Girard I (Roussillon)

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Girard I. ( German  Gerhard ; † 1113 ) was a crusader and count of Rosselló ( Roussillon ). He was a son of Count Giselbert II and his wife Estefanía.

Girard took the cross for the first crusade in 1095 and is mentioned in the siege of Nicea in 1097, the conquest of Antioch in 1098 and the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099. In 1102 he was back home, where on September 15 he and his father made a donation to the Church of Sant Juan in Perpignan . The father died shortly afterwards and Girard was able to take over as count. In 1109 he moved to the Holy Land again , leaving his wife as regent. Shortly after his return in 1113, he was murdered under unclear circumstances.

Girard was married to a woman named Agnes; their son was Gausfred III. († 1164).

literature

  • Miquel Coll i Alentorn: La llegenda de Girard de Rosselló i Catalunya , In: Boletín de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona , Vol. 31 (1965/66), pp. 73-81.

Remarks

  1. ^ Wilhelm von Tire , Historia Rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum , Lib. 1, §17, In: Recueil des historiens des croisades . Historiens occidentaux, Vol. 1. (1844), p. 46.
  2. ↑ Wilhelm von Tire, Historia Rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum , Lib. 2, §17, In: Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens occidentaux, Vol. 1. (1844), p. 96.
  3. ↑ Wilhelm von Tire, Historia Rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum , Lib. 6, §17, In: Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens occidentaux, Vol. 1. (1844), p. 263. Albert von Aachen , Historia Hierosolymitana , Lib. 2, §23, In: Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens occidentaux, Vol. 4. (1879), p. 352.
  4. ↑ Wilhelm von Tire, Historia Rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum , Lib. 8, §18, In: Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens occidentaux, Vol. 1. (1844), p. 352.
  5. ↑ Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no.331, col. 1226.
  6. ↑ Coll i Alentorn, pp. 79-80.

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predecessor Office successor
Giselbert II. Count of Rosselló
1102–1113 		Gausfred III.
personal data
SURNAME Girard I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Rosselló, crusader
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH 1113