Raymond Berengar I the Elder of Barcelona
- Born: Abt 1024
- Marriage: Almodis La Marche
- Died: 27 Mar 1076 about age 52
 General Notes:
Born: Cir 1024
Marriage: Almodis La Marche circa 1053
Died: 27 Mar 1076 at age 52
Another name for Raymond was Raimond Berenguer I el Viejo of Barcelona.
General Notes:
Raimond "den Gamle" var greve av Barcelona 1035 - 1076. Han var enda barn da han etterfulgte sin far 26.05.1035. Tre ĺr senere ble han innviet i sine rettigheter i kirken i Ausona og kalles her "Puer aegregiae indole", under formynderskap av sin farmor Ermessinde. Raimond utvidet sitt grevskap betydelig. I 1072 sammenkalte han Cortés og lot gjřre et utvalg av de gotiske og romerske lover som ble Kataloniens lovbok under navnet "Los Usatges". I 1074 gjorde han en ekspedisjon til Murcie. Han var gift 1. gang i 1039 med Elisabeth (Isabel), muligens datter til Raimund Bernard av Beziera. Hun dřde i 1050. 2. gang med Blanca som snart etter ble forskudd. ______________________________________ Ramon Berenguer I el Vell ("the Old") was Count of Barcelona in 1035-1076. He promulgated the earliest versions of a written code of Catalan law, the Usages of Barcelona. Born in 1024, he succeeded his father, Berenguer Ramon the Crooked in 1035. It is during his reign that the dominant position of Barcelona among other Catalan counties became evident. Ramon Berenguer campaigned against the Moors, extending his dominions as far west as Barbastro and imposing heavy tributes (parias) on other Moorish cities. Historians claim that those tributes helped create the first wave of prosperity in Catalan history. During his reign Catalan maritime power started to be felt in Western Mediterranean. Ramon Berenguer the Old was also the first count of Catalonia to acquire lands (counties of Carcassonne and Razés) and influence north of the Pyrenees. Another major achievement of his was beginning of codification of Catalan law in the written Usatges or Usatici of Barcelona which was to become the first full compilation of feudal law in Western Europe. Legal codification was part of the count's efforts to forward and somehow control the process of feudalization which started during the reign of his weak father, Berenger Ramon. Another major contributor was the Church acting through the institution of the Peace of God. This established a general truce among warring factions and lords in a given region for a given time. The earliest extant date for introducing the Peace of God in Western Europe is 1027 in Catalonia, during the reign of Ramon Berenguer the Old. He was succeeded by his twin sons Ramon Berenguer II and Berenguer Ramon II. Ramon Berenguers's marriages and descendants:- First wife, Isabel (or Elisabeth) of Narbonne or of Béziers - Berenguer (died young) - Arnau (died young) - Pere Ramon (1050-1073?) -> murdered his wife, Almodis, and was exiled Second wife, Blanca (origin unknown) Third wife, Almodis of La Marche, countess of Limosges - Berenguer Ramon II, Count of Barcelona the Fratricide (1053/54-1097) - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona the Towhead (1053/54-1082) - Inés -> married Hugh d'Albo - Sancha -> married Guilhem Ramon, count of Cerdanya
Noted events in his life were:
• Acceded: Count of Barcelona, 1035.
Raymond married Almodis La Marche, daughter of Bernard I of La Marche and Unknown, circa 1053. (Almodis La Marche died in Nov 1071.)
Raymond married Almodis La Marche, daughter of Bernard I of La Marche and Unknown. (Almodis La Marche died in Nov 1071.)
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