Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona
Noble person
1023 – 1076
Who was Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona?
Ramon Berenguer I, called 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.
Born in 1024, he succeeded his father, Berenguer Ramon I the Crooked in 1035. It was during his reign that the dominant position of Barcelona among the other Catalan counties became evident.
Ramon Berenguer campaigned against the Moors, extending his dominions as far west as Barbastro and imposing heavy tributes 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 the western Mediterranean. Ramon Berenguer the Old was also the first count of Catalonia to acquire lands and influence north of the Pyrenees.
Another major achievement of his was beginning the codification of Catalan law in the written Usatges 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, Berenguer Ramon.
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- Born
- 1023
- Parents
- Spouses
- Almodis de la Marche
(1053 - 1076)
- Almodis de la Marche
- Children
- Died
- May 26, 1076
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on July 23, 2013
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