Romée de Villeneuve, baron de Vence. Romée de Villeneuve (c. 1170 - c. 1250) was a

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and

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Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

.Jean Joseph Vaissete, ''Dissertation pour servir a l'histoire de Romée De Villeneuve, baron de Vence, connestable'', Bullot, 1751

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Biography

In 1230, he commissioned the Château de Nice. In 1230 th
Chateau de Montfort
became the property of Romee de Villeneuve. In 1234, he founded

Villeneuve-Loubet Villeneuve-Loubet (; oc, Vilanuòva e Lo Lobet; it, Villanova Lobetto) is a Communes of France, commune in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region in southeastern Fran ...

and commissioned the Château de Villeneuve-Loubet. Following the death of

Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence Ramon Berenguer IV (french: Raimond-Bérenger; 1198 – 19 August 1245) was a member of the House of Barcelona who ruled as count of Provence and Forcalquier. He was the first count of Provence to live in the county in more than one hundred years ...

, he inherited

Vence Vence (; oc, Vença) is a commune set in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France, north of Nice and Antibes. Ecclesiastical history The first known Bishop of Vence is Severu ...

, became

Beatrice of Provence Beatrice of Provence (23 September 1267), was ruling Countess of Provence and Forcalquier from 1245 until her death, as well as Countess of Anjou and Maine, Queen of Sicily and Naples by marriage to Charles I of Naples. She was the fourth and ...

's guardian and the

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of Provence. He was buried in

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

. He appears also in the

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, by

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, in Paradise, in canto VI, in the sphere of Mercury. Dante describes him as: ::"Within this very pearl shines ::the shining light of Romeo, ::whose great and noble work was poorly paid. ::But those of Provence who schemed against him ::have not had the last laugh—he takes an evil road ::to whom another's good deed seems a wrong. ::'Raymond Berenger had four daughters, ::each of them a queen, and Romeo, a man ::of little standing and a stranger, made that happen. ::'And when malicious tongues moved Raymond ::to go over accounts with this just man, ::who had rendered him seven plus five for ten, ::Romeo left there, poor in his old age. ::And, if the world knew the heart he had within ::when, crust by crust, he begged his bread, ::much as it praises him, it would praise him more." ::::—''Paradiso'', Canto VI, lines 127-142

Legacy

*The ''

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Romée de Villeneuve'' in

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

is named for him. *The ''Collège Romée de Villeneuve'' in Villeneuve-Loubet is named for him.Collège Romée de Villeneuve
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References

1170s births 1250 deaths 13th-century French people {{France-noble-stub