constable
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and .Jean Joseph Vaissete, ''Dissertation pour servir a l'histoire de Romée De Villeneuve, baron de Vence, connestable'', Bullot, 1751 /ref>
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 (; ; ) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It lies between Cagnes-sur-Mer and Antibes, at the mouth of the river Loup, ten kilometres west of ...
regent
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of Provence.
He was buried in
Nice
Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one millionDivina Commedia, by
Dante Alighieri
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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
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Romée de Villeneuve'' in
Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...
is named for him.
*The ''Collège Romée de Villeneuve'' in Villeneuve-Loubet is named for him.Collège Romée de Villeneuve /ref>