Bernard Roger (c. 962 – c. 1024 ) was the count of Couserans , in which capacity he was lord of parts of Comminges and Foix .
Life
Bernard Roger was the son of count Roger I of Carcassonne and Adelaide de Melgueil. His elder brother, Raymond I of Carcassonne inherited the county of Carcassonne and the remaining part of the lordship of Comminges. Bernard Roger's comital status is attested in the donation to the abbey of Saint-Hilaire in 1011. During his father's lifetime, Bernard Roger married Garsenda , the heiress of the county of Bigorre .
He built the square tower of the castle at Foix in France and made it his capital, from which a town grew. He had endowed the monastery at Foix and in it he was buried when he died at the age of 72.
Marriage and issue
Bernard-Roger and Gersenda had:
Bernard II of Foix, count of Bigorre , took the County of Bigorre .
Roger I of Foix, count of Foix , became the first count of Foix , which included the castles of Castelpenent , Roquemaure , Lordat , and several within the county of Toulouse .
Peter of Foix, lord of Couserans , inherited the lordship of Couserans .
Ermesinda married King Ramiro I of Aragon
Marjorie, married Pons, Count of Toulouse
Stephanie ,[ a] married García Sánchez III of Pamplona .
Notes
^ According to Elaine Graham-Leigh, Stephanie was the daughter of Bernard-Roger and Gersenda of Bigorre.
References
Sources
Graham-Leigh, Elaine (2005). The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade . The Boydell Press.
External links
Bernard-Roger, Count of Bigorre
Born: c. 962 Died: c. 1034
New division
Lord of Foix c. 1011 – c. 1034
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Count of Bigorre 1030 – c. 1034
Succeeded by
New division
Lord of Couserans c. 1011 – c. 1034
Succeeded by