Raymond (Ramon) Berengar II Towhead, Count of Barcelona^[1]

1054 - 1082  (28 years)

• Name	Raymond (Ramon) Berengar II Towhead
  Suffix	Count of Barcelona
  Birth	1053 or 1054
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	1076
  	Count of Barcelona
  	Count of Barcelona 1076-1082 He succeeded his father, Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona, as co-ruler with his twin brother, Berenguer Ramon, in 1075. The twins failed to agree and divided their possessions between them, against the will of their late father. Ramon Berenguer the Towhead, so called because of the thickness and colour of his hair, was killed while hunting in the woods in 1082. His brother, who went on to become the sole ruler of Catalonia, was credited by popular opinion of having orchestrated this murder. Berenguer Ramon the Fratricide was later succeeded by Ramon Berenguer's son, Ramon Berenguer III.
  Death	5 Dec 1082
  Notes	http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal07709 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Berenguer_II,_Count_of_Barcelona http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_Barcelona
  Person ID	I8408	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Raymond (Ramon) Berengar I the Elder, Count of Barcelona   d. 1076
  Mother	Almodis de la Marche,   b. Abt 1010   d. 16 Oct 1071 (Age ~ 61 years)
  Family ID	F3459	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mahalta (Maud) of Apulia,   b. Abt 1059   d. 1111 or 1112 (Age ~ 53 years)
  Children	1. Berengar Raymond III the Great, Count of Barcelona,   b. 1082, Rodez, , Midi-Pyrénées, France d. 1131 (Age 49 years)
  Family ID	F3458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Photos		Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
  		Counties in the Spanish March.

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).