ID: I02135
Name: Ramon Berenguer III Count of BARCELONA 1 2
Sex: M
Birth: 11 NOV 1082 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 1
Death: 19 JUN 1131 in Barcelona, Spain 3
Burial: Count of Provence
Note: Ramon Berenguer III, byname RAMON BERENGUER THE GREAT, Catalan RAMON BERENGUER EL GRAN (b. 1082--d. 1131, Barcelona [Spain]), count of Barcelona during whose reign, (1097-1131) independent Catalonia reached the summit of its historical greatness, spreading its ships over the western Mediterranean and acquiring new lands from the southern Pyrennees to Provence. He was also known as Ramon Berenguer I of Provence.
The son of Ramon Berenguer II, he took the throne on the departure of his uncle, Berenguer Ramon II, on crusade and spent his early years fighting off Almoravid Muslims, whose armies approached the very walls of Barcelona. Thereafter, his expansionist campaigns began. In 1111 he conquered the county of Besalú and, by his marriage to Douce (or Dolça) of Provence in 1112, acquired the county of Provence. In the years 1114-15 he undertook, with the Pisans, a joint expedition against the Balearic Islands, liberating thousands of Christian slaves and destroying the Moors' piratical bases. Commerce thereafter flourished between Barcelona, Marseille, Genoa, and Pisa. The following year (1116) he sailed to Rome in an attempt to gain aid from the Italian states and to acquire a license from the Pope for his crusade in Spain, but the visit was largely unsuccessful. In 1117 he inherited the old county of Cerdaña in the Pyrenees.
On his death, Provence went to his younger son, Berenguer Ramon (as Berenguer Ramon I of Provence, reigning 1131-44); and the rest of the lands, the most important ones, went to the elder son, Ramon Berenguer IV. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97]
Father: Ramon Berenguer II Count of BARCELONA b: ABT 1053 in Barcelona, Spain
Mother: Maud (Matilda) de HAUTEVILLE , of Apulia b: ABT 1059 in Apulia, Cala, Italy
Marriage 1
Marie de VIVAR , El Cid's Daughter b: ABT 1084 in Spain
Children
 Ximene (Christina) of BARCELONA b: ABT 1108 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Marriage 2
Dulce Aldonza of MILHAUD b: 1095 in Milhaud, Gard, Languedoc, France
Children
- Berenguela of BARCELONA b: 1110 in Barcelona, Aragon, Spain
- Ramon Berenguer IV Marquis of BARCELONA b: ABT 1113 in Barcelona, Spain
Sources:
- Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on
Page: Ramon Berenguer III
- Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 111-26, 113-25
- Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on
Page: Ramon Berenguer III
Text: 1131-year only
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