Ramón IV Berenguer 
Ramón IV was born about 1113. Ramón IV's father was Ramón III Berenguer and his mother was Dulce Di Gievaudun. His paternal grandparents were Ramón II Berenguer and Mathilda Of Apulia; his maternal grandparents were Count Of Provence Gilbert and Gerberge Of Provence. He was an only child. He died on August 6th, 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Count Of Barcelona
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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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0972 d.25 Feb 1016-1017
- b.~ 1005
- d.1 Mar 1056-1057
- b.1023 d.27 May 1076 in Barcelona, , Spain
- b.0965 d.5 Feb 1015-1016
- b.~ 0995 d.26 Jun 1026
- b.~ 0974 d.20 May 1025
- b.1055 d.05 Dec 1082
- d.0977 in Gencay, Poitou, France
- b.~ 1010 d.1048
- b.~ 0960 d.Bet 1007 and 1011
- b.~ 1022 d.17 Nov 1075
- b.~ 0975
- b.~ 1000
- b.11 Nov 1080 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain d.19 Aug 1131
- b.~ 0985 d.1041
- b.~ 1015 in Normandy, France d.17 Jul 1085 in Cephalonia, Greece, Byzantine Empire
- b.~ 0962 in Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1027 in Fécamp, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0985
- b.~ 1058 d.Bet 1111 and 1112
- b.~ 0980 d.1031
- b.~ 1010 d.03 Jun 1052 in Murdered
- b.~ 0990 d.1027
- b.1025 d.Jul 1091
- b.~ 0980
- b.~ 0980
- b.~ 1113 d.06 Aug 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy
- b.~ 0961 d.> 1022
- b.~ 0991 d.Bet 1049 and 4051
- b.~ 0961 d.< 1013
- b.~ 1021 d.>12 Apr 1080
- b.< 0990 d.1067
- b.Mar 1065-1066
- b.~ 0991
- b.~ 1071 d.~ 1108
- b.~ 0961 d.> 1020
- b.~ 0991 d.< 1071
- b.~ 0961
- b.~ 1021 d.> 1071
- b.~ 0961
- b.~ 0991 d.> 1098
- b.~ 0961
- b.~ 1096 in Provence, France d.Bet 1127 and 1130
- b.~ 0955 d.0994 in Avignon, , Fra
- b.~ 0983 d.~May 1018
- b.~ 0942 in Anjou, France d.1026
- d.27 Apr 1051
- b.Bet 958 and 959 in Lombard, Italy d.23 Oct 1026
- b.~ 0985 d.Bet 1020 and 1023
- b.0958 in Reims, Marne, France d.5 Mar 1003-1004
- d.Bet 1111 and 1113
- b.~ 0965
- b.~ 0995
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They had a son named II.
Family Notes
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Children
II Alfonso
II was born in Villa Mayor Del Valle, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. He died on April 25th, 1196 in Perpignan, Rousillon, France.
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