Raimund Berengar III. (Provence)

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Ramon Berenguer III. von Provence , or Raimund Berengar, Count of Provence , (* around 1135, † 1166 in Nice ) was Count of Provence from 1144 .

His father and predecessor was Berengar Raimund I of Provence . On November 17, 1161, he married Richeza, the widowed Queen of Castile and León , who had previously been married to Alfonso VII . She was the daughter of the Polish Duke Władysław II. Together, Richeza and Raimund had a daughter Dulcia , who succeeded him after the death of their father.

literature

  • Ursula Vones-Liebenstein: Raimund Berengar III., Count of Provence (1135–1166). In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages. 1995, part 7, col. 409.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richsa of Poland, Queen of León 1185. In: manfred-hiebl.de. www.manfred-hiebl.de, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
predecessor Office successor
Berengar Raimund I. Count of Provence
1144–1166
Dulcia II.