Almodis de La Marche

Abt 1010 - 1071  (~ 61 years)

• Name	Almodis de La Marche  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1010  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	Abt 1020  [3]
  Death	16 Oct 1071  [2, 4]
  Person ID	I4615	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Bernard I,   b. Abt 974   d. Between 1038 and 16 Jun 1047 (Age ~ 64 years)
  Mother	Amelie,   b. Abt 985   d. 1072 (Age ~ 87 years)
  Family ID	F6384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hugh V de Lusignan,   b. Abt 1016   d. 8 Oct 1060 (Age ~ 44 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1038  [3, 5]
  Divorce	Abt 1040  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Hugh VI de Lusignan   d. Between 1106 and 1110
  Family ID	F6282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Pons II William,   b. Abt 990   d. 1060 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1040  [3]
  Divorce	Aft 1053  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Raymond IV of Toulouse   d. 28 Feb 1105, Tripoli, now in Lebanon   2. Hugh, Abbot of Saint-Gilles + 3. Almodis de Toulouse   d. Abt 1152 + 4. William IV of Toulouse,   b. Abt 1040   d. Abt 1093, Jerusalem (Age ~ 53 years)
  Family ID	F567	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

  Family 3	Ramon I Berenguer,   b. 1023   d. 26 May 1076 (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	Aft Apr 1053  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Ramon II Berenguer,   b. 1055   d. 5 Dec 1082 (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F3825	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Married Hugh V of Lusignan around 1038. After three children, he divorced her "due to consanguinity" and arranged for her to marry Pons of Toulouse. She had several children by Pons and was still married to him in 1053 when she was abducted by Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona, who kidnapped her from Narbonne with help from his ally, the Muslim emir of Tortosa. Ramon married her immediately and set about getting her with children. Pope Victor II excommunicated them both, but the writ was rescinded in 1056. From Wikipedia: Almodis maintained contact with her former husbands and many children, and in 1066/1067 she traveled to Toulouse for her daughter's wedding [Almodis, who married Count Pierre of Melgueil]. A few years before, in 1060, [her first husband] Hugh V of Lusignan had revolted against his lord, Duke William VIII of Aquitaine, in support of Almodis' son [by her second husband] William IV of Toulouse.* Her sons supported one another in military campaigns; Hugh VI of Lusignan [by her first husband], Raymond IV of Toulouse [by her second], and Berenguer Ramon [by her third] all took the Cross. ***** She was murdered in October 1071 by one Pere-Ramon who had been Ramon Berenguer's heir before Ramon married her. Wikipedia: "He was disinherited and exiled for his crime, and fled the country. When his father died in 1076, Barcelona was split between Berenguer Ramon and Ramon Berenguer, Almodis' sons. The family history of murder did not end with Pedro Ramon, as Berenguer Ramon earned his nickname 'The Fratricide' when he killed his own twin brother." ***** * See her first husband Hugh V's entry: she seems to have persuaded him to enter the fray on behalf of her son by husband #2, and he lost his life by so doing.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S160] Wikipedia. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year only. [S380] French-language Wikipedia.