HAUTE, Countess Almodis de La

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• Name	HAUTE, Almodis de La
  Prefix	Countess
  Birth	1013	Toulouse, Jura, France
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Nov 1071
  Death	16 Nov 1071
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  Father	MARCHE, Comte Bernard I ,   b. 970, Toulouse, Jura, France Toulouse, Jura, Franced. 16 Jun 1047 (Age 77 years)
  Mother	AUBIGNY, Countess Amelie ,   b. 974, Toulouse, Jura, France Toulouse, Jura, France
  Family ID	F15285	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	ARLES, Count Guillaume III ,   b. 996, Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, Franced. DECEASED
  Marriage	1021	Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France   [2]
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France.
  Family ID	F15281	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	LUSIGNAN, Hugues de V ,   b. 1015, Lusignan, Vienne-en-Arthies, Val-D'Oise, France Lusignan, Vienne-en-Arthies, Val-D'Oise, Franced. 8 Oct 1060, Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	1038	Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France   [3]
  Children	+ 1. SIR, Hugh Le Diable VI ,   b. 1039, Lusignan, Vienne-en-Arthies, Val-D'Oise, France Lusignan, Vienne-en-Arthies, Val-D'Oise, Franced. 1110, France (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F15282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 3	TOULOUSE, Count Pons III ,   b. 990, Toulouse, Jura, France Toulouse, Jura, Franced. 1060, Toulouse, Jura, France (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	1053
  Children	+ 1. TOULOUSE, Count Guillaume IV ,   b. 1040, Toulouse, Jura, France Toulouse, Jura, Franced. 1093, Palestine, Jerusalem (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F15283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 4	BERENGUER, Count Ramón I ,   b. Apr 1023, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Barcelona, Catalonia, Spaind. 26 May 1076, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	1056	Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France   [4]
  Children	+ 1. BARCELONA, Count Raimund Berenger II ,   b. 1055, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Barcelona, Catalonia, Spaind. 5 Dec 1082, Sant Feliu de Buixalleu, Girona, Catalonia, Spain (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F15284	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Murdered. SURNAME: Also shown as Haute Marche BIRTH: Also shown as Born Abt 1000 GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Almodis AFN: Merged with a record that used the AFN 9HM8-ZD BIRTH: Also shown as Born Abt 1015 Countess of Barcelona. She was murdered. BIO: murdered by her step-son Peter Raimond of Barcelona. ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ANGOULEME.htm#AlmodislMarchedied11171129 ALMODIS de la Marche (-murdered 16 Oct 1071). The Chronicle of Saint-Maxence records the marriage of "Almodim…sororem Audeberti comitis de Marcha" and "Pontius comes Tolosanus", specifying that she was previously the wife of "Hugo Pius de Liziniaco" from whom she was separated for consanguinity and that afterwards she married "Raimundo Barcinonensi"[70]. "Poncius Tolosanus urbis comes" recorded the union of the abbey of Moissac with the abbey of Cluny, with the advice of "uxoris meæ Adalmodis comitissæ", by charter dated 29 Jun 1053[71]. "Raimundum Berengarium comitem Barchinonensium et Adalmus cometissa et filios nostros Raimundum et Berengarium et Arnaldum Petri" donated property to the monastery of Barberà by charter dated 25 Mar 1054 (although the document must be misdated considering the date of the donor’s third marriage)[72]. "Raimundus comes et uxor mea Almodis" donated "ecclesias sancte Marie vel sancti Honorati" [in Barcelona?] to Lérins by charter dated 2 Jan 1068, signed by "Petri filii eius, Raimundi filii eius, Berengarii filii eius, Agnelus filius eius…"[73]. The necrology of San Cucufate records the death 17 Nov of "la condesa doña Almodis"[74]. The Gesta Comitum Barcinonensium records that "Petrus Raimundi" murdered his stepmother "Adalmoyn"[75]. Pope Gregory VII (elected 22 Apr 1073) sent a decree of penitence (undated) to "Petro Raimundi…pro interfectione Adalmodis eius…noverce"[76]. m firstly (repudiated) HUGUES [V] "le Pieux" Sire de Lusignan, son of HUGUES [IV] "le Brun" Sire de Lusignan & his wife Auliarde de Thouars (-killed in battle Lusignan 8 Oct 1060). m secondly ([1045], repudiated before 1053) as his second wife PONS II Comte de Toulouse, son of GUILLAUME III "Taillefer" Comte de Toulouse & his second wife Emma de Provence ([991]-1060, bur Toulouse, Saint-Sernin). m thirdly (1053, after 23 Jun) as his third wife, RAMÓN BERENGUER "el Viejo" Conde de Barcelona, son of BERENGUER RAMÓN "el Curvo" Conde de Barcelona & his second wife Sancha Sánchez de Castilla (1023-26 May 1076). ** from Wikipedia listing for Almodis de la Marche, as of 11/3/2014 Almodis de la Marche (c. 1020 – 16 October 1071) was the daughter of Bernard I, Count of Marche and wife Amélie. She married Hugh V of Lusignan around 1038 and they had two sons and one daughter: Hugh VI of Lusignan (c. 1039–1101) Jordan de Lusignan Mélisende de Lusignan (b. bef. 1055), married before 1074 to Simon I "l'Archevêque", Vidame de Parthenay Almodis and Hugh of Lusignan divorced due to consanguinity, and Hugh arranged for her to marry Count Pons of Toulouse in 1040. Together they produced several children, including: William IV of Toulouse Raymond IV of Toulouse Hugh, Abbot of Saint-Gilles Almodis of Toulouse, married Count Pierre of Melgueil She was still Pons' wife in April 1053, but shortly thereafter Almodis was abducted by Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona. He kidnapped her from Narbonne with the aid of a fleet sent north by his ally, the Muslim emir of Tortosa. They married immediately (despite the fact both of her previous husbands were still alive) and they appear with their twin sons in a charter the next year. Pope Victor II excommunicated Almodis and Ramon for this illegal marriage until 1056. Together they produced four children: Berenguer Ramon II, Count of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona Agnes of Barcelona, married Count Guigues II of Albon Sancha of Barcelona, married Count Guillermo Ramon I of Cerdagne Almodis maintained contact with her former husbands and many children, and in 1066/1067 she traveled to Toulouse for her daughter's wedding. A few years before, in 1060, Hugh V of Lusignan had revolted against his lord, Duke William VIII of Aquitaine, in support of Almodis' son William IV of Toulouse. Her sons supported one another in military campaigns; Hugh VI of Lusignan, Raymond IV of Toulouse, and Berenguer Ramon all took the Cross. Her third husband Ramon was married to her sister Rangearde de la Marche's daughter Isabela Trencavel originally,their son Pere-Ramon was his heir. Pere apparently resented Almodis' influence and was concerned she was trying to replace him with her own two sons, his consanguinous nephews, who had both his late mother's and his step-mother's claims through their Father, Count La Marche. He murdered her in October 1071. Pere was disinherited and exiled for his crime, and fled the country. When his father died in 1076, Barcelona was split between Berenguer Ramon and Ramon Berenguer, Almodis' sons. The family history of murder did not end with Pedro Ramon, as Berenguer Ramon earned his nickname "The Fratricide" when he killed his own twin brother. Sources Chronicles of the abbey of St. Maixent (pub. 1886 by A. Richard) Reilly, B. F. The Conquest of Christian and Muslim Spain, 1992 Notes Charles Julian Bishko (1968–9), "Fernando I and the Origins of the Leonese-Castilian Alliance with Cluny," Studies in Medieval Spanish Frontier History (Variorum Reprints), 40.

  
  

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  [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Almodis De LA HAUTE MARCHE; Female; Birth: About 1000 Of Toulouse, , , France; Death: 16 NOV 1071; Baptism: 02 MAR 1995 BOUNT; Endowment: 31 MAR 1995 BOUNT; Sealing to Parents: 21 APR 1995 BOUNT; Bernard I Comte MARCHE /; Father: Bernard I Comte MARCHE; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church to request LDS temple ordinances. Search performed using PAF Insight on 21 Sep 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Almodis De LA HAUTE MARCHE; Female; Birth: About 1000; Father: Bernard I Comte MARCHE; Spouse: Guillaume III Count Arles; Marriage: < 1021> ; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 21 Sep 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Almodis De la Marche; Female; Birth: About 1000; Spouse: Hugh V OR Le Debonnaire Sire; Marriage: About 1038 Of Toulouse, , , France; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 21 Sep 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Almodis De La MARCHE Countess Of BARCELONA; Female; Birth: About 1000; Spouse: Raimond Berenger II OR el Viejo BARCELONA; Marriage: 1056 Of Toulouse, , , France; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 21 Sep 2004