Borrell II (Barcelona)

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Borrel II. (* Around 920; † 992 ) was count of Barcelona , Girona and Osona from 947 and of Urgell from 948 .

Life

His parents were Count Sunyer I of Barcelona and Richilde von Rouergue . After his father retired to the monastery in 947, he inherited the counties of Barcelona, ​​Gerona and Ausona together with his younger brother Miro († 968), and in the following year, after the death of his uncle Sunifred II , also the county of Urgell. Since the power of the West Franconian kings in the Spanish Mark was dwindling, Borrell sought to secure himself through treaties with the Caliph of Córdoba , but this did not prevent the destruction of Barcelona by al-Mansur in 985 .

Against the threat from the Moors, Borrell had called the military help of his liege lord, King Lothar , in 985 , who, although he agreed to a campaign in the Spanish mark, died in the spring of 986 before the preparations for it. His successor Ludwig V remained inactive in this matter. Evidently Borrell had also sent a request for help to King Hugo Capet, elected in 987, who had promised a campaign to the south in a reply from the late 987, written by Archbishop Gerbert of Reims , provided Borrell sent him an embassy until Easter 988 will send his court to swear his fealty to him. Nothing is known of an embassy or a pledge of allegiance to Borrell to the new king, just as he never went on a campaign in the Spanish march. This was the last time a Catalan count had phoned the support of a Frankish king. Borrell and his successors had ruled their territories from then on, detached from the royal authority, which the young Capetian dynasty could hardly assert beyond the Loire to the south. With this, especially from the national point of view, the date of the de facto independence of Catalonia from the (west) Franconian Empire is often recognized in the year 986 , which however remained only a one-sided matter for almost 300 years. It was not until the Treaty of Corbeil of 1258 that the Franconian-French kings renounced any imperious authority over Catalonia.

In 967 Borrel II visited the monastery of St. Gerald von Aurillac , and the abbot asked him to take Gerbert d'Aurillac (the future Pope Silvester II) with him so that the young man could study mathematics in Spain. In the years that followed, Gerbert studied in the Christian-held city of Barcelona and perhaps in the Islamic cities of Cordoba and Seville . In 969 Borrel made a pilgrimage to Rome and took Gerbert with him. Gerbert met Pope John XIII there. and Emperor Otto I. The Pope convinced Otto to appoint Gerbert as a tutor for his young son, the future Emperor Otto II .

After his death he was followed by his eldest son Raimund Borrell in Barcelona, ​​the county of Urgell fell to the second son Ermengol .

family

He married Leodgard before 968 († after 980), the marriage had five children

  • Daughter († before June 6, 969)
  • Raimund Borrell , Count of Barcelona (* 971/72; † 1017) ∞ Ermesinde of Carcassonne († 1058)
  • Ermengol I. , Count of Urgell (* 973/77; † 1010) ∞ Gerberga
  • Ermengarde († after 1029) ∞ Geribert, Vice Count of Barcelona († after 1019)
  • Richilde († after 1041) ∞ Udalard, Vice Count of Barcelona († after 1030)

His second wife was Heimerud.

literature

  • Federico Udina Martorele: Borell II. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . tape 2 . dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-59057-2 , Sp. 452 .
  • Michel Zimmermann: Hugues Capet et Borrell. Speaking of the “indépendance” of the Catalogne . In: Catalunya i França meridional a l'entorn de l'any mil (1991), pp. 59-64.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federico Udina Martorele: Borell II. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters . tape 2 . dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-59057-2 , Sp. 452 .
  2. ↑ a b Medlands: Catalonia , Ch 2A Comtes de Barcelona.. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  3. ^ The collection of letters by Gerbert von Reims , ed. by Fritz Weigle in MGH Briefe d. German Kaiserzeit 2 (1966), no. 70, pp. 100-101.
  4. ^ The collection of letters by Gerbert von Reims , ed. by Fritz Weigle in MGH Briefe d. German Kaiserzeit 2 (1966), No. 112, pp. 140–141. Richer von Reims , Historiae , ed. by Hartmut Hoffmann in MGH SS 38 (2000), Libri IIII, §12, pp. 239-240.
  5. ^ Hans-Henning Kortüm: Gerbert von Aurillac . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . tape 4 . dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-59057-2 , Sp. 1300 f.- .
predecessor Office successor
Sunyer I. Count of Barcelona
947-992 		Raimund Borrell
personal data
SURNAME Borrell II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borrel II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Barcelona, ​​Gerona, Ausona and Urgell
DATE OF BIRTH around 920
DATE OF DEATH 992