Ramón Berenguer IV de Barcelona, Count of Barcelona[1, 2]
Abt 1113 - 1162 (~ 49 years)
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Name Ramón Berenguer IV de Barcelona Suffix Count of Barcelona Born Abt 1113 Rodez, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France 
Gender Male Military 1148 Tortosa, Spain [3] Seige of Tortosa Military 1149 Lérida, Spain [3] Seige of Lérida Military 1152 Miravet, Spain [3] Seige of Miravet Castle House Barcelona Died 6 Aug 1162 Borgo San Dalmazzo, Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy Buried Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, Ripoll, Catalonia, Spain 
Santa Maria de Ripoll Person ID I12213 Dickinson Last Modified 4 Dec 2017
Father Ramón Berenguer III de Barcelona, Count of Barcelona, b. 11 Nov 1082, Rodez, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France , d. 19 Jul 1131, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Age 48 years) Relationship Birth Mother Douce de Gévaudan, Ctss of Provence, b. ca. 1100, d. ca. 1130 (Age ~ 30 years) Relationship Birth Married 3 Feb 1112 Family ID F3611 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Petronilla de Aragón, Queen of Aragón, b. 1136, Huesca, Aragon, Spain , d. 15 Oct 1173, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Age 37 years) Married 11 Aug 1137 Barbastro, Huesca, Aragon, Spain - Petronilla was contracted for marriage as a child. This was part and parcel of a solution crafted to avoid the unusual will of her uncle, King Alfonso; he rather impractically left his kingdom to three religious orders. The marriage was not consummated until 1151. [4]
Children 1. Pedro de Aragón, b. 4 May 1152, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain [Birth]+ 2. Alfonso II de Aragón, King of Aragon, Count of Provence, b. Mar 1157, Huesca, Aragon, Spain , d. 25 Apr 1195, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France (Age ~ 38 years) [Birth]3. Raymond III Berenguer, Comte de Cerdanya, Provence, b. ca. 1158, d. 5 Apr 1181, Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France (Age ~ 23 years) [Birth]4. Dulcia de Aragón, Queen consort of Portugal, b. ca. 1160, d. 1 Sep 1198 (Age ~ 38 years) [Birth] 5. Sancho de Aragón, Comte de Provence, b. ca. 1161, d. 1226 (Age ~ 65 years) [Birth] Last Modified 9 Nov 2017 Family ID F3456 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - Abt 1113 - Rodez, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France 
Married - 11 Aug 1137 - Barbastro, Huesca, Aragon, Spain 
Military - Seige of Tortosa - 1148 - Tortosa, Spain 
Military - Seige of Lérida - 1149 - Lérida, Spain 
Military - Seige of Miravet Castle - 1152 - Miravet, Spain 
Died - 6 Aug 1162 - Borgo San Dalmazzo, Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy 
Buried - - Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, Ripoll, Catalonia, Spain = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Photos Royal Arms of Aragon
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Sources - [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CATALAN%20NOBILITY.htm#RamonBerenguerIVdied1162A.
- [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), "Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Berenguer_IV,_Count_of_Barcelona.
"Ramon Berenguer IV; c. 1113 6 August 1162, Anglicized Raymond Berengar IV), sometimes called the Holy, was the Count of Barcelona who brought about the union of his County of Barcelona with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the Crown of Aragon." - [S359] The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors, Dan Jones, (New York: Viking, 2017), 65.
- [S359] The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors, Dan Jones, (New York: Viking, 2017), 64.
- [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CATALAN%20NOBILITY.htm#RamonBerenguerIVdied1162A.