Ramon Berenguer IV Marquis of Barcelona 
Ramon Berenguer IV Marquis of was born about 1113 in Barcelona, Spain. Ramon Berenguer IV Marquis of's father was Ramon Berenguer III Count of Barcelona and his mother was Dulce Aldonza of Milhaud. His paternal grandparents were Ramon Berenguer II Count of Barcelona and Maud (Matilda) de Hauteville , of Apulia; his maternal grandparents were Gerbert Vicomte de Gilbert Count of , Comte de Provence/Carlat and Gerberge of Arles. He had a sister named Berenguela of. He was the younger of the two children. He died on August 6th, 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy.General Notes
Ramon Berenguer IV, byname RAMON BERENGUER THE HOLY, Catalan RAMON BERENGUER EL SANT (b. c. 1113--d. Aug. 6, 1162, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont [Italy]), count of Barcelona from 1131 to 1162, regent of Provence from 1144 to 1157, and ruling prince of Aragon from 1137 to 1162.
The elder son of Ramon Berenguer III, he continued his father's crusading wars against the Spanish Muslims. The kingdom of Aragon soon sought Ramon Berenguer IV's aid against Castile. In the course of their negotiations, he was promised the hand of the Aragonese king Ramiro II's daughter and heir, Petronila (Peronella); they were married on Aug. 11, 1137, and a few months later (November 13), Ramiro II abdicated in favour of his daughter and son-in-law. Ramon Berenguer IV thus became the last count of Barcelona to take this as his principal title, for, from 1137, he was also ruler of Aragon (though he himself never assumed the title of king). From the reign of his son, who in 1162 succeeded him with the title of Alfonso II, the counts of Barcelona styled themselves, in the first place, kings of Aragon.
When Ramon Berenguer IV's father had died, he had left the county of Provence to a younger son. When this son died, his brother Ramon Berenguer IV acted as regent (conventionally with the title Ramon Berenguer II of Provence) until the legitimate heir, his young nephew, reached majority in 1157, as Ramon Berenguer III of Provence. When this count of Provence died in 1166 without a male heir, he was succeeded by Ramon Berenguer IV's son Alfonso II, king of Aragon. By his wars and conquests from the Moors--Tortosa (1148), Lerida, Mequinenza, and Fraga (1149), and Prades and Siurana (1153)--Ramon Berenguer IV definitively established the boundaries of the principality of Catalonia. [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.0975 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France d.1 MAR 1057/58
- 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.~ 0959 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0995 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- 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
- b.~ 1113 in Barcelona, Spain d.06 Aug 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy
- b.~ 0977 in Milhaud, Gard, Languedoc, France d.>Jul 1049 in Rodes, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
- b.~ 1003 in Rodes, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France d.< 1051 in Gevaudan, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, France
- b.~ 0985 in Bezieres, Herault, Languedoc, France d.~ 1013
- b.~ 1040 in Rodes, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France d.>12 Apr 1080 in Gevaudan, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, France
- b.~ 1000 in Narbonne, Aude, Languedoc, France d.1066
- b.~ 1020 in Narbonne, Aude, Languedoc, France
- b.~ 0981 in Bezalu, Spain
- b.~ 1060 in Carlat, Cantal, Auvergne, France d.1110 in Milhaud, Gard, Languedoc, France
- b.~ 0961 in Carlat, Cantal, Auvergne, France d.> 1020
- b.~ 1005 in Carlat, Cantal, Auvergne, France d.1071
- b.~ 0970 in Mels, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- b.~ 1041 in Carlat, Cantal, Auvergne, France
- b.~ 0961 in Lodeve, Septimania, France
- b.~ 1005 in Lodeve, Septimania, France d.> 1098
- b.~ 0970 in France
- b.1095 in Milhaud, Gard, Languedoc, France d.1128
- b.0950 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.0994 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.~ 0985 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.1018
- b.~ 0942 in Anjou, France d.1026 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.~ 1017 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.1063
- b.~ 0966 in Lombardy, Italy d.21 Sep 1026 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France
- b.0986 in Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0953 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France d.5 MAR 1004/05
- b.~ 1060 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.~ 0952 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.~ 1004
- b.~ 0978 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.1047
- b.~ 0955 in France
- b.~ 1033 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.>Sep 1095
- b.~ 0972 in Rians, Var, Provence, France
- b.~ 1000 in Rians, Var, Provence, France d.1055
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‌Ramon Berenguer IV Marquis of and Petronila I Heiress of were married in a religious ceremony in 1151. They had a son and a daughter, named Alfonso II King of and Dulcia Berenguer of.
Family Notes
Marriage
Date: 11 AUG 1137
Place: Huesca, Spain
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Children
Alfonso II King of Aragon
Alfonso II King of was born on April 4th, 1152 in Villa Mayor del Valle, Barcelona, Spain. He died at the age of 44 on April 25th, 1196 in Perpignan, Roussillon, France.
Dulcia Berenguer of Barcelona
Dulcia Berenguer of was born about 1157 in Barcelona, Spain. She died in 1198.
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