Ponç (Urgell)

Ponç ( German  Pontius ; † 1243 ) was a Count of Urgell and Vice Count of Áger from the House of Cabrera . He was a son of Guerau IV. De Cabrera , 1213-1228 Count of Urgell, and Eilo Pérez de Castro.

With his father, Ponç had fought against King James I of Aragón and his mistress Aurembiaix for the county of Urgell in 1228 . However, the father died that same year and the king was militarily superior, which is why Ponç had to accept the loss of Urgell to his rival. After their heirless death in 1231 Urgell fell to the Crown of Aragon . But Ponç had not given up his claims to the county and always represented them before the king. When the king planned his campaign against Valencia in 1236 and wanted quiet conditions in Catalonia, he showed himself ready to give in to the Cabrera's request. In Tàrrega , Ponç was formally entrusted with the county of Urgell and given control of most of its castles. In return, he had to contractually waive the cities of Lleida and Balaguer , which should remain with the crown. Urgell was won back to the Cabrera family, but their rule there should not remain undisputed in the future.

Ponç was married to Aurembiaix, daughter of Ramon II. De Montcada, lord of Tortosa. They didn't have any children.

His second wife was the Castilian noblewoman María González Girón, with whom he had three sons:

• Ermengol IX. († 1243), Count of Urgell.
• Álvaro "Rodrígez" († 1267), Count of Urgell.
• Guerau

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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), §35, p. 149.
• Jéronimo Zurita , Anales de la corona de Aragón , ed. by Ángel Canellas López (1967), Vol. 1, Lib. 3, §24.
• The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon. A Translation of the medieval catalan Llibre dels Fets , ed. by Damian J. Smith and Helena Buffery (2010), §46, p. 66.

Web link

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

predecessor	Office	successor
Crown of Aragon	Earl of Urgell 1236-1243	Ermengol IX.