Ermengol X. (Urgell)

Ermengol X. († 1314 ) was a Count of Urgell from the House of Cabrera . He was a son of Count Álvaro von Urgell († 1267) and Cecile von Foix.

Life

When the father died, the Cabrera family in Urgell was de facto ousted, as the county was occupied by King James I of Aragón shortly before his death due to the confused marital situation . As his father's testamentary heir, Ermengol had pushed for the restitution of his inheritance from then on and therefore joined the broad opposition of the Catalan nobility against the authority of the old king in 1274. He continued this against his successor Peter III after the king's death in 1276 . away. He received support from his cousin, Count Roger Bernard III. von Foix , who invaded Urgell with a large army in 1280 and conquered the city of Balaguer . There the allies of Peter III. Besieged for five weeks and finally forced to surrender and captured in July of that year.

Ermengol had then with Peter III. reconciled, in 1283 he had belonged to his entourage in Bordeaux , in the duel against the knights of Charles of Anjou . The extent to which his father's property was returned to him is unclear, but it is unlikely that he was given back the full extent of County Urgell. He had married Sibilla de Montcada, a sister of his father's unloved first wife, with which he apparently wanted to settle his feud with the Montcada house . After their death, he married a second time, and neither marriage resulted in any children. Shortly before his death in 1314, Ermengol had designated his great-niece Teresa d'Entença as his testamentary heir, on the condition that she would marry the future King Alfonso IV , with which Urgell's fall into the conglomerate of the Aragón crown also de jure sealed should be.

Ermengol was buried in the Abbey of Santa María de Bellpuig near Avellanas. From 1300 he had the design of the tombs of his parents, his brother Àlvar and his uncle Ermengol IX. and his ancestor Ermengol VII , all of which can be seen today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( The Cloisters ) in New York City .

literature

• Francesch Carreras y Candi: Lo siti de Balaguer del 1280 , In: Miscelanea Histórica Catalana , Vol. 2 (1906), pp. 33-56.
• Joseph Breck: The Tomb of Armengol VII , In: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin , Vol. 23 (1928), pp. 141-147.

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• Ex Gestis comitum barcinonensium et aragoniæ regum , ed. in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 19 (1880), p. 233.
• Historia de la Corona de Aragón: Crónica de San Juan de la Peña: Part aragonesa , ed. by T. Ximénez de Embún y Val (1876), §36, pp. 168-170.
• Jéronimo Zurita , Anales de la corona de Aragón , ed. by Ángel Canellas López (1967).

Remarks

1. ↑ Zurita, Vol. 1, Lib. 3, §88, 91.
2. ↑ Zurita, Vol. 2, Lib. 4, §5, 9, 14.
3. ↑ Zurita, Vol. 2, Lib. 4, §28.
4. ↑ Zurita, Vol. 3, Lib. 6, §17.

Web links

• COMTES de URGELL (CABRERA) 1231-1275 at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.ac

predecessor	Office	successor
Álvaro	Count of Urgell 1267-1314	Teresa d'Entença