Maud of Apulia

WIKI: - (IT) Matilde d'Altavilla - (ES) Mafalda de Apulia - (FR) Mahaut de Pouille - (EN) Maud of Apulia

Matilde, in Catalonia called Mafalda (Mahalta)[1].

• Mafalda in catalan, spanish, aragonese, portuguese and galician.
• Mahault in french.

By marriage:

1. was Countess of Barcelona, Girona, Osona and Carcassonne from 1078 to 1082
2. and then Viscountess of Narbonne, from about 1086 to 1106 around 1106, widowed for the second time, she returned to the county of Barcelona and most likely died in Girona. Was buried in the cathedral of this city, near her first husband [1].

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- http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SICILY.htm#RobertGuiscarddied1085B

3. MATHILDE of Apulia ([1059]-after 6 Jun 1112, bur Girona). The Gestis Comitum Barcinonensium record that "Raimundus-Berengarii filius [Raimundi-Berengarii]" married "filiam…Rotberti Guiscardi Ducis Apuliæ et Messinæ"[324]. Mathilde was the oldest daughter of Robert "Guiscard" according to William of Apulia[325]. The Alexeiad records that Robert "Guiscard" betrothed "one daughter to Raymond, son of the Count Barcinon" but does not name her[326]. Her parentage is confirmed by the Vita Sancti Ollegarii which names her son “Raymundum comitem Barchinonensem filium filiæ Roberti Guisardi principis Apuliæ”[327]. She was known as MAHALTA in Catalonia. She was strongly supported by Guillem Ramón Seneschal of Catalonia and his brothers after the murder of her first husband. Her second marriage is deduced from the testament of her son by her first marriage "Raimundus Berengarii…Barchinonensis comes et marchio", dated [8 Jul] 1130, which appoints "Aimericum fratrem meum" as one of the testator's manumissores[328]. "Aimericus…vicecomes Narbone…et uxor mea Mealtis…et filiorum eius" donated property to the abbey of Saint-Martial on leaving for the Holy Land, by charter dated [1100/01][329]. A charter dated 7 Feb 1102 names "domini Haymerici vicecomitis Narbonensis et uxoris eius…Matta filiorumque eorum…Aymericus, Giscardus et Bernardus"[330]. "Aymericus…vicecomes Narbonensis…cum uxore mea…Mahalda et filiis nostris…Aymericus, Guiscardus et Bernardus Raymundi" donated property to Saint-Pons de Thomières for "Berengarii filii nostri" on his becoming a monk at the monastery by charter dated 29 Apr 1103[331]. Ramon Berenguer and his mother Mahalta issued a charter dated 6 Jun 1112[332].

• m firstly (1078) RAMÓN BERENGUER II "Cabeza le Estopa/Cap d'Estopes" Conde de Barcelona, "Cabeza le Estopa/Cap d'Estopes" son of RAMÓN BERENGUER I "el Viejo" Conde de Barcelona & his third wife Almodis de La Marche ([1055]-murdered Perxa de Astor, near Girona 6 Dec 1082).
• m secondly (1085[333]%29 AIMERY [I] Vicomte de Narbonne, son of BERNARD Vicomte de Narbonne & his wife Fides [Foi] de Rouergue (-[1105/06]).