Bernard I. (La Marche)

Bernard I († before 1047) was a Count of La Marche from the House of Périgord . He was a son of Count Aldebert I of La Marche-Périgord and the Almodis of Limoges.

Because he was not of age when his father died in 997, his uncle Boson II first took over his property. After he died around 1005, Bernard was able to rule La Marche, while Périgord remained with the descendants of Bosons.

Bernard led a feud against Amalrich I of Rancon , who held his fiefdom Civray occupied. To this end, he allied himself with Duke Wilhelm V of Aquitaine and Hugo IV of Lusignan . To the latter, he recognized the claim to a quarter of the castle of Civray and also accepted the feudal oath. After Civray was liberated, Bernard was able to occupy the entire castle with the support of the population. In doing so, he made himself an enemy of Hugo IV of Lusignan, which is why he allied against him with Amalrich von Rancon. The feud was resolved with the marriage of Bernard's daughter to the heir of Lusignan.

Bernard's year of death is unknown; in 1047, his eldest son was first mentioned in a document as the Count of La Marche. He had several children with his wife Amelie:

• Aldebert II († 1088), Count of La Marche
• Odo I. (†?), Count of La Marche
• Almodis († October 16, 1071, murdered)
  • 1. ∞ with Hugo V. von Lusignan
  • 2. ∞ with Count Pons of Toulouse
  • 3. ∞ with Count Raimund Berengar I of Barcelona
• Raingarde (†?)
  • ∞ with Count Peter Raimund von Carcassonne
• Lucie († after 1090)
  • ∞ with Count Artaldo von Pallars

literature

• Sidney Painter: The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries , in: Speculum 32 (1957), pp. 30-31

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ademar von Chabannes , Chronicon III §45, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 167

predecessor	Office	successor
Boson II.	Count of La Marche around 1005 – before 1047	Aldebert II