Raymond II de Roquefeuil

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Seigneur d'Algues. On crusade, 1252. Fought in the Reconquista, 1256-57.

Raymond married Alazie de Châteauneuf in 1259. Alazie (daughter of Guigues Meschin and Alaysette Pelet) died after 1283. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Raymond III de Roquefeuil

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Seigneur d'Algues.

Arnaud married Béatrix d'Anduze after 19 Feb 1229. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Guillemette de Montpellier in Nov 1169 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. Guillemette (daughter of Guillem VII de Montpellier and Matilda of Burgundy) died after Oct 1200. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sire de Sauve de Sommières.

Pierre married Constance de Toulouse. Constance (daughter of Raymond VI of Toulouse and Béatrix de Beziers) died after 12 May 1260. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Seignur d'Anduze.

Bertrand married Adelais de Roquefeuil. Adelais (daughter of Geoffrey de Roquefeuil) was born about 1132. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Leo van de Pas:

The first members of the Roquefeuil family appear around 900, and can be traced to the counts of Barcelona, who ascended to the throne of Aragón. In this era the family owned extensive lands in the department of Aveyron, Gard and Hérault in the Languedoc region of the south of France, and its men referred to themselves as barons de Roquefeuil and vicomtes de Creyssels. _Le Spicilège_ of Charles-Louis Montesquieu refers to a Roquefeuil who was an important figure in the time of Hugues Capet. Under a codicil of 21 February 1002, Henri de Roquefeuil founded the hospital of Notre Dame du Bonheur on the mountain of l'Espérou. In 1032 Séguin de Roquefeuil gave to the abbey of Saint-Guilhem-du-désert, diocese of Lodève, extensive lands in the counties of Lodève and the Rouergue. In 1080 Raymond de Roquefeuil made a large donation to the same abbey. This first house of Roquefeuil continued until Geoffroy de Roquefeuil, who had a daughter Adelais but no male heirs.

About 1150 Adelais married Bertrand d'Anduze, sire d'Anduze, seigneur d'Alais, son of Bernard IV d'Anduze, sire d'Anduze, de Leques, de Portes. A condition of the marriage was that the children born of it would in perpetuity carry the name and arms of Roquefeuil. Adelais and Bernard had two sons, Bernard VI and Raymond I, both of whom would have progeny. The elder son Bernard continued the line of Anduze, while the second son Raymond inherited from his mother and founded the second house of Roquefeuil.

The Anduze were a powerful dynasty established in the Cévennes. It was probably a branch of the house of the counts of Toulouse. Like the Anduze, their cousins the Roquefeuil struck their own coins in the mint works of Sommières around 1236.

The related branch of the Roccaful served the kings of Aragón and participated in the 'Reconquista' of the Spanish against the Moors.

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Sire de Montpellier & Montferrier.

Guillem married Matilda of Burgundy on 25 Sep 1157 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. Matilda (daughter of Hugh II Borel and Mathilde of Mayenne) was born about 1130; died before 29 Sep 1172. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sire d'Anduze, de Portes, de Largentière.

Bernard married Marquise. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living 1210.

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Count of Toulouse from 1194. Marquis of Provence. As Raymond IV, he was Count of Melgueil from 1173 to 1190. He was probably actually the eighth Raymond in the Toulouse line.

Raymond married Béatrix de Beziers after 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was said to have become a Cathar after the annulment.

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Sire d'Anduze, de Leques, de Portes. Also called Bernard de Saint Bonnet et de Montpezat. Living 1128.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1162

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Also called William VI, Guilhelm VI, etc. According to Wikipedia, he "succeeded his father in the lordship of Montpellier in 1121, while still a minor, under his mother's guardianship. He suppressed a revolt of the bourgeoisie in 1143 and participated in several military campaigns of the Reconquista in Spain (1134, 1146–47). He also increased the public character of the lordship in Montpellier and supported the growth of its trade."

"Guillem VI was already a widower and became a monk at Grandselve after making his will." [Peter Stewart, citation details below.]

"Bernard's eldest brother, William VI of Montpellier, became a Cistercian monk in 1149." [James Westfall Thompson, citation details below]

Guillem married Sybille de Saluzzo in Aug 1129. Sybille (daughter of Boniface del Vasto and Agnes de Vermandois) died before 11 Dec 1146. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Sibilla del Vasto. Not, Wikipedia and other sources notwithstanding, the daughter of a Catalan family, sometimes identified with the name "Mataplana."

Peter Stewart [citation details below]:

A few threads over the past year or two have discussed the parentage of Sibilla, wife of Guillem VI, seigneur of Montpellier.

Adequate proof has been set out here before that she was from Italy, daughter of Bonifacio, margrave of Vasto & Agnes de Vermandois. However, several modern genealogists & historians including Henri Vidal, Claudie Duhamel-Amado, Szabolcs de Vajay and Patrick van Kerrebrouck have wrongly stated that she was daughter of a Catalan viscount, Hugo de Mataplana.

After checking Liber instrumentorum memorialium: cartulaire des Guillems de Montpellier, edited by Alexandre Germain & Camille Chabaneau (Montpellier, 1884-1886), it seems likely to me that these authorities have copied each other's mistake in some sequence, because this false relationship is virtually precluded by the available evidence.

In his testament dated 11 December 1146 (op cit p. 182, no. 95) Guillem left the guardianship of his children and lands, under the superior custody of his mother Ermesendis de Melgueil, to his cousin ("consobrinus meus") Ponce de Mataplana.

The context makes it logical to read "consobrinus" in its literal and precise sense of maternal first cousin, as Ponce was enjoined to take care of Guillem's family and property along with his mother, but even if a looser translation (such as sister's son or father's sister's son) were allowed the word would still denote a close blood relative and not one by marriage -- it cannot mean brother-in-law (usually "cognatus", although that covers a wide range of kinship too) and Sibilla could not have been a sibling to Ponce anyway.

Another error made by Henri Vidal [in 'Les mariages dans la famille des Guillems, seigneurs de Montpellier', Revue historique de droit franc?ais et e?tranger 62 (1984)] is to make Raimond-Guillem, abbot of Aniane and bishop of Lodève, a son of Guillem VI (the third of five attributed to him).

Guillem made elaborate provisions for the descent of Montpellier in the event that any one of his children should die without issue. They were all young at the time, and allowance was made for the third son, Bernard, to become a cleric if he should wish to take holy orders or to be set up honourably if he chose not to do so. He was the only one nominated for the priesthood. There were explicitly just four sons, Guillem the elder, Guillem the younger, Bernard and Gui in that order ("IIIIor filii mei, Guillelmus major, et Guillelmus minor, et Bernardus, et Guido"), as well as three daughters whose rights followed theirs. Guillem VI was already a widower and became a monk at Grandselve after making his will, so that Raimond-Guillem of Lodève cannot have belonged to his immediate family.

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Duke of Burgundy. Regent, 1101-02.

Hugh married Mathilde of Mayenne about 1115. Mathilde (daughter of Gauthier IV and Adelina de Presles) died after 1162 in Beaune, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Matilda de Turenne.

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Sire de Roquefeuil et d'Anduze.

Bernard married Eustorge. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Toulouse. Duke of Narbonne; Marquis of Provence.

Raymond married Constance of France on 10 Aug 1154. Constance (daughter of Louis VI, King of France and Alix of Savoy, Queen Consort of France) died on 16 Aug 1176 in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Constance Capet.

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Viscount of Agde and Béziers from 1130, and Viscount of Albi, Carcassonne, and Razès from 1150.

Raymond married Saure. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sire d'Anduze, de Portes et de Leques. Menioned 1109.

Bernard married Alais de Lalest. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Dandula de Lalest.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1074
• Alternate birth: Abt 1075
• Alternate death: Bef 21 Feb 1122

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Seigneur de Montpellier.

From Wikipedia:

At the call of Pope Urban II, William took up the cross of the First Crusade under the banner of Raymond IV of Toulouse. He served notable at the capture of the small Syrian village of Ma'arrat al-Numan in 1098. After the fall of Jerusalem in 1099, William remained in the Holy Land for a while. He remained at the side of Godfrey de Bouillon and accompanied him to the siege of Antioch in December 1097. He did not return to Montpellier until 1103, bringing with him a relic of Saint Cleopas.

When William returned, he found that the Aimoin brothers to whom he had confided the administration of the lordship in his absence had usurped many seigniorial rights and that he was obligated to recognise much of their newfound authority, which diminished his own, in order to retain his position.

William participated in the army of Raymond Berengar III of Barcelona which captured Majorca from the Moors in 1114. The rest of his reign was marked by the important acquisition of nearby territories, which greatly recouped his power: Montarnaud, Cournonsec, Montferrier, Frontignan, Aumelas, Montbazin, Popian.

Guillem married Ermesenda between 1086 and 1087. Ermesenda died after 21 Feb 1122. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Ermesindis, etc. She was not, contrary to many sources, a daughter of Pierre of Melgueil and Almodis de Toulouse.

From Peter Stewart, soc.genealogy.medieval, 27 Mar 2020:

Ermensenda's husband Guillaume V of Montpellier married his daughter Guilelma to Bernard IV of Melgueil, a grandson of Pierre. Consequently, if Ermensenda had been the daughter of Pierre in question, a first-cousin marriage would have taken place in the early-12th century, which is beyond implausible.

At the time Pierre of Melgueil settled his dispute with Guillaume V of Montpellier the latter was apparently still very young — Pierre died in the late 1080s and (according to Claudie Duhamel-Amado) Guillaume V was born in 1073 or 1074. Given this, it seems likely that a marriage between Pierre's daughter and Guillaume did not last long and that in any event she was not Ermensenda, who outlived him and was the mother of his children including Guilelma married in 1120 to Bernard of Melgueil.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1130

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Also called Boniface of Saluzzo, Bonifacio de Saluces, Bonifacio di Revello, Boniface de Clavesana, etc. Margrave of Savona and Western Liguria.

Boniface married Agnes de Vermandois after 1111. Agnes (daughter of Hugues le Grand and Adèle de Vermandois) died after 1125. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Eudes Borel "the Red". Duke of Burgundy.

Odo married Sibylla of Burgundy in 1080. Sibylla (daughter of William I "The Great" of Burgundy and Stephanie) was born in 1065; died in 1101. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1103

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Also called Matilda.

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Count of Mayenne.

Gauthier married Adelina de Presles. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adeline de Beaugency. Living 1108.

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Seignur d'Anduze.

Bertrand married Adelais de Roquefeuil. Adelais (daughter of Geoffrey de Roquefeuil) was born about 1132. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Leo van de Pas:

The first members of the Roquefeuil family appear around 900, and can be traced to the counts of Barcelona, who ascended to the throne of Aragón. In this era the family owned extensive lands in the department of Aveyron, Gard and Hérault in the Languedoc region of the south of France, and its men referred to themselves as barons de Roquefeuil and vicomtes de Creyssels. _Le Spicilège_ of Charles-Louis Montesquieu refers to a Roquefeuil who was an important figure in the time of Hugues Capet. Under a codicil of 21 February 1002, Henri de Roquefeuil founded the hospital of Notre Dame du Bonheur on the mountain of l'Espérou. In 1032 Séguin de Roquefeuil gave to the abbey of Saint-Guilhem-du-désert, diocese of Lodève, extensive lands in the counties of Lodève and the Rouergue. In 1080 Raymond de Roquefeuil made a large donation to the same abbey. This first house of Roquefeuil continued until Geoffroy de Roquefeuil, who had a daughter Adelais but no male heirs.

About 1150 Adelais married Bertrand d'Anduze, sire d'Anduze, seigneur d'Alais, son of Bernard IV d'Anduze, sire d'Anduze, de Leques, de Portes. A condition of the marriage was that the children born of it would in perpetuity carry the name and arms of Roquefeuil. Adelais and Bernard had two sons, Bernard VI and Raymond I, both of whom would have progeny. The elder son Bernard continued the line of Anduze, while the second son Raymond inherited from his mother and founded the second house of Roquefeuil.

The Anduze were a powerful dynasty established in the Cévennes. It was probably a branch of the house of the counts of Toulouse. Like the Anduze, their cousins the Roquefeuil struck their own coins in the mint works of Sommières around 1236.

The related branch of the Roccaful served the kings of Aragón and participated in the 'Reconquista' of the Spanish against the Moors.

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Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence, Duke of Rouergue.

According to a Spanish chronicler two centuries later, the name "Jourdain" was because he had himself baptized in the river Jordan while on crusade.

Alfonso married Faydiva d'Uzès before 1125. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The Fat."

Louis married Alix of Savoy, Queen Consort of France in Mar 1115 in Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, France. Alix (daughter of Umberto II of Savoy and Gisela of Burgundy) was born about 1092; died on 18 Nov 1154; was buried in Abbey Church of Saint Pierre, Montmartre, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adelaide of Maurienne.

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Viscount of Nîmes of the Trencavel family from 1074 to his death.

Bernard married Cecilia of Provence in 1083. Cecilia (daughter of Bertrand of Provence and Mathilde) died in 1150. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]