Raymond II (bishop of Palencia)

Raymond II (died 1183), called Raimundo de Minerva, was a Catalan churchman and the bishop of Palencia in the kingdom of Castile from 1148.

King Sancho III of Castile refers to him as his avunculus (uncle), implying that he was a brother of the Empress Berengaria, a fellow Catalan.

This division caused the region around Palencia, the Tierra de Campos, in western Castile to become a disputed zone.

Into this context, Pope Alexander III sent a letter Raymond castigating him for "seeking the company of knights more than was appropriate for a man in such a high post".

[1] Raymond was loyal to Sancho III and, after the latter's death in 1158, to his young son, King Alfonso VIII.