Ermengol III. (Urgell)

Ermengol III. that of Barbastro ( Catalan Ermengol el de Barbastre ; * June 1032 , † 1065 in Barbastro ) was a Count of Urgell from the House of Barcelona . He was a son of Count Ermengol II of Urgell († 1038/39).

The first years of his rule Ermengol had stood under the tutelage of his mother Velasquita "Constança", who on April 4, 1048 sold the property rights to the valleys of Andorra to the diocese of Urgell in his name . According to the deed on the sale, he was fifteen years and ten months old at the time. After his personal seizure of power, he had allied himself with Count Raimund Berengar I of Barcelona against Count Raimund Wilfried von Cerdanya . In 1064 Ermengol took part in the campaign against the Moors initiated by Pope Alexander II , which historians often describe as a "pre-crusade" . After the conquest of Barbastro , he was appointed governor by King Sancho Ramírez of Aragón . When the Moors recaptured the city the following year, Ermengol was killed in battle. He was buried in the Abbey of Sant Pere von Àger.

Ermengol was successively married to Adalaiz (named 1036), Clemencia (named 1059) and Sancha of Aragón (named 1065 and 1072/73). The latter was a daughter of King Ramiro I of Aragon . The first marriage resulted in two children:

• Ermengol IV. († 1092), Count of Urgell.
• Isabella; 1. ∞ with King Sancho Ramírez of Aragón ; 2. ∞ with Count Wilhelm Raimund von Cerdanya .

literature

• Alberto Ferreiro: The siege of Barbastro 1064-1065: a reassessment , in: Journal of Medieval History , Vol. 9 (1983), pp. 129-144.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no.233, col. 1093.
2. ↑ Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no.235, col. 1096.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Collecció diplomàtica de Sant Pere d'Àger fins 1198 , Vol. I, ed. by R. Chesé ​​Lapeña (2011), No. 69, p. 299.
5. ↑ Colección de Fueros municipales y cartas pueblas , Vol. 1, ed. by T. Muñoz Romero (1847), p. 185. Copy of a document dated 1036 from 1290.
6. ↑ Collecció diplomàtica de Sant Pere d'Àger fins 1198 , Vol. I, ed. by R. Chesé ​​Lapeña (2011), No. 42, p. 261.
7. ↑ Diego Monfar y Sors: Historia de los condes de Urgel , Vol. 1 (1853), pp. 331-332.

Web links

• COMTES de URGELL 992-1231 at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.ac

predecessor	Office	successor
Ermengol II.	Count of Urgell 1038 / 39-1065	Ermengol IV.