- Source: Bernard-Roger, Count of Bigorre
Bernard Roger (c. 962 – c. 1024) was the count of Couserans, in which capacity he was lord of parts of Comminges and Foix.
Life
Bernard Roger was the son of count Roger I of Carcassonne and Adelaide de Melgueil. His elder brother, Raymond I of Carcassonne inherited the county of Carcassonne and the remaining part of the lordship of Comminges. Bernard Roger's comital status is attested in the donation to the abbey of Saint-Hilaire in 1011. During his father's lifetime, Bernard Roger married Garsenda, the heiress of the county of Bigorre.
He built the square tower of the castle at Foix in France and made it his capital, from which a town grew. He had endowed the monastery at Foix and in it he was buried when he died at the age of 72.
Marriage and issue
Bernard-Roger and Gersenda had:
Bernard II of Foix, count of Bigorre, took the County of Bigorre.
Roger I of Foix, count of Foix, became the first count of Foix, which included the castles of Castelpenent, Roquemaure, Lordat, and several within the county of Toulouse.
Peter of Foix, lord of Couserans, inherited the lordship of Couserans.
Ermesinda married King Ramiro I of Aragon
Marjorie, married Pons, Count of Toulouse
Stephanie, married García Sánchez III of Pamplona.
Notes
References
Sources
Graham-Leigh, Elaine (2005). The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. The Boydell Press.
External links
Histoire des comtes de Foix (in French)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bernard-Roger, Count of Bigorre
- Count of Foix
- Ermesinda of Bigorre
- Roger I of Carcassonne
- García Sánchez III of Pamplona
- County of Bigorre
- Viscounts of Béarn
- Gaston III, Count of Foix
- Stephanie, Queen of Navarre
- Petronilla, Countess of Bigorre
