Almodis de la Marche

Events

Date of Birth: about 1025.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Settipani. Salazar y Acha (p. 146) gives 1023.

Date of Death: 17 November 1071.

The date of Almodis’s murder is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 146).

Relationships

Father: Bernard, count of La Marche.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:684), by Salazar y Acha (p. 146), by Débax, and by Barthélemy (p. 612).

Mother: Amélie.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:684), Salazar y Acha (p. 146), and by Débax.

Spouse: Hugues “le Pieux”, lord of Lusignan.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:684), by Salazar y Acha (p. 146), and by Débax.

Spouse: Pons, count of Toulouse. Married about 1045.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:684), by Salazar y Acha (p. 146), and by Débax.

Spouse: Ramón Berenguer “el Viejo”, count of Barcelona. Married 1053.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:684), by Salazar y Acha (p. 146), and by Débax.

Children (by Hugues):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below is from Cawley.)

Hugues “le Diable” (died 1106), lord of Lusignan, married Hildegarde de Thouars.

Jourdain.

Melisende married Simon de Parthenay.

Children (by Pons):

Guillaume IV de Toulouse (died 1094), count of Toulouse, married (1) Mathilde; married (2) Emma de Mortain.

Raymond de Toulouse (died 28 February 1105), count of Toulouse, married (1) unknown; married (2) Mathilde, daughter of Roger, count of Sicily; married (3) Elvira Alfonso, illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VI, king of Castile and León.

Hugues de Toulouse.

Almodis de Toulouse married Pierre, count of Melgueil.

Children (by Ramón Berenguer):

Ramón Berenguer “Cabeza de Estopa” (about 1054 - 6 December 1082), count of Barcelona, married Mathilde di Apulia.

Berenguer Ramón (1054 - 20 June 1097), count of Barcelona.

Sancha (born about 1058) married Guillem Ramón, count of Cerdanya.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Barthélemy, Dominique. L’an mil et la paix de dieu: la France chrétienne et féodale 980-1060, (Fayard, 1999).

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Débax, Hélène. “Les comtesses de Toulouse : notices biographiques” in Annales du Midi (Année 1988: 100-182; pp. 215-234).

Pradalié, Gérard. “Les comtes de Toulouse et l’Aquitaine (IXe-XIIe siècles)”, in Annales du Midi (Année 2005: 117-249; pp. 5-23).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).

Settipani, Christian. Post of 9/4/98 to soc.genealogy.medieval.