Aimery I of Narbonne, son of Bernard Berenger of Narbonne and Foy of Rouergue. He was

viscount of Narbonne The viscount of Narbonne was the secular ruler of Narbonne in the Middle Ages. Narbonne had been the capital of the Visigoth province of Septimania, until the 8th century, after which it became the Carolingian Viscounty of Narbonne. Narbonne was nom ...

1071 until his death in the Holy Land in 1106.

Biography

Quite young when his father Viscount Bernard died, the first years of Aymeri take place in the shadow of his uncle, Pierre Bérenger, who asserted his hold on

Narbonne Narbonne (, also , ; oc, Narbona ; la, Narbo ; Late Latin:) is a commune in France, commune in Southern France in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region. It lies from Paris in the Aude Departments of Franc ...

both as viscount and as

archbishop of Narbonne The former Catholic diocese of Narbonne existed from early Christian times until the French Revolution. It was an archdiocese, with its see at Narbonne, from the year 445, and its influence ran over much of south-western France and into Cataloni ...

, despite the opposition of the pope and his legates. The government of Aymeri is especially marked by its clashes with the archbishops Dalmace of Narbonne and Bertrand of Montredon for the control of Narbonne. According to a missing charter referred to in later documents, in 1093 Aymeri I authorized a group of Benedictine monks to settle in the forest of Fontfroide, a modest starting point for what would later become the one of the most powerful monasteries in the region, Cistercian Abbey of Fontfroide. Leaving for the Holy Land around 1103, Viscount Aymeri I died soon after. His eldest son Aymeri II succeeded him.

Marriage and descent

Between 1085 and 1087, he married Mahaut of Apulia, daughter of

Robert Guiscard Robert Guiscard (; Modern ; – 17 July 1085) was a Norman adventurer remembered for the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy, went on to become count and then duke of Apulia and Calabri ...

, duke of Apulia. They had: *

Aimery II Aimeric or Aymeric or Aimery (from '' Haimirich'' or ''Amalric'') is a male given name: * Aimeric de Belenoi (fl. 1215–1242), troubadour * Prince Aymeric of Belgium (born 2005) * Aymeric Jaubert de Barrault (died 1613), mayor of Bordeaux. * A ...

(died in 1134), viscount of Narbonne, his successor * Bernard, also says Bernard Raimond (attested in 1103) * Guiscard (attested in 1103) * Bérenger (died in 1162), first monk at the abbey of Saint-Pons-de-Thomières (1103), and then abbot de Lagrasse (1114 / 1117-1156) and Archbishop of Narbonne (1156-1162)

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* * *{{cite journal , title=La maison vicomtale de Narbonne aux Xe et XIe siècles , first=Thierry , last=Stasser , journal=Annales du Midi , year=1993 , volume=105 , issue=204 , pages=489–507 , doi=10.3406/anami.1993.2383 , language=French 11th-century births 1106 deaths Viscounts of Narbonne 11th-century French people 12th-century French people