County Conflent
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The county of Conflent was one of the historical " Catalan counties " that the Franks established in the Spanish mark . Their territory largely corresponded to today's Arrondissement Prades in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France ( northern Catalonia ). The main town was and is Prades ( Catalan 'Prada').
Origins
At the time of the Romans , the Conflent was a dependent Pagus ("rural district") of the city of Ruscinus (historical place south of today's Perpignan ). In the course of Christianization in the 4th century, it was assigned to the diocese of Elne / Elna.
The Conflent belonged to the County of Rasès until the second half of the 9th century . Their counts were Berà (in the years 801 to 820 also Count of Barcelona ), Àrgila , his son and Berà II , son of Àrgila. In the years 860 to 870 the Conflent was ruled by the Count Solomon of Cerdanya . The Conflent finally got its political independence when Charles the Bald first appointed Wilfried the Hairy Count of Urgell , Cerdanya and Conflent in 870 and Wilfried then transferred the Conflent to his brother Miró the Elder as an independent vice- count .
Association with the County of Cerdanya
Miró was appointed Count of Roussillon by King Ludwig the Stammler in 878 . At the same time, his brother Wilfried became Count of Barcelona and Girona . Miro initiated the founding of the well-known Abbey of Sant Miquel de Cuixà in 878 after a previous building had been destroyed by a flood. After Miró's death in 895, the county of Conflent fell back to his brother Wilfried's Cerdanya.
During the 9th century the Franconian Empire increasingly lost power, and so after the death of Wilfried the Hairy in 897 his sons were able to inherit the counties without taking the king into account. The Conflent received Miró the Younger (897-927), who was next to the Cerdanya count of Berga , Capcir and Besalú (from 920). This area stayed together for most of the 10th century.
After the abdication of Oliba Cabreta the Cerdanya (988) the counties were divided among his sons: Oliba (971-1046) received Ripoll and Berga, Wilfried II of Cerdanya (970-1050) the Cerdanya and Conflent as well as Bernard I of Besalú (988-1020) the county of Besalú. After Oliba had given up his title in 1003 and entered the Ripoll monastery founded by Wilfried , Berga was connected to the Cerdanya, and Ripoll to Besalú. Both Wilfried and Bernard had a successor. Therefore, the Cerdanya and Besalú finally separated and formed two independent counties, with Oliba Cabreta as a common root, a grandson of Wilfried the Hairy. The Conflent remained united with the County of Cerdanya.
The end of County Conflent
When the dynasty went out in 1117 with the death of Bernard Wilhelm von Cerdanya, who had remained without successor , the Cerdanya and the dependent territories passed to his cousin, Count Raimund Berengar III. from Barcelona . The name Conflent County was soon extinguished. The further history of this region is linked to the county of Barcelona .
List of the Earls of Conflent
until 870 part of the county of Rasès
- 870 to 896 Miró I the Elder
- 896 to 897 Wilfried I the Hairy
- 897 to 927 Miró II the Younger
- 927 to 966 Sunifred II. (Cerdanya)
- 966 to 988 Oliba Cabreta
- 988 to 1035 Wilfried II. (Cerdanya)
- 1035 to 1068 Raimund Wilfried
- 1068 to 1095 Wilhelm Raimund
- 1095 to 1109 Wilhelm Jordan
- 1109 to 1117 Bernard Wilhelm
from 1118 part of the county of Barcelona
See also
Web links
- Article on grec.net (English)