Raimond-Bérenger IV, count of Provence and of Forcalquier

Count of Provence and of Forcalquier

He is sometimes numbered "V".

Events

Date of Birth: probably 1198.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 153). Cokayne (p. 95) states that Raymond-Bérenger was aged 47 at his death, and so presumably born about 1198.

Date of Death: 19 August 1245.

Place of Death: Aix-en-Provence.

The date and place are given by Pécout (p. 267) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 153).

Place of Burial: l’église Saint-Jean-de-Malte d’Aix-en-Provence.

The place is given by Pécout (pp. 279-285) and by Cokayne (p. 95).

Relationships

Father: Alphonse II (1185 - 1209), count of Provence.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 153) and by Pécout (p. 109).

Mother: Garsinde, countess of Forcalquier.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 153) and by Pécout (pp. 111-112).

Spouse: Béatrice de Savoie (died 1265). Married December 1220.

This relationship is given by Pécout (p. 132 ff.), by Salazar y Acha (p. 153), and by Cox.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Dante, in Canto VI of his Paradiso, writes: "Quattro figlie ebbe, e ciascuna reina, Raimondo Berlinghieri...")

Marguerite de Provence (1221 - 20 December 1295) married Louis IX, king of France.

Ramón (born about 1222 - died young). 

Éléonore de Provence (about 1223 - 24 or 25 June 1291) married Henry III, king of England.

Sancha de Provence (about 1225 - 9 November 1261) married Richard, earl of Cornwall.

Beatrice de Provence (1234 - 23 September 1267), countess of Provence, married Charles de France, count of Anjou and of Maine, king of Sicily.

References

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

Cox, Eugene L. The Eagles of Savoy: The House of Savoy in Thirteenth Century Europe. (Princeton University Press, 1974).

Howell, Margaret. “Eleanor (c.1223 - 1291)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press: 2004; online edition January 2008).

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

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