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|birth_date  = Possibly 1066
|birth_place = [[Orange, Vaucluse]]
|death_date  = 1121
|death_place = [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]
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'''Raimbaut II, Count of Orange''' (Circa. 1066 - 1121) (in [[Latin language|Latin]] ''Raimboldus comes de Oringis'') was the elder son of {{ill|Bertrand Raimbaut of Vence|lt=Bertrand Raimbaut|fr|Bertrand-Raimbaud d'Orange}} and of his first wife Gilberte.

== Biography ==
Raimbaut's date of birth is not known (possibly around 1066 in [[Orange, Vaucluse|Orange]]). At this time this was part of the [[Kingdom of Arles]] in the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. According to two sources, [[Albert of Aix]] and [[William of Tyre]] (neither of them eyewitnesses), he joined the [[First Crusade]] in the [[army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles]], presumably setting out in 1096; his name is linked with those of [[Adhemar of Le Puy]] and [[Robert II of Flanders]], and he is said to have been present at the [[siege of Antioch]] in 1098. He remained in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] and died there, probably in 1121.

He married a certain Rixende of Apt. No sons survived him. But his daughter, [[Tiburge, Countess of Orange]], in her father's prolonged absence, was being named "countess of [[Orange, France|Orange]]" as early as 1115. She married [[William of Aumelas]], second son of [[William VI of Montpellier]]; she was still alive in 1136. Their son (Raimbaut's only grandson) was the [[troubadour]] [[Raimbaut of Orange]], and he inherited the territories of [[Aumelas]] and Orange.

A statue of Raimbaut, count of Orange, was erected in the main square at Orange in 1846.

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