Ramón Berenguer IV de Barcelona, prince of Aragon

Known as “el Santo”.

Count of Barcelona, Gerona, Osona and Cerdaña

Marquis of Provence

Prince of Aragon

Events

Date of Birth: about 1113.

Vones-Liebenstein and Sarasa Sánchez give about 1113.

Date of Death: 7 August 1162.

Place of Death: near Turin.

The place and date are given by Ubieto Arteta (p. 188). Sarasa Sánchez gives 6 August 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piamonte.

Place of Burial: Monasterio de Santa María de Ripoll.

The place is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 150).

Relationships

Father: Ramón Berenguer III de Barcelona.

This relationship is given by Sarasa Sánchez, by Aurell, by Salazar y Acha (p. 149), and by Pécout.

Mother: Douce de Gévaudan.

This relationship is given by Sarasa Sánchez, by Aurell, by Salazar y Acha (p. 149), and by Pécout.

Spouse: Petronila de Aragón. Affianced 11 August 1137. Married 1151.

This relationship is given by Sarasa Sánchez, by Vones-Liebenstein, by Aurell, by Salazar y Acha (p. 150), and by Pécout.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Pedro (born 4 April 1152 - died 1155).

Ramón (March 1157 - 25 April 1195), later Alfonso II “el Casto”, king of Aragon. Married Sancha, daughter of Alfonso VIII, king of Castile, Leon, and Galicia, on 18 January 1174 in Zaragoza.

Pedro (1159 - 5 April 1181), later Raymond Berenger III, count of Provence.

Dulce (about 1160 - 1 September 1198) married, in 1175, Sancho Martino de Portugal, later Sancho I “o Pobledor”, king of Portugal.

Sancho (about 1162 - 1225), count of Provence from 1181 - 1185, married (1) Ermesinda de Rocaberti; married (2) Sancha Núñez de Lara.

References

Aurell, Martin. “Du nouveau sur les comtesses catalanes (IXe-XIIe siècles)“ in Annales du Midi : revue archéologique, historique et philologique de la France méridionale Année 1997 Volume 109 Numéro 219 pp. 357-380.

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

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

Sarasa Sánchez, Esteban. “Ramón Berenguer IV” in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

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

Ubieto Arteta, Antonio. Historia de Aragón. Creación y desarrollo de la Corona de Aragón. (Zaragoza: Anúbar, 1987).

Vones-Liebenstein, Ursula. Aragon genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Online Biographies

Ramón Berenguer IV (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)