BERENGUER RAMON [I] "el Curvo" de Barcelona, son of RAMON BORRELL [I] Comte de Barcelona & his wife Ermesinde de Carcassonne ([1000/05]-26 May 1035, bur Santa Maria de Ripoll). The Crónica de San Juan de la Peña names "Berenguer" as the son of "Remon Burrel conte de Barchinona"[227]. His birth date is estimated from the Crónica de San Juan de la Peña which records that "Berenguer" died aged 40[228], but this may be exaggerated considering the date of his first betrothal and the fact that his mother continued to exercise her regency until the early 1020s. He succeeded his father in 1017 as Comte de Barcelona, Girona, i Ausona. The growth in power of feudal lords, and the consequent breakdown in central authority, led to a reaction to restore public order centred around the Truce of God (1027, 1033) inaugurated by the bishops of Elne and Vic[229]. "Berengarius…Marchio Comes…cum uxore mea Guillia comitissa" donated property to Barcelona Santa Eulalia by charter dated to [1028][230]. The Annales Barcinonenses record the death in 1035 of "Berengarius comes Barchinonensis"[231]. The testament of "Berengarii comiti et marchionis" dated 9 Feb 1035 names his wife, his mother and three sons[232]. The Crónica de San Juan de la Peña records the death in 1034 of "Berenguer" aged 40[233].
m firstly (betrothed 1016, Zaragoza 1021[234]) SANCHA Sánchez de Castilla, daughter of SANCHO [I] García Conde de Castilla & his wife Urraca Salvadórez ([1006/07]-26 June 1026, bur Santa Maria de Ripoll). She is named "Sancha daughter of the deceased Conde Sancho", assumed to be Sancho García Conde de Castilla, in her husband's 1025 charter[235]. Bofarull suggests that Sancha was the daughter of Sancho Duke of Gascony[236]. However, if this is correct, it is unclear why her husband would not have claimed the disputed succession to the duchy of Gascony, in her name, after the death of Duke Sancho in 1032.
m secondly ([1027]) as her first husband, GUISLA, daughter of --- (-after 1079). According to Europäische Stammtafeln[237], she was Guisla de Lluça, daughter of Sunifred [II] Señor de Lluça i Villanova & his wife Ermesenda de Balsareny. On the other hand Kerrebrouck states that the "third" wife of Berenguer Ramon [I] was "Guisle de Ampurias"[238]. The primary sources which corroborate these hypotheses have not yet been identified. "Berengarius…Marchio Comes…cum uxore mea Guillia comitissa" donated property to Barcelona Santa Eulalia by charter dated to [1028][239]. The primary source which confirms her parentage has not yet been identified. The testament of "Berengarii comiti et marchionis" dated 9 Feb 1035 names "uxorem meam Guiliam comitissam" and leaves the county of Ausona to her, while she remains unmarried, and their son "Guilelmo"[240]. She married secondly Udalard [II] Vescomte de Barcelona. Her second marriage is confirmed by a charter of her son Guillem, dated 1054, in which he names himself "filius…Guislæ feminæ…comitissa…nunc est vice comitissa propter maritum quem habuit post patris mei"[241].