Bernat
(Bernard II)
"Comte de Bigorre"
de Bigorre
formerly Bigorre
Born in Comté de Bigorre, France
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Clémence (Unknown) de Bigorre
— married
1034 (to 1063) [location unknown]
Husband of
Stephania (Unknown) de Bigorre
— married
about 1062 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Clemencia (Bigorre) de Urgel
Died about
at about age 63
in Comté de Bigorre, France
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Biography
Bernat (Occitan) / Bernard (French) (later Bernard II Comte de Bigorre) was the Count of Bigorre, a land-locked province in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain; its capital was the city of Tarbes. Today Bigorre's territory is roughly equivalent to the French departement of the Hautes-Pyrenees. He was born in 1014 and was named Count of Bigorre (Conde de Bigorre) in August 1038, on the death of his father, Bernard-Roger, Count of Carcassonne, who was also Count of Bigorre thru his wife, Countess Garsende de Bigorre, daughter of Count Arnaud Garcia & his wife, Richarde (Unknown). In the Middle Ages the Counts/Countesses of Bigorre were vassals of the Dukes of Gascony under the Dukes of Aquitaine. [1]
Bernardo II de Bigorre had 2 marriages. At 18 years old, around 1034, he married Clemence (UNKNOWN) Bigorre (abt. 1020-1063). They had 2 children:[1]
- Clemencia (Bigorre) de Urgel (abt.1035-1065)
- Raymond de Bigorre, born about 1040; succeeded his father as Count de Bigorre in 1077 and died about 1080 CE.
In about 1063, after the death of Clemence, Bernardo II remarried Stephania, whose family name and parents remain uncertain (despite earlier speculations that she was the daughter of Geoffrey I Comte de Provence; see Research Notes). [1]
Stephania and Bernat had one child together: [1]
- Beatrice I de Bigorre, born in 1064; succeeded her half brother as Countess de Bigorre in 1080 and died after 14 October 1095.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. Published by Charles Cawley and the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG) 2006-2021, including source citations and relevant texts; hosted online by FMG, accessed 2024: Comtes de Bigorre 1040-1080 (Comtes de Carcassonne. (See also WikiTree's source page for MedLands)
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see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Foix-13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard-Roger,_Count_of_Bigorre
Bernard Roger (c. 962 – c. 1034) was the count of Couserans, in which capacity he was lord of parts of Comminges and Foix.
He was the son of count Roger I of Carcassonne. 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.
He is the founder of the House of Foix which ruled that county for centuries. During his father's lifetime, he married Garsenda, or Arsinde, 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.
His lands were divided:
His eldest son, Bernard II of Foix, count of Bigorre, took the County of Bigorre. His second son, 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. His third and youngest son, Peter of Foix, lord of Couserans, inherited the lordship of Couserans. His daughter Ermesinda married King Ramiro I of Aragon