Ermengarde de Carcassonne
Viscountess of Carcassonne
Ermengarde de Carcassonne (died 1099), was a French noble, ruling vassal vicomtesse of Carcassonne from 1067 [1082] to 1099. She was the daughter of Pierre Raymond de Carcassonne and Rangarde de la Marche.
Ermengarde married Raymond Bernard, with whom she had her son Bernard Ato IV. After the death of her brother, Roger III de Carcassonne, in 1067, the succession of the county was disputed between Ermengarde and Roger II de Foix. The fight lasted for many years, because the successive suzerains, the counts Ramon Berenguer I, then Ramon Berenguer II and Ramon Berenguer III also had sights on the city and tried on several occasions to seize Carcassonne. Ermengarde was not recognized viscountess until 1082, and shared the government with her son Bernard Ato.
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Dictionnaire de l’Art de Vérifier les Dates“, Achille François & Jouffroy d’Abbans; 1854
Vaissète, Joseph (1841). Histoire générale de Languedoc: avec des notes et les pièces justificatives: composée sur les auteurs et les titres originaux, et enrichie de divers monumens (in French). J.-B. Paya.
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