Ermengol VI. (Urgell)

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Ermengol VI. that of Castile ( Catalan Ermengol el de Castella ; * around 1095; † June 28, 1154 ) was a Count of Urgell from the House of Barcelona . He was a son of Count Ermengol V von Urgell († 1102) and María Pérez.

biography

Ermengol VI. was called "the one of Castile", not only because he spent his youth with his mother in Valladolid , but also a large part of his life at the court of the Leonese-Castilian kings. After the death of his father, his maternal grandfather, the influential Castilian Count Pedro Ansúrez , took over the reign of Urgell until 1109. This had an important role in 1105 in the conquest of Balaguer by Count Raimund Berengar III. played by Barcelona . The coat of arms of his grandfather was taken over by Ermengol VI, who assumed his rule in 1115. Politically, he leaned against King Alfonso I of Aragón and after his death in 1134 he paid homage to King Alfonso VII of León-Castile in Saragossa . Already on January 23, 1133 he had ceded his sovereign rights over the valleys of Andorra to the Bishop of Urgell . In the following years he was a permanent member of the Leonese court, only in 1144 he is mentioned in the entourage of Count Raimund Berengar IV of Barcelona on his journey to Provence .

Then Ermengol was again a member of the retinue of Alfonso VII, who was crowned "Emperor of all Spain" in 1135. In the spring of 1146 he was named in the office of the "imperial house maier" (maiordomus imperatoris) , apparently representing his brother-in-law Ponç II. De Cabrera , and was a participant in the conquest of Cordoba . The following year he was also involved in the conquest of Calatrava and Almería . In the winter of 1149 he was again at the side of the Count of Barcelona in the capture of Lleida , which was awarded to the County of Urgell. Ermengol spent the last years of his life in Castile and after his death was buried in the Cistercian Abbey of Santa María de Valbuena , founded by his sister Estefanía.

Ermengol VI. was first married to Arsenda, a daughter of his vassal Guerau II. de Cabrera ( House of Cabrera ). Your children were:

His second wife was Elvira Rodríguez, a daughter of Rodrigo González de Lara . They had a daughter:

  • Maria; ∞ with Lope López de Vizcaya

He had also had a few illegitimate children.

literature

  • DW Lomax: Catalans in the Leonese empire , In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies , Vol. 59 (1982), pp. 191-197.
  • Simon Barton: The Count, the Bishop and the Abbot: Armengol VI of Urgel and the Abbey of Valladolid , In: The English Historical Review , Vol. 111 (1996), pp. 85-103.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jéronimo Zurita , Anales de la corona de Aragón , ed. by Ángel Canellas López (1967), Vol. 1, Lib. 2, §15.
  2. ↑ Historia de la Corona de Aragón: Crónica de San Juan de la Peña: Part aragonesa , ed. by T. Ximénez de Embún y Val (1876), §31, p. 120.
  3. ↑ Jéronimo Zurita, Anales de la corona de Aragón , ed. by Ángel Canellas López (1967), Vol. 1, Lib. 1, §54.
  4. ↑ Cartulari de la Vall d'Andorra, segles IX-XIII, Vol. I, ed. by Cebrià Baraut (1988), pp. 158-159.
  5. ↑ Historia de la Corona de Aragón: Crónica de San Juan de la Peña: Part aragonesa , ed. by T. Ximénez de Embún y Val (1876), §32, p. 124.

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Ermengol V. Earl of Urgell 1102-1154
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personal data
SURNAME Ermengol VI.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ermengol VI. that of Castile (full name); Ermengol el de Castella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Urgell
DATE OF BIRTH around 1095
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1154