Ramon Berenguer III Count of Barcelona 
Ramon Berenguer III Count of was born on November 11th, 1082 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Ramon Berenguer III Count of's father was Ramon Berenguer II Count of Barcelona and his mother was Maud (Matilda) de Hauteville , of Apulia. His paternal grandparents were Ramon Berenguer I Count of Barcelona and Almonde (Almodis) de la Marche; his maternal grandparents were Robert I Guiscard de Hauteville , Duke Apulia and Sigelgaita Princess of Salerno. He had a half-brother named Aimery (Almaric) II Vicomte de. He died at the age of 48 on June 19th, 1131 in Barcelona, Spain. He was buried in Count of Provence.General Notes
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 Besal˙ and, by his marriage to Douce (or DolÁa) 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 CerdaÒa 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]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0972 in Barcelona, Spain d.25 FEB 1018/19
- b.1005 in Barcelona, Spain d.26 May 1035 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.~ 0945 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France d.1012
- b.0975 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France d.1 MAR 1057/58
- b.~ 0953 in Melgueil near Montpellier, Herault, Languedoc, France d.~ 1011
- b.BET 1023 AND 1024 in Barcelona, Spain d.26 May 1076 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.~ 0965 in Castile, Spain d.5 FEB 1016/17
- b.1006 in Castille, Spain d.26 Jun 1026
- b.~ 0969 in Castile, Spain d.20 May 1025
- b.~ 1053 in Barcelona, Spain d.05 Dec 1082 in Killed on way to Gerona, probably by twin brother and co-ruler
- b.~ 0940 in Marche, Creuse, Limousin, France d.0995 in Perigord, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France
- b.~ 0970 in Marche, Creuse, Limousin, France d.Sep 1047
- b.~ 0944 in Limoges, Haute Vienne, Limousin, France
- b.~ 1015 in Marche, Creuse, Limousin, France d.16 Nov 1071 in (Murdered)
- b.~ 0965 in Aulnay de Saintonge, Poitou, France d.> 1030
- b.~ 0990 in Aulnay de Saintonge, Poitou, France d.< 1016
- b.< 0970 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- b.11 Nov 1082 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain d.19 Jun 1131 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.0995 in Normandy, France d.1041
- b.~ 1015 in Normandy, France d.17 Jul 1085 in at seige of Cephalonia, Greece
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0959 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0942 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1031 in France
- b.~ 0995 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0950 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.29 Jun 0992 in killed
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0963 in Anjou, France d.27 Jun 0992
- b.~ 1059 in Apulia, Cala, Italy d.1083
- b.0970 in Salerno, Italy d.1027
- b.~ 1010 in Salerno, Italy d.03 Jul 1052 in Murdered
- b.~ 0990 in Benevento, Italy d.1031
- b.1031 in Salerno, Italy d.27 Jul 1090
- b.~ 0985 in Tabelaria, Italy
- b.~ 1010 in Tabelaria, Italy
- b.~ 0990 in San Massimo, Italy
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Ramon Berenguer III Count of and Dulce Aldonza of were married in a religious ceremony before 1110. They had a son and a daughter, named Ramon Berenguer IV Marquis of and Berenguela of.
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Children
Berenguela of Barcelona
Berenguela of was born in 1110 in Barcelona, Aragon, Spain. She died in Palencia, Leon, Spain.
Ramon Berenguer IV Marquis of Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer IV Marquis of was born about 1113 in Barcelona, Spain. He died on August 6th, 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy.
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