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Visigothic line of the House of Barcelona (Raymond IV of Gothia and Toulouse)

Clearly established Visigothic line of the founding house of Barcelona Spain.

The line traced to the Visigothic Kings, whose Kingdom comprised the area called Gothia (Septimania, Langudoc and Toulouse) of which the leader of the First Crusade, Raymond IV of Gothia used the title “Marqis of Gothia”, as of one and the same lineage and land.

In 3 Parts

1.    Line from Duke Raymond IV to Count Wilfred the hairy of Barcelona

2.    Line from Count Wilfred the Hairy of Barcelona to King Wamba

3.    Line from King Wamba of Visigothia to Alaric I

 

Kingdom of the Visigoths

The history of Langudoc: Visigoths

 

SECTION 3: Genealogy of Raymond IV to Wilfrid the Hairy of Barcelona

SECTION 2: Genealogy of Count of Barcelona, Wilfred the Hairy to king Wamba

Simplified version taken from the “Llibre dels Fets” (Book of Deeds), a chronicle written in the 14th century by King James I of Aragon. In this chronicle, King James I traces the lineage of the House of Barcelona back to King Wamba, presenting a genealogy that connects the Visigothic royal line to his own dynasty.

 

 

Wilfred the Hairy (GUIFRÉ El Pilos) was the founder of the Catalan dynasty and the count of Barcelona, Girona, Ausona, Urgell, Cerdanya, and Besalú. Virtually all historians accredit him as a Noble Goth.

 

SECTION 3: Genealogy of King Wamba (Ruled Gothia / Visigothia 672-680)

While dozens of books (as listed here https://fmg.ac/phocadownload/userupload/foundations2/JN-02-01/003Gothic.pdf ) assert these families, such as of Aragon etc are descenants of the Goths, there aren’t many great genealogical examples. However, Wamba was widely considered as the best Noble in all the Visigoth lands, and was forcibly elected when the throne was vacant. That is well recorded, as in “Historia of King Wamba” written by Julian Bishop of Toledo in 675 AD.

Anderson’s Genealogical Tables which normally are very detailed in this period, show us this was common to elect their best of their own people.  

 

Note:

The below quote from the authentic historical record of Simon de St. Bertin. This text was written, Circa 1135-7. The following is part of the entry for the year 1099, after the capture of Jerusalem and the crowning of Godfrey de Bouillon as King of Jerusalem.

“While he [Godfrey] was reigning magnificently, some had decided not to return to the shadows of the world after suffering such dangers for God’s sake. On the advice of the princes of God’s army they vowed themselves to God’s Temple under this rule: they would renounce the world, give up personal goods, free themselves to pursue purity, and lead a communal life wearing a poor habit, only using arms to defend the land against the attacks of the insurgent pagans when necessity demanded.”

There are many other authentic writings from early in the 12th Century but none allude to the actual founding of the order.

Prince Raymond IV commanded by far the largest army of Crusaders and was the most senior. He was also offered the crown of Jerusalem which he refused to be King where Christ suffered. Part of his spirit of resistance was also, that he was the only prince who refused to do homage to the emperor Alexius for their expected conquests. Therefore it seems more fitting one of the other Nobles would have finally accepted the crown which would only have been legally placed by the Emperor Alexius Commenus, the one whom they were fighting for.

In the time when Godfrey was “reigning magnificently” would have been when he was busy liberating the Orthodox areas, in a great assistance to the Byzantine Empire against the Muslims. This would have been between 1096 and no later than the time of his death in 1100. As he only was King of Jerusalem for less than one year before his death. While Raymond IV, prince of Gothia lived another six years.

Wolfenbuttel-Brunswick Commandery Knights Templar – militie templi iurisdictiones gothorum imperii https://brunswicktemplar.blogspot.com

+ 1099 Templar founder Raymond IV of Gothia made Templar oath at Jerusalem (His kinsmen were 11 Angevin Kings of Jerusalem). + 1118 Order was consecrated between hands of the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Jerusalem. + 1129 Council of Troyes Western Clergy (not Pope) formalizes the Monastical Rule of the Templar. + 1139 Papal Bull endorses the order of Templar as poor knights, authorizing exemptions that they may receive complete tithes from laymen who wish to exclude tithing to churches.