The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

of Provence · ◉ direct ancestor

Nobility

♂Raymond Berenger of Provence

Dates not yet known.

Raymond Berenger of Provence was the twenty-fourth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Eleanor of Provence (died 1291).

He is said to have been Raymond Berenger V, Count and Marquis of ProvenceW and Count of ForcalquierW. In 1232 the Emperor Friedrich IIW addressed him as his kinsman. Raymond married Beatrice of SavoyW, a daughter of Tomasso I, Count of SavoyW, Marquis in Italy. Eleanor was the couple’s second daughter and one of their co-heiresses, and on 14 January 1236, at Canterbury Cathedral, she married King Henry III of EnglandW.

Notes

Sources

Raymond’s titles, his marriage and his daughter Eleanor’s marriage are from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (2nd ed., 2011), vol. I, ENGLAND 4, p. 42, a printed genealogy of the medieval royal family and nobility. Sir Bernard Burke’s Peerage (1869) and the first edition of the Complete Peerage, vol. V (1893), under LANCASTER, also name Eleanor as a daughter and co-heiress of Raymond Berenger, Count of Provence.

The emperor’s kinsman

The emperor’s letter of 1232 is cited in Richardson’s notes to ENGLAND 3 (p. 31), from a printed collection of the emperor’s documents (vol. 4, part 1, 1854, p. 380), where Raymond is styled “kinsman” (affinis), a word for a relative by marriage.

Family time line

◉ Raymond Berenger of Provence, Count and Marquis of Provence
◉ Beatrice of Savoy, Countess of Provence
No marriage recorded
◉ Eleanor of Provence –1291

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Living at
born at Ais de Provença 1196/1200 per Catalan Wikipedia, 'Ramon Berenguer V de Provença' (raw, per Wikipedia 'Ramon Berenguer V de Provença', NO EVIDENCE YET
abt 1196 Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France on record
Title (Nobility)
Count and Marquis of Provence; Count of Forcalquier (Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, vol. I ENGLAND 3 p.25)
from a compiled source

Sources

  • Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org) - articles on medieval royal and noble ancestors, read s1409 — Living at, about this person
  • Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011) — Title (Nobility), about this person, family with Beatrice of Savoy

Borders as they stood about 1500, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.


Line of descent

Descendants

  1. Eleanor of Provence –1291
    1. Edward of England 1239–1307
      1. Joan of England 1272–1307
        1. Eleanor de Clare 1292–1337