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. Events Harthacanute becomes king of Denmark. ... Events All year - People fucked each other ALOT! February 14 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. ...

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. This article is about the year. ... Events Harthacanute becomes king of Denmark. ... Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ...

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. For the terrain type, see: Heath (habitat). ... The walled city of Carcassonne Location within France Carcassonne (Carcassona in Occitan) is a fortified French city, in the Aude département, of which it is the préfecture, in the former province of Languedoc. ... Razès is a historical area in southwestern France, in todays Aude département. ...

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 and Truce 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 Truce of God in Western Europe is 1027 in Catalonia, during the reign of Ramon Berenguer the Old. For linguistic codification, see codification (linguistics). ... Feudalism comes from the Late Latin word feudum, itself borrowed from a Germanic root *fehu, a commonly used term in the Middle Ages which means fief, or land held under certain obligations by feodati. ... A church building is a building used in Christian worship. ... The Peace and Truce of God was a medieval European movement of the Roman Catholic Church which applied spiritual sanctions in order to control and stop the violence of feudal society. ... The Peace and Truce of God was a medieval European movement of the Roman Catholic Church which applied spiritual sanctions in order to control and stop the violence of feudal society. ... Western Europe is distinguished from Eastern Europe by differences of history and culture rather than by geography. ... Events March 26 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor. ...

He was succeeded by his twin sons Ramon Berenguer II and Berenguer Ramon II. His sister, Sibylle of Barcelona, married Henry of Burgundy, and would become the grandmother of Alfonso Henriques, first king of Portugal. Ramon Berenguer II the Towhead was Count of Barcelona, 1076-1082. ... Berenguer Ramon II the Fratricide was Count of Barcelona 1076-1097. ... Henry of Burgundy (1035 – ca. ... Alfonso I Henriques of Portugal (Guimarães, 1109, traditionally July 25, – 1185), also known as the Conqueror, was the first king of Portugal, declaring his independence from Leon_Castile, a deed often identifying the Condado Portucalense as the first nation_based state of Europe. ...

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 father's wife, Almodis, and was exiled
• Second wife, Blanca (origin unknown)
• Third wife, Almodis de La Marche, countess of Limoges
  • 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 Cerdagne