Ermengol I. (Urgell)

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Ermengol I of Cordoba ( Catalan Ermengol el de Còrdova ; † June 2, 1010 near Cordoba ) was a Count of Urgell and founder of the Urgell line of the House of Barcelona .

Ermengol was the second son of the Catalan Grand Count Borrell II († 992), who had bequeathed the County of Urgell to him from his land complex, which at that time comprised the area of Alt Urgell with the main town of La Seu d'Urgell . In May 998 he traveled to Rome together with the bishop of Vic , Arnulf, and his rival Guadald to resolve the dispute over the diocese of Vic at the synod that was chaired by Pope Gregory V and Emperor Otto III. to be submitted for decision. The synod decided in favor of Bishop Arnulf. In 1001 Ermengol traveled to Rome again to enforce the union of the monasteries Saint Clemens von Codinet and Saint Andreas von Tresponts with the Bishop of Urgell , Salla, with Pope Silvester II .

After the death of Muhammad al-Mansur in 1002, Ermengol had engaged in the fight against the Moors of the Caliphate of Cordoba . In the spring of 1003 he fought at the side of Bernard I of Besalú , Wilfried II of Cerdanya and Raimund Borrell of Barcelona in the victorious battle of Torà (near Lleida ). In the same year, however, he was defeated by Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar, the son of al-Mansur, in the Battle of Albesa and was temporarily imprisoned. In 1007, Ermengol had defined the territorial boundaries of Andorra in a document issued in the monastery of Sant Serni de Tavèrnoles , which are still valid today.

In 1010 Ermengol allied with his brother Raimund Borrell and the expelled from Córdoba caliph Muhammad II al-Mahdi to fight against Sulaiman al-Mustain . The Catalan army won the battle of Aqabat al-Baqar northwest of Córdoba on June 2, 1010, and subsequently sacked the city. However, Ermengol was killed in this battle, allegedly he was beheaded by the Berber warriors who used his head as a trophy. His death near Cordoba had earned him his nickname.

Ermengol's wife was called Geriberga, which is mentioned in a document from 1001. As a widow, she and her brother-in-law made a donation to the canons of La Seu d'Urgell on November 18, 1010. Their son was Ermengol II. The Pilgrim († 1039).

literature

  • Peter C. Scales: The Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba: Berbers and Andalusis in Conflict. BRILL, 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio vol. 19, ed. by Giovanni Domenico Mansi (1774), col. 227.
  2. ↑ Viage literario á las iglesias de España vol. 10, ed. by Jaime Villanueva (1803), pp. 119-120.
  3. ↑ Aimon von Fleury, Miracula sancti Benedicti , Lib. 4, §10, ed. by Eugène de Certain (1858), pp. 188-189.
  4. ↑ Cartulari de la Vall d'Andorra, segles IX-XIII, Vol. I, ed. by Cebrià Baraut (1988), pp. 117-118.
  5. ↑ Scales, p. 194, note 40.
  6. ↑ Adémar de Chabannes, Chronique , ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), Lib. III, §38, p. 161. Adémar de Chabannes had incorrectly dated the battle to the year 1008. That year Ermengol actually wrote his will on July 28th, see Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 162, col. 973–974.
  7. ↑ Historia de la Corona de Aragón: Crónica de San Juan de la Peña: Part aragonesa , ed. by T. Ximénez de Embún y Val (1876), §27, pp. 109-110.
  8. ↑ Quoting from the list of documents of the Abbey of Ripoll: Los Condes de Barcelona Vindicados , Vol. 1, ed. by P. de Bofarull y Mascaró (1836), p. 149.
  9. ↑ Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 163, col. 974–978.

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predecessor Office successor
Borrell II. Earl of Urgell
992-1010 		Ermengol II.
personal data
SURNAME Ermengol I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ermengol I of Cordoba; Ermengol el de Còrdova; (caS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Urgell
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1010
Place of death near Cordoba