Ermengol VII (Urgell)

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Ermengol VII of Valencia ( Catalan Ermengol el de València ; † August 11, 1184 in Requena ) was a Count of Urgell from the House of Barcelona . He was a son of Count Ermengol VI. von Urgell († 1154) and the Arsenda de Cabrera ( House Cabrera ).

Like his father, Ermengol VII spent most of his life in the Kingdom of León-Castile. From 1167 he continuously belonged to the retinue of King Ferdinand II of León , who had appointed him his maiordomus . Furthermore, he had been awarded the rule of Extremadura and Alcántara , in whose conquest he was involved. In 1184 Ermengol led a campaign with his half-brother Galcéron de Sales in the Moorish Taifa kingdom of Valencia . In Requena ( Comarca Plana d'Utiel ) they were defeated and killed. Ermengol was buried in the Abbey of Santa María de Bellpuig near Avellanas, which he founded with his wife in 1166. His descendant, Ermengol X. , had a tomb designed for him that was bought by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1928 and bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City , where it can be seen today in the The Cloisters branch .

He was married to Dolça von Foix († 1209), daughter of Count Roger III. from Foix . Your children were:

  • Ermengol VIII († October 16, 1209), Count of Urgell.
  • Marquesa; ∞ with Ponç III. de Cabrera , Vice Count of Cabrera and Àger.
  • Miraglia; ∞ with Count Gómez González de Traba.

literature

  • Joseph Breck: The Tomb of Armengol VII , In: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin , 23 (1928), pp. 141-147.
  • James J. Rorimer : A Fourteenth Century Catalan Tomb at the Cloisters and Related Monuments , In: The Art Bulletin , 13 (1931), pp. 409-437.
  • JL Martín Rodríguez: Un vasallo de Alfonso el Casto en el reino de León: Armengol VII, conde de Urgel , In: VII Congreso de Historia de la Corona de Aragón , 2 (1962), pp. 223-233.
  • Simon Barton: Two catalan magnates in the court of the King of León-Castile: the careers of Ponce de Cabrera and Ponce de Minerva re-examined , in: Journal of Medieval History , 18 (1992), pp. 232-266.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jéronimo Zurita , Anales de la corona de Aragón , ed. by Ángel Canellas López (1967), Vol. 1, Lib. 2, §40.
  2. ↑ Ex Gesta Comitum Barcinonensium §18, in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 12 (1877), p. 377.
  3. ↑ Historia de la Corona de Aragón: Crónica de San Juan de la Peña: Part aragonesa , ed. by T. Ximénez de Embún y Val (1876), §33, p. 134.

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Ermengol VI. Earl of Urgell 1154–1184
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Ermengol VIII.
personal data
SURNAME Ermengol VII.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ermengol VII of Valencia (full name); Ermengol el de Valencia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Urgell
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1184
Place of death Requena