nanshe-of-nina:WOMEN’S HISTORY † ALMÒDIS DE LA MARCHA (c. 1020 – 16 October 1071)Almòdis was a daugh
nanshe-of-nina:WOMEN’S HISTORY † ALMÒDIS DE LA MARCHA (c. 1020 – 16 October 1071)Almòdis was a daughter of Bernat I, comte de la Marcha and his wife, Amèlia. In 1038, she married Hugues “le Débonnaire”, seigneur de Lusignan. They had two sons, Hugues VI and Jordain and a daughter, Mélisende. Almòdis and Hugues divorced later on because of consanguinity. She then married Ponç Guilhèm, comte de Tolosa and they had at least three sons and a daughter. In 1053, however, she was abducted from Narbona by men in the employ of Ramón Berenguer I, Conde de Barcelona y Gerona. Almòdis and Ramón Berenguer married shortly after and were excommunicated by Pope Victor II for bigamy. Despite the language used, it seems that Almòdis was a willing accomplice in her own “abduction.” Outright forced marriages were not permitted by the Roman Catholic Church and were normally annulled on the grounds that both parties had to consent in order for the marriage to be valid. Almòdis and Ramón had two sons and two daughters, but she remained close to her former husbands and her other children. In 1071, however, she was murdered by her stepson, Pedro Ramón, who feared that she sought to seize his succession rights for her own sons. Pedro Ramón was disinherited and exiled for murdering his stepmother and Barcelona was divided between his half-brothers after their father’s death. Through her son, Guilhèm IV de Tolosa, Almòdis was the great-grandmother of Felipa de Tolosa, the wife of Guilhèm IX de Peitieus and the great-great-grandmother of Alienòr d'Aquitània. -- source link
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