Almodis de la Marche
Almodis de la Marche (* 1020 - † October 16, 1071 ) was the daughter of Bernhard I , Count of La Marche , and Amelia de Rasès .
She married Hugo V von Lusignan around 1038 , with whom she had two sons and a daughter:
- Hugo VI. by Lusignan (* around 1039; † 1102)
- Jordan of Lusignan
- Melisende von Lusignan ∞ before 1074 Simon I, Vice Count of Parthenay
Hugo's marriage with Almodis was dissolved because they were too closely related by blood. Hugo arranged for his wife to remarry to Pons , Count of Toulouse . Almodis had several children with him:
- William IV , Count of Toulouse , † 1094
- Raimund von Saint-Gilles , † 1105, Count of Toulouse and Count of Tripoli
- Hugo, attested in 1063
- Almodis, attested in 1079/1132, later wife of Peter, Count of Melgueil , † after 1085
In April 1053 she was still Pons' wife, a short time later she was kidnapped by Raimund Berengar I , Count of Barcelona with the help of the fleet of a Muslim ally, the Emir of Tortosa , who took her prisoner during a stay in Narbonne . Raimund Berengar married her immediately, even though he and she were already married. The following year the couple was mentioned in a document with their twin sons. Pope Viktor II excommunicated Almodis and Raimund Berengar in 1056 because of this marriage. The couple had four children:
- Raimund Berengar II. , Count of Barcelona 1076-1082
- Berengar Raimund II , Count of Barcelona 1082-1096
- Inés, the future wife of Guigues III. , first Count of Viennois ( House of Albon )
- Sancha, later wife of Wilhelm Raimund , Count of Cerdanya
Despite the circumstances, Almodis kept in touch with her children as well as her former husbands. In 1066/67 she traveled to Toulouse for the wedding of her daughter Almodis. A few years earlier, in 1060, Hugo V of Lusignan had risen against his liege lord, William VIII , Duke of Aquitaine , to support Almodis' son from her second marriage, William IV of Toulouse.
Her third husband had a son and heir, Peter Raimund ( Pere Ramon ) from a previous marriage . The latter distrusted Almodi's influence on his father and was convinced that she was trying to oust him in favor of her own sons. For these reasons, he eventually murdered her. For this act Peter Raimund was disinherited and banished from Catalonia.
literature
- A. Richard (Ed.): Chronicle of the Saint-Maixent Abbey .
- BF Reilly: The Conquest of Christian and Muslim Spain. 1992
Footnotes
- ^ So in en: Almodis de la Marche and European Family Tables II (1984), T. 69, in fr: Almodis de la Marche is November 1, 1071, in the European Family Tables III.4 (1984) T. 763 only, that she died before 1077/78
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Almodis de la Marche |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Countess of La Marche |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1020 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1071 |