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Birth:          1023 of Barcelona
Death:          26 May 1076 Barcelona

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Berenguer_I,_Count_of_Barcelona
Ramon Berenguer I (1023–1076), called the Old (Catalan: el Vell, French: le Vieux), 
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 I the Crooked in 1035.[2] It 
was during his reign that the dominant position of Barcelona among the 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.[2] 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 the western 
Mediterranean. Ramon Berenguer the Old was also the first count of Catalonia to 
acquire lands (the counties of Carcassonne and Razés) and influence north of the 
Pyrenees.[2]

Another major achievement of his was beginning the codification of Catalan law in the 
written Usatges 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, Berenguer Ramon. Another major contributor was the Church acting 
through the institution of the Peace and Truce 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 Truce of God in Western Europe is 1027 in Catalonia, 
during the reign of his father, Berenguer Ramon.

While still married to his second wife Blanca, he became involved with the wife of the 
Count of Toulouse, Almodis de La Marche, countess of Limoges.[3] Both quickly 
married and were consequently excommunicated by Pope Victor II.[3][4]

Ramon Berenguer I, together with his third wife Almodis, also founded the 
Romanesque cathedral of Barcelona, to replace the older basilica presumably 
destroyed by Al-Mansur. Their velvet and brass bound wooden coffins are still 
displayed in the Gothic cathedral which eventually replaced the cathedral that they 
founded.

He was succeeded by his twin sons Ramon Berenguer II and Berenguer Ramon II.

Family and issue[edit]

First wife, possibly Isabel, daughter of Count Sancho of Gascony[5] Berenguer (died 
young)
Arnau (died young)
Peter Raymundi (1050-1073?), murdered his father's third wife, Almodis, and was 
exiled

Second wife, Blanca of Narbonne, daughter of Wolf Ato Zuberoa and Ermengarda of 
Narbonne
Third wife, Almodis de La Marche, countess of Limoges Berenguer Ramon II, Count of 
Barcelona the Fratricide (1053/54-1097)
Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona the Towhead (1053/54-1082)
Agnes, married Guigues II of Albon
Sancha, married William Raymond, count of Cerdanya


Parents
BERENGER Raymond (Raimund) I "al Cuerva" (1005 - 26 May 1035)
SANCHEZ DE CASTILE Sancha (ABT 1006 - 26 Jun 1026)

Siblings
BERENGER Raymond (Raimund) I "el Viejo" (1023 - 26 May 1076)

Marriage To DE LA HAUTE MARCHE Almodis (Almode) (ABT 1025 - 16 Oct 1071)
    m. 1053 3rd

Notes

Parents
DE LA HAUTE MARCHE Bernard I ( 974 - 1047)
D'AUNAY Amelie (Amelia) (ABT  990 - )

Children by DE LA HAUTE MARCHE Almodis (Almode) ABT 1025 - 16 Oct 1071
BERENGER Raymond (Raimund) II (III) "Cabeza de Estope" (ABT 1053 - 5 Dec 1082)

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