Miró the elder

Miró the Elder , also called Miró I in dynastic continuity ( Catalan Miró el Vell ; † 896 ), was a Count of Conflent and Rosselló from the House of Barcelona . He was one of the sons of Sunifred I and a younger brother of Wilfried I the Hairy , the founder of the Catalan ruling dynasty.

Together with his brother, Miró took control of most of the counties of the Spanish march from 870 , whereby he was able to establish himself in Conflent at the latest in 873 . Here he and his brother founded the Abbey of Santa Maria de Formiguera on September 23 of this year. Probably after the fall of Bernhard von Gothien , he was also able to take over Roussillon ( Rosselló in Catalan ). He had apparently been able to raise an inheritance claim to these areas, as he is named in a document from the year 879 as the successor to his grandfather Bello of Carcassonne , who was probably his mother's father. In any case, Miró received the recognition of King Charles the Bald , who in 871, presumably at the Synod of Douzy , gave him hereditary patronage over the Abbey of Sant Miquel de Cuixà .

When he died, Conflent was taken over by his brother Wilfried or directly by his son Miró the Younger . Rosselló, however, fell to the count family of Empúries , who were probably cousins of the Bellonid clan . The wife of Count Bencion of Empúries named Gotlana, mentioned in 916, was probably a daughter of Miró.

literature

Pere Ponsich: El problema de la participació del comtat de Rosselló entre els casals de Cerdanya i d'Empuries a la mort del comte Miró I, el Vell (896) , In: Estudis Universitaris Catalans , Vol. 30 (1994), p. 9-24.

Remarks

↑ Histoire générale de Languedoc , Vol. 2, ed. by C. Devic and J. Vaissete (Toulouse, 1840), No. 99, pp. 661-662.
↑ Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 39, col. 804–806.
↑ Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 38, col. 803–804. Testament of the Abbot Protasius of Cuixà dated September 13, 878.
↑ Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 66, col. 841–842.

predecessor	Office	successor
Solomon of Cerdanya	Earl of Conflent 873-896	Wilfried I. the hairy
Bernhard of Gothien	Count of Rosselló 878–896	Sunyer II of Empúries

personal data
SURNAME	Miró the elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Miró el Vell; Miró I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Conflent and Rosselló
DATE OF BIRTH	9th century
DATE OF DEATH	896

[1] Histoire générale de Languedoc , Vol. 2, ed. by C. Devic and J. Vaissete (Toulouse, 1840), No. 99, pp. 661-662.

[2] Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 39, col. 804–806.

[3] Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 38, col. 803–804. Testament of the Abbot Protasius of Cuixà dated September 13, 878.

[4] Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 66, col. 841–842.