 9 Nov 1208 in Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca, Aragón, Spain; was buried in Monastery of Nuestra Señora, Sigena, Huesca, Aragón, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dulce married Sancho I, King of Portugal in 1174. Sancho (son of Affonso I Henriques, King of Portugal and Mafalda of Savoy) was born on 11 Nov 1154 in Coimbra, Portugal; died on 26 Mar 1211 in Coimbra, Portugal; was buried in Santa Cruz de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1135

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The Desired (el Deseado).

Sancho married Blanche of Navarre, Queen of Castile on 30 Jan 1151 in Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain. Blanche (daughter of Garcia VI Ramirez, King of Navarre and Marguerite de l'Aigle, Queen of Navarre) was born in 1137; died on 12 Aug 1156; was buried in Cathedral Santa Maria la Real, Najera, La Rioja, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Urraca of Portugal in 1165. Urraca (daughter of Affonso I Henriques, King of Portugal and Mafalda of Savoy) was born about 1150; died on 16 Oct 1188 in Bamba, near Valladolid, Castile, Spain; was buried in Monastery of San Juan Bautista of the Knights of St. John, Bamba, near Valladolid, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancha married Sancho VI, King of Navarre in 1157. Sancho (son of Garcia VI Ramirez, King of Navarre and Marguerite de l'Aigle, Queen of Navarre) was born on 21 Apr 1132; died on 27 Jun 1194; was buried in Pamplona Cathedral, Pamplona, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1138

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Also called Constanza. Died in childbirth.

Constance married Louis VII, King of France on 10 Nov 1153 in Cathedral of Sant-Croix, Orléans, Loiret, France. Louis (son of Louis VI, King of France and Alix of Savoy, Queen Consort of France) was born in 1120; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Paris, France; was buried in Abbey of Notre-Dame de Barbeau, Fontaine-le-Port, Seine-et-Marne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Provence and Mauguion. Genealogics (citation details below) notes that he was murdered, but gives no further details. Wikipedia (which calls him "Ramon Berenguer II") says only that he died trying to take Nice in the war against Genoa.

Raymond married Richeza of Poland before 1 Aug 1162. Richeza (daughter of Wladislaw II, King of Poland and Agnes of Babenberg) was born about 1135; died on 16 Oct 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Jul 1178, Huesca, Aragón, Spain

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"Crowned by Pope Innocent III in Rome and declared his kingdom a feudatory of the Holy See, 1204. With other Spanish kings he took a prominent part in the victory over the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa, 16 July 1212, but lost his life supporting his brother-in-law, Raymond VI of Toulouse against the crusader Simon de Montfort, in Languedoc, at the battle of Muret." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Pedro married Marie of Montpellier on 15 Jun 1204. Marie (daughter of Guillem VIII de Montpellier and Eudokia) died on 21 Apr 1213 in Rome, Italy; was buried in St. Peter's, Rome, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 11 Sep 1209 and 30 Nov 1209, Palermo, Sicily

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Count of Provence.

Alfonso married Garsenda of Sabran in 1193. Garsenda (daughter of Rainou de Sabran dit du Cayler and Garsenda of Forcalquier) was born about 1180. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Urraca of Castile. Urraca (daughter of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura and Eleanor of England) was born between 1186 and 1187; died on 3 Nov 1220 in Coimbra, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Infanta de Portugal.

Berengaria married Valdemar II Sejr, King of Denmark between 1213 and 1214. Valdemar (son of Valdemar I den Store, King of Denmark and Sofie of Polotsk) was born on 28 Jun 1170; died on 28 Mar 1241. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 5 Oct 1214, Gutiérre Muños, Arévalo, Spain
• Alternate death: 6 Oct 1214, Gutiérre Muños, Arévalo, Spain

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Also Lord of Gascony. "Defeated by the Moorish Almohad invaders in 1195, but defeated a combined army of the kings of Leon and Navarre the same year. Won a great victory over the Moors at Navas de Tolosa, 1212." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, which gives the date of his marriage to Eleanor as September 1177, unlike other sources which date it to September 1170.]

Alfonso married Eleanor of England in Sep 1170 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Eleanor (daughter of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born on 13 Oct 1162 in Domfront, Normandy, France; died on 21 Sep 1214; was buried in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1166

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Called "el Baboso," "the Slobberer," supposedly because he was subject to fits of rage during which he foamed at the mouth. Despite this, he is also notable for having founded the University of Salamanca and for convening what was arguably the first parliament in Western Europe that included representatives of the urban bourgeoisie. Our theory is that he was a marooned time-traveler from the future: if you found yourself stuck in twelfth-century Spain, you'd foam at the mouth once in a while too.

From Wikipedia:

In spite of the democratic precedent represented by the Cortes and the founding of the University of Salamanca, Alfonso is often chiefly remembered for the difficulties his successive marriages caused between him with Pope Celestine III. He was first married in 1191 to his first cousin, Theresa of Portugal, who bore him two daughters, and a son who died young. The marriage was declared null by the papal legate Cardinal Gregory for consanguinity.

After Alfonso VIII of Castile was defeated at the Battle of Alarcos, Alfonso IX invaded Castile with the aid of Muslim troops. He was summarily excommunicated by Pope Celestine III. In 1197, Alfonso IX married his first cousin once removed, Berengaria of Castile, to cement peace between León and Castile. For this second act of consanguinity, the king and the kingdom were placed under interdict by representatives of the Pope. In 1198, Pope Innocent III declared Alfonso and Berengaria's marriage invalid, but they stayed together until 1204. The annulment of this marriage by the pope drove the younger Alfonso to again attack his cousin in 1204, but treaties made in 1205, 1207, and 1209 each forced him to concede further territories and rights. The treaty in 1207 is the first existing public document in the Castilian dialect.

The Pope was, however, compelled to modify his measures by the threat that, if the people could not obtain the services of religion, they would not support the clergy, and that heresy would spread. The king was left under interdict personally, but to that he showed himself indifferent, and he had the support of his clergy. Berengaria left him after the birth of five children, and the king then returned to Theresa, to whose daughters he left his kingdom in his will.

Family/Spouse: Aldonza Martinez da Silva. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo before 17 Dec 1197 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. Berenguela (daughter of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura and Eleanor of England) was born about 1180; died on 8 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Castile, Spain; was buried in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Berengaria married Richard I, King of England on 12 May 1191. Richard (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born on 8 Sep 1157; died on 6 Apr 1199; was buried in Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thibaut III of Champagne. Thibaut (son of Henry I of Champagne and Marie of France) was born on 13 May 1179; died on 24 May 1201. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Henry the Young King, Titular King of England on 27 Aug 1172 in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England. Henry (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born on 28 Feb 1155; died on 11 Jun 1183 in Castle of Martel, Lot, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Béla III, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama in 1186. Béla (son of Geisa II, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama and Euphrosine of Kiev) was born about 1148; died on 18 Apr 1196. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1170
• Alternate death: Aft 18 Jul 1218

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Also Aalez; Aaliz; Aelois; Aalis; Aalaidis; Alais. Countess of Vexin.

Ancestral Roots has her as a daughter of Louis VII by his third wife Adèle of Blois (whom they call "Alix of Champagne"); Richardson's Royal Ancestry, with evidently better documentation, has her as a daughter of Louis by his second wife, Constance of Castile. But Szabolcs de Vajay's comprehensive 1989 survey of the Iberian Burgundians, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300" (in Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989) says that Constance of Castile's daughter Adelaide by Louis VII died in infancy. We're going with Richardson on the (weak) basis of his research being more recent.

Update: Peter Stewart, on SGM in October 2016, argued here, here, and here that "Alberic of Troisfontaines specified that Alix, the wife of Guillaume of Ponthieu, was the daughter of Louis VII by his Spanish second wife ('rex iste Ludovicus de prima uxore sua Alienor, quam dimisit, duas habuit filias ... De secunda quoque uxore, que fuit Hyspana, duas similiter habuit filias, primo reginam Margaretam Anglie et comitissam Aaliz, quam duxit Guilelmus comes de Pontivo')," and that there is no good reason to doubt this, particularly since if Alix had been a daughter of Louis VII's third wife, "Alix would have been (on her supposed mother's side) a third cousin of Richard, by common descent from William the Conqueror."

Stewart also argues that Alix cannot have married William II Talvas before August 1195 (rather than 1185 as stated in AR8) "because she was detained in England by Henry II for some years after the rupture in 1191 of her long betrothal to his son Richard. (She had been sent to England as Richard's promised bride in 1174.)"

Alix married William II Talvas on 20 Aug 1195 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. William (son of Jean I of Ponthieu and Beatrice Campdavaine) was born about 1171; died on 4 Oct 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]