House Cabrera

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The coat of arms of the House of Cabrera shows a billy goat (Catalan / Spanish: Cabra ) and is first documented for Ponç II. Guerau in the 12th century. It is now the coat of arms of the municipality of Santa Maria de Corcó.

The Cabrera house was a family of the Catalan nobility, traceable since the early 11th century. The family is named after their ancestral castle Cabrera, located near today's town of Santa Maria de Corcó in the Comarca Osona .

history

The progenitor of the house was a certain Gausfred, who was documented as lord of the castle of Cabrera (Gauzfredi ex castro Caprerensi) in an act by Bishop Wilfried von Besalú in 1017 . His presumed son Guerau I married the heir to the Vice Count Amat, whereby the house came into the possession of the Vice County of Girona , which in turn was a fiefdom of the Counts of Barcelona . The vice-count's title was then transferred to all possessions of the Cabrera, which was expanded by the marriage of Ponç I to the castle of Àger ( Comarca Noguera ), which was in the county of Urgell .

The Cabrera family had established themselves among the leading feudal nobility in Catalonia in the 12th century. Ponç II. Guerau († 1162/63) had reached high dignity at the court of Emperor Alfonso VII of León-Castile . In the 13th century the family had acquired an inheritance claim to the powerful county of Urgell, which Guerau IV († 1228) tried to enforce by force, thus triggering an almost one hundred year feud between his family and the Crown of Aragon .

Trunk list (simplified)

11th to 12th centuries

  1. Gausfred (named 1017), Lord of Cabrera
    1. Guerau I. de Cabrera († before 1050), Lord of Cabrera, Vice-Count of Girona; ∞ with Ermessenda († 1057), daughter and heiress of Amat de Montsoriú, Vice Count of Girona
      1. Ponç I de Cabrera († between 1084 and 1090), Lord of Cabrera, Vice Count of Girona; ∞ with Letgardis de Tost, heiress of Àger
        1. Guerau II Ponç de Cabrera († 1131/32), Vice Count of Girona, Lord of Cabrera and Àger; 1. ∞ with Estefania; 2. ∞ with Elvira
          1. Ponç II. Guerau de Cabrera († 1162/63), Vice Count of Girona, Lord of Cabrera and Àger, Prince of Zamora , maiordomus imperatoris ; 1. ∞ with Sancha; 2. ∞ with María Fernández de Traba
            1. (I) NN (son, † 1157)
            2. (I) Guerau III. Ponç de Cabrera († after 1165), Vice Count of Cabrera and Àger; ∞ with Berenguela
              1. Ponç III. de Cabrera († around 1199), Vice Count of Cabrera and Àger; ∞ with Marqueza, daughter of Ermengol VII. († 1184), Count of Urgell
                1. Guerau IV. De Cabrera († 1228), Vice Count of Cabrera and Àger, Count of Urgell; ∞ with Eilo Pérez de Castro - offspring see below
            3. (II) Fernando Ponce de Cabrera
            4. (II) Sancha de Cabrera († 1176); ∞ with Count Vela Gutiérrez († 1160)
              1. Pontius Vela of Cabrera († 1202); ∞ with Teresa Rodríguez Girón, daughter of Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón and his first wife María de Guzmán
                1. Pedro Pontius of Cabrera ; ∞ with Aldonza Alfonso of León ; This marriage gave rise to one of the most famous noble houses of the later Middle Ages, Pontius of León , which ruled over the duchies of Arcos and Cádiz
          2. Ferrer de Cabrera
          3. Bernat de Cabrera
          4. Pere de Cabrera
          5. (Filiation disputed) Arsenda; ∞ with Ermengol VI. († 1154), Count of Urgell

13th to 14th centuries

  1. Guerau IV. De Cabrera († 1228), Vice Count of Cabrera and Àger, Count of Urgell; ∞ with Eilo Pérez de Castro
    1. Ponç de Cabrera († 1243), Count of Urgell, Vice Count of Àger; 1. ∞ with Aurembiaix de Montcada, daughter of Pere I. de Montcada, Senyor d'Aitona; 2. ∞ with María González Girón
      1. (II) Ermengol IX. († 1243), Count of Urgell, Vice Count of Àger
      2. (II) Álvaro († 1267), Count of Urgell, Vice-Count of Àger; 1. ∞ with Constança de Montcada, daughter of Pere I. de Montcada, Senyor d'Aitona; 2. ∞ with Cécile de Foix, daughter of Roger Bernard II , Count of Foix
        1. (I) Leonor; ∞ with Sancho d'Antillón
          1. Constança d'Antillón; ∞ with Gombau d'Entença († 1308)
            1. Teresa d'Entença († 1327), Countess von Urgell and Vice Countess von Àger as heiress of Ermengol X .; ∞ with the later King Alfonso IV of Aragón
        2. (II) Ermengol X. († 1314), Count of Urgell, Vice-Count of Àger; ∞ with Sibilla de Montcada, daughter of Pere I. de Montcada, Senyor d'Aitona
        3. (II) Álvaro († 1299), Vice Count of Àger; ∞ with Sibila de Cardona, daughter of Ramon Folch de Cardona, Vescomte de Cardona
        4. (II) Cecilie; ∞ Jofre IV., Vescomte de Rocabertí
    2. Guerau V. de Cabrera († around 1242), Vice Count of Cabrera; ∞ with Ramona de Montcada
      1. Guerau VI. de Cabrera († around 1278), Vice Count of Cabrera; ∞ with Sancha de Santa Eugenia, Señora de Torroella de Montgrí
        1. Marquesa de Cabrera; ∞ with Ponç V. († 1313), Count of Empúries
      2. Ramon de Cabrera, Señor de Angles y Brunola; ∞ with Alamanda
        1. Bernardo I. de Cabrera, Vescomte de Cabrera; ∞ with Leonor de Aguilar
          1. Bernardo II. De Cabrera († 1364), Vescomte de Cabrera; ∞ with Timbor de Fenollet
            1. Ponç IV. De Cabrera († 1349), Vescomte de Cabrera
            2. Bernardo III de Cabrera († 1368), Vescomte de Cabrera, Conde de Módica; ∞ with Marguerite de Foix, daughter of Roger Bernard III. , Count of Foix
              1. Bernardo IV. De Cabrera († 1423), Vescomte de Cabrera, Conde de Módica y Osona; 1. ∞ with Timbor, daughter of Juan de Aragón, Conde de Prades; 2. ∞ with Cécile d'Urgell, daughter of Pedro de Aragón, Conde d'Urgell - descendants see below
    3. Rodrigo Ponce de Castro († 1259); ∞ with Leonor González de Lara
      1. Leonor Rodríguez de Castro († 1275); ∞ with Infante Felipe de Castilla († 1274), son of King Ferdinand III. of Castile
      2. Fernando Rodríguez de Castro; ∞ with Urraca López de Haro, daughter of Diego López V. de Haro , Lord of Vizcaya.

15th century

  1. Bernardo IV. De Cabrera († 1423), Vescomte de Cabrera, Conde de Módica y Osona; 1. ∞ with Timbor, daughter of Juan de Aragón, Conde de Prades; 2. ∞ with Cécile d'Urgell, daughter of Pedro de Aragón, Conde d'Urgell
    1. Bernardo V. de Cabrera († 1466), Vescomte de Cabrera, Conde de Módica y Osona; ∞ with Violante de Prades
      1. Juan I de Cabrera († 1474), Vescomte de Cabrera, Conde de Módica y Osona; ∞ with Jeanne de Carmain
        1. Juan II. De Cabrera († 1477), Vescomte de Cabrera, Conde de Módica y Osona
        2. Ana I. de Cabrera († around 1526), ​​Vescomtesa de Cabrera, Condesa de Módica y Osona; ∞ with Fadrique Enríquez († 1537), 2nd Conde de Melgar, Señor de Medina del Rioseco, Grand Admiral of Castile
    2. Sancha de Cabrera; ∞ with Archambaud de Foix († 1419), Sire de Navailles, son of Archambaud de Grailly and Isabelle , Countess of Foix
    3. Timbor de Cabrera; ∞ with Juan Fernández de Hijar, Señor de Belchite

literature

  • Vicente Coma y Soley: Los Vizcondes de Cabrera . Llibreria Balmes, Barcelona 1968.
  • Jaume Coll i Castanyer: Els vescomtes de Girona . In: Annals de l'Institut d'Estudis Gironins . Vol. 30, 1988, pp. 39-98.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 177, col. 1007-1009. Coll i Castanyer, p. 52.