Dolça de Gévaudun comtess de Provence

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 111:26, Raymond Berenger married Petronilla of Agaron. Raymond was Marquis of Barcelona and the son of Raymond Berenger III, count of Barcelona by his wife Dulce, heiress of Provence, daughter of Gelbert, vicomte de Carlat. 113:25, Barenguela of Barclona was the daughter of Dulce and her husand Raymond III. Berenguela married Alfonso VII, king of Castile and Leon. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Dulcia de Provence.
Dulcia was the daughter of Gilbert vicomte de Gévaudan et de Milhaud and his wife Gerberge comtessa de Provence. The Brevi Historia Comitum Provinciæ records that "Gilberto comite Provinciæ" left his widow "Tiburgia…comitissa" and "Dulcia unica filia" and notes the latter's marriage to "Raymundus-Berengarii vulgo Cap-De stoupes…dictus, Comes Barcinonæ in Catalonia" [Ex Brevi Historia Comitum Provinciæ e familia comitum Barcinonensium, RHGF XII, p. 361].

• Background Information: ¹⁶⁰
Raymond IV Berenger, born about 1113 and died 6 Aug 1162, the Marquis of Barcelonia, son of Raymond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona, by his 3rd wife, Dulce de Gevaudan, heiress of Provence, daughter of Gilbert, Count of Gevauden, vicomté de Carlet, Count of Province and Gerberga of Provence, Countess of Arles.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 111:25-26

• Web Reference: Dulce de Gévaudan.
Dulce de Gévaudan was the daughter of Gilbert I of Gévaudan and Gerberga of Provence and wife of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona. In 1112, she inherited the county of Provence through her mother. She married Ramon Berenguer at Arles on 3 February that year.

Dolça married Ramón III "el Grande" Berengar Conde de Barcelona y de Provenza, son of Ramón Berengar II "Cabeza de Estopa." Conde Barcelona and Mathilde di Apulia, in 1112.¹⁶⁰ (Ramón III "el Grande" Berengar Conde de Barcelona y de Provenza was born on 11 Nov 1080-1082, died on 19 Aug 1131 in Barcelona, Catalán ¹⁶⁰ and was buried in Santa María de Ripoll.)