Ermengol II (Urgell)

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Ermengol II of Urgell receives the homage from his vassal Arnau Mir de Tost. Depiction from the Liber feudorum maior , 12th century.

. Ermengol II of pilgrims ( catalan Ermengol el Pelegrí ; † 1038 / 1039 in Jerusalem ) was a Count of Urgell from the House Barcelona . He was a son of Count Ermengol I von Urgell († 1010).

During the first years of his reign Ermengol II had probably been under the tutelage of his uncle Raimund Borrell of Barcelona . Under him, the territorial expansion of the county of Urgell ( Alt Urgell ) to the south (Baix Urgell) began against the Caliphate of Cordoba ( al-Andalus ). Around the year 1033/34 he had conquered the castle of Àger ( Comarca Noguera ), with which he entrusted his follower Arnau Mir de Tost . According to medieval chronicles, Ermengol died in 1038 during a pilgrimage in Jerusalem after 28 years of reign . On the other hand, a document from the Abbey of Sant Pere von Àger from October 12, 1039 documents the sale of Artesa Castle by Ermengol II to Arnau Mir de Tost, which is why an error in the narrative chronicles regarding the year of death cannot be ruled out.

His wife Velasquita, who was also called Constança (Belaschita que vocant Constancia) , reigned for some time in Urgell for their son Ermengol III. († 1065) taken over.

literature

  • Francesc Fité Llevot, Eduard González Montardit: Arnau Mir de Tost. Un senyor de frontera al sail XI. Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gesta Comitum Barcinonensium , §12, in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 11 (1876), p. 290. Historia de la Corona de Aragón: Crónica de San Juan de la Peña: Part aragonesa , ed . by T. Ximénez de Embún y Val (1876), §29, p. 114.
  2. ↑ a b Collecció diplomàtica de Sant Pere d'Àger fins 1198 , Vol. I, ed. by R. Chesé ​​Lapeña (2011), No. 10, p. 211.

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predecessor Office successor
Ermengol I. Count of Urgell
1010-1038 / 39 		Ermengol III.
personal data
SURNAME Ermengol II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ermengol II. The pilgrim (full name); Ermengol el Pelegrí
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Urgell
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH 1038 or 1039
Place of death Jerusalem