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01. Sunifred
(c810-848)
 married
Ermesende. He was the
Count of Urgell and Cerdanya from 834 to 848, and the Count of Barcelona as
well as many other Catalan and Septimanian counties from 844 to 848.
He may have been the son, or son-in-law of Bello, Count of Carcassonne.
02. Wilfred (840-897),
son of Sunifred and Ermesende, married
Guinidilda. He was called "The Hairy". He was
Count of Urgell from 870, Cerdanya from 870, Barcelona from 878, Girona from
878 as Wilfred II, Besalu from 878 and Ausona from 886. His son
inherited these Catalan counties on his death in 897.
03. Sunyer (c880-954),
son
of Wilfred and Guinidilda, married Richilda of
Toulouse, daughter of Raymond II, Count of Toulouse.
He was count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona from 911 to 947.
04. Borrell II (c927-993),
son of Sunyer and Richilda, married Letgarda
de Rouergue. He was Count of Barcelona, Girona and
Ausona from 945 and Count of Urgell from 948.
05. Ramon Borrell (972-1018),
son of Borrell and Letgarda, married Ermesinde
of Carcassonne, daughter of Roger I of Carcassonne. He
was count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona from 992. He was associated
with his father in ruling the counties from 988.
06. Berenguer Ramon 1
(1005-1035),
son of Ramon and Ermensinde, married Sancha
Sanchez, daughter of Sancho Garces, Count of Castile. He was
sometimes called "The Crooked" or "The Hunchback". He was the Count of
Barcelona, Girona, and Ausona from 1018 to his death.
07. Ramon Berenguer I
(1023-1076),
son
of Berenguer and Sancha, married Almodis de la
Marche, daughter of Count Bernard I of Marche and Amelie. He
was sometimes called "The Old." He was Count of Barcelona in
1035-1076. He promulgated the earliest versions of a written code of
Catalan law, the
Usages of
Barcelona.
08. Ramon Berenguer II
(1053-1082),
son of Ramon and Almodis, married Maud of
Apulia, daughter of Robert Guiscard and Sikelgaita, a
Lombard princess. He was sometimes called "The Towhead" or "Cap de
estopes." He was the Count of Barcelona from 1076 until his death.
The Chronicle of San Juan de la Pena called him, "...exceedingly
brave and bold, kind, pleasant, pious, joyful, generous, and of an
attractive appearance." Because of the extremely thick har he had on
top of his head, he was also known as "Cap d'Estop."
09. Ramon Berenguer III
(1082-1131),
son of Ramon and Maud, married Douce I,
Countess of Provence, daughter of Gilbert I of Gevaudan and
Gerberga, Countess of Provence. He was sometimes called "The Great"
and was the count of Barcelona, Girona, and Ausona from 1086, Besalu from
1111, Cerdanya from 1117, and count of Provence in the Holy Roman Empire,
from 1112, all until his death in Barcelonia in 1131.
10. Ramon Berenguer IV
(1113-1162),
son of Ramon and Douce married Petronilla,
Queen of Aragon, daughter of Ramiro II of Aragon and Agnes
of Aquitaine. He was sometimes called "The Saint" and was the Count of
Barcelona who brought about the union of the County of Barcelona with the
Kingdom of Aragon to form the Crown of Aragon.
11. Alfonso II of Aragon
(1157-1196)
married
Sancha of Castile in 1174,
daughter of Alfonso VII of Aragon and Richeza of Poland. He was the
first king of Aragon who was also Count of Barcelona. He was also
Count of Provence, which he conquered from Douce II, from 1166 until 1173,
when he ceded to his brother, Ramon Berenguer III.
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12. Alfonso II,
Count of Provence (c1174-1209),
son of Alfonso and Sancha married Gersenda
Sabran (1181-1209), daguther of Rainou, Lord of Caylar and
Gersenda. His father Alfonso II transferred the County of Provence
from his uncle Sancho to him in 1185.
13. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1198-1245),
son of Alfonso and Gersinde, married Beatrice
of Savoy (-c1267), daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and
Margaret of Geneva. He was a member of the House of Barcelona who
ruled as count of Provence and Forcalquier. He was the first count of
Provence to live in the county in more than one hundred years.
14. Eleanor of Provence (c1223-1291),
and Queen of England, daughter of Ramon and Beatrix married
King Henry III of England (1216-1272). She served as regent of
England during the absence of her spouse in 1253.
I descend from their son
Edmund Plantagenet (1245-1296) who married
Blanch
D'Artois (c1245-1300). |