Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona

Ramon Berenguer III the Great (1082–1131) was count of Barcelona from 1086, at first under his uncle Berenguer Ramon II and ruling alone from 1097. In 1102 he counter-attacked the Almoravids but was defeated at Mollerussa.

He absorbed Besalú in 1111 and Cerdanya in 1117, and by marrying Douce, heiress of Provence, in 1112 carried Catalan power east as far as Nice. With a Pisan fleet he raided Muslim Mallorca in 1114 and 1115 and freed Christian captives.

In 1116 he sought papal support for a crusade to Tarragona, which he retook and rebuilt by 1118 as the seat of Catalonia's restored archbishopric. He died in 1131, leaving Barcelona to his son Ramon Berenguer IV and Provence to Berenguer Ramon.