Miró the younger

The Catalan counties from 8th to 12th Century.

Miró the Younger , also called Miró II in dynastic continuity ( Catalan Miró el Jove ; † 927 ), was a Count of Cerdanya , Conflent and Besalú from the House of Barcelona . He was one of the four sons of Wilfried the Hairy († 898), the founder of the Catalan ruling dynasty.

Miró had received the counties of Cerdanya and Conflent from his father's conglomerate, and around 920 he had inherited his uncle Radulf in the county of Besalú. He was married to a woman named Ava, with whom he had four sons:

• Sunifred II († 966), Count of Cerdanya, Conflent and Besalú.
• Wilfried II. († 957), Count of Besalú.
• Oliba Cabreta († 990), Count of Cerdanya, Conflent and Besalú.
• Miró Bonfill († 984), Count of Besalú, Bishop of Girona.

Miró also had five illegitimate children.

On June 13th, 925 Miró wrote his will. It is the oldest known will in Catalonia that was not drawn up by a cleric, and thus marks the beginning of the extensive written fixation of the will of the Catalan ruling dynasty. It dates from the reign of King Charles III. of the simple-minded , who at this point was already disempowered by the Robertines . The Catalan counts did not support the usurpation of the throne by the new dynasty. Miró had only died in 927, as his will was only opened that year.

literature

• Nathaniel L. Taylor: Inheritance of Power in the House of Guifred the Hairy: Contemporary Perspectives on the Formation of a Dynasty. In: Robert F. Berkhofer, Alan Cooper, Adam J. Kosto: The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350. Ashgate, Aldershot et al. 2005, ISBN 0-7546-5106-1 , pp. 129-151.

Remarks

1. ↑ Ex Gestis Comitum Barcinonensium. §2, In: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France . Vol. 9, 1874, p. 69.
2. ^ Próspero de Bofarull i Mascaró: Los condes de Barcelona vindicados. Vol. 1, 1836, pp. 88-90.
3. ↑ Taylor, pp. 136-137.
4. ^ Próspero de Bofarull i Mascaró: Los condes de Barcelona vindicados. Vol. 1, 1836, p. 91.

Web link

• COMTES de CERDANYA 897-1118 at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.ac

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilfried I. the hairy	Count of Cerdanya Count of Conflent 898–927	Sunifred II.
Radulf	Count of Besalú around 920–927	Wilfried II.