Bertrand I, count of Provence

Count of Forcalquier

Events

Date of Birth: 1110.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 197).

Date of Death: 1150.

The date is given by Varano (p. 459).

Relationships

Father: Guillaume I, count of Provence.

This relationship is given by Poly (p. 34), by Salazar y Acha (p. 197), and by Pécout.

Mother: Garsende d’Albon.

This relationship is given by Poly (p. 34), by Salazar y Acha (p. 197), and by Pécout.

Spouse: Josserande de Flotte.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (pp. 323-324), by Pécout, by Salazar y Acha (p. 197), and by Poly (p. 34). Varano (p. 458) states that Josserande was a sister of Arnaud Flotte (citing an act of 1206 in which Josserande's son Guillaume II mentions Arnaud as his uncle), that this seems to have been Josserande's second marriage, and that she seems to have died between 1150 and 1152 (p. 460). Salazar y Acha (p. 197) states that Josserande was the daughter of Arnaud de la Flotte, lord of Ravel, and Adelaide de Comps.

Children:

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Joserande de Forcalquier.

Bertrand II (1150 - 1207), count of Forcalquier.

Guillaume II, count of Provence, count of Forcalquier.

Adelaida de Forcalquier married Gerardo Amic de Sabrán.

Guillaume the younger.

Cotta married Isnard de Santvicens.

References

Manteyer, Georges de. La Provence du premier au douzième siècle (Paris: 1908).

Miret i Sans, Joaquim. “La Casa condal de Urgell en Provenza” in Butlletí de la Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona (1904: Vol. 2: 9 Jan - March 1903) pp. 32-50.

Pécout, Thierry. L’invention de la Provence: Raymond Bérenger V (1209-1235) (Perrin, 2004).

Poly, Jean-Pierre. La Provence et la société féodale 879-1166 (Paris:1976).

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

Varano, Mariacristina . “Espace religieux et espace politique en pays provençal au Moyen Âge (IXeXIIIe siècles). L’exemple de Forcalquier et de sa région”. Archéologie et Préhistoire. Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I, 2011 (thesis).