Count of Barcelona Raymond (The Old) Berenger of Provence I 
Raymond, known as The Old, was born in 1022.1 The Old's father was Berengar Ramon Borrel and his mother was Sancha Sanchez of Castile. His paternal grandparents were Raymond Borrel III and Ermensinde de Carcassonne; his maternal grandparents were Sancho Sanchez and Urraca. He had a half-sister named Sibylle. He died at the age of 54 on May 26th, 1076.1 General Notes
Berenguer I el Vell ("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 the Crooked in 1035. It is during his reign that the dominant position of Barcelona among 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 Western Mediterranean. Ramon Berenguer the Old was also the first count of Catalonia to acquire lands (counties of Carcassonne and Raz s) and influence north of the Pyrenees.
Another major achievement of his was beginning of codification of Catalan law in the written Usatges or Usatici 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, Berenger Ramon. Another major contributor was the Church acting through the institution of the Peace 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 Peace of God in Western Europe is 1027 in Catalonia, during the reign of Ramon Berenguer the Old.
He was succeeded by his twin sons Ramon Berenguer II and Berenguer Ramon II.
Ramon Berenguers's marriages and descendants
First wife, Isabel (or Elisabeth) of Narbonne or of B ziers
* Berenguer (died young) * Arnau (died young) * Pere Ramon (1050-1073?) -> murdered his wife, Almodis, and was exiled
Second wife, Blanca (origin unknown)
Third wife, Almodis of La Marche, countess of Limosges
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0840 in Urgel, Lerida, Spain d.21 Aug 0897 in Spain
- b.0878 in Urgel, Lerida, Spain d.0951
- b.0865 in Flanders, Belgium
- b.0926 d.30 Sep 0992
- d.0937
- b.0900 d.0954
- b.0972 d.25 Feb 1017
- b.0895
- b.0921 d.0944
- b.0895 in Spain
- d.1001
- b.0904 in Narbonne, Aude, France d.0936
- b.0926 in Aquitaine, Gironde, France
- b.1005 d.1035
- b.0898 d.0957
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- b.0935 d.1019
- b.0882 d.0934
- b.0920
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- b.0975 d.01 Mar 1057
- b.0828 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.0919
- b.0870 d.0937
- b.0871 in France
- b.0929 d.1011
- b.0880
- b.1022 d.26 May 1076
- b.1006 d.26 Jun 1026
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Details of The Old's family with Almodis de la Haute Marche
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