Counts of Urgell

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This is a list of the counts of Urgell.

Contents 1 ca. 798-870 Counts appointed by the Carolingians 2 870-992 Counts from the House of Barcelona 3 992-1213 Counts from the House of Barcelona-Urgell 4 1213-1228 Counts from the House of Cabrera 5 1228-1236 Counts from the House of Barcelona-Urgell 6 1236-1314 Counts from the House of Cabrera 7 1314-1413 Counts from the House of Barcelona

[edit] ca. 798-870 Counts appointed by the Carolingians

• 798-820 Borrell, count of Urgell and Cerdanya
• 820-824 Aznar I Galíndez, count of Aragon, was given Borrell's counties while he was exiled from Aragon
• 824-834 Galindo I Aznárez
• 834-848 Sunifred I (Sunyer I)
• 848-870 Solomon (or Miró)

[edit] 870-992 Counts from the House of Barcelona

• 870-897 Wilfred the Hairy, count of Barcelona, Girona-Osona and Urgell-Cerdanya
• 898-948 Sunifred (Sunyer) II, born after 897, died a monk on October 15, 953
• 948-966 Miró de Barcelona, born ca. 940
• 966-September 30, 992 Borrell II, count of Barcelona, Girona, Osona

[edit] 992-1213 Counts from the House of Barcelona-Urgell

• 992-September 1, 1010 Ermengol I el de Còrdova ("of Corboba"), born 975, killed in battle at Córdoba in 1010
• 1010-1038 Ermengol II el Peregrí ("the Pilgrim"), born 1009, died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, 1038
• 1038-1065 Ermengol III el de Barbastre ("of Barbastro"), born ca. 1033, killed at Barbastro in February or March 1065
• 1065-March 11, 1092 Ermengol IV el de Gerp ("of Gerp"), born ca. 1056
• 1092-1102 Ermengol V el de Mollerussa ("of Mollerussa"), born 1078/1079, died in Mollerussa
• 1102-1153/1154 Ermengol VI el de Castella ("of Castile"), born 1096
• 1153/1154-1184 Ermengol VII el de València ("of Valencia")
• 1184-1208/1209 Ermengol VIII el de Sant Hilari ("of Sant Hilari")
• 1208/1209-1213 Aurembiaix (first time) under regency of Peter II of Aragon

[edit] 1213-1228 Counts from the House of Cabrera

• 1213-1228 Guerau I of Urgell, IV of Cabrera (usurper)

[edit] 1228-1236 Counts from the House of Barcelona-Urgell

• 1228-1231 Countess Aurembiaix (second time), from 1229 with her husband, Prince Peter, son of Sancho I of Portugal. She died in 1231
• 1231-1236 King James I of Aragon

[edit] 1236-1314 Counts from the House of Cabrera

• 1236-1243 Ponç I
• 1243 Ermengol IX
• 1243-1268 Álvaro el Castellà ("the Castilian")
• 1268-1314 Ermengol X

[edit] 1314-1413 Counts from the House of Barcelona

• November 10, 1314-1327 King Alfonso IV of Aragon, died 1366
• 1327-1347 James I of Urgell, Prince of Aragon, born 1321, poisoned in Barcelona in 1347
• 1347-1408 Peter of Urgell, born 1340, died at Balaguer, 1408
• 1408-October 31, 1413 James II of Urgell. When Martin I of Aragon died he was a candidate to the crown, but the Compromise of Caspe preferred Ferdinand of Antequera. He revolted and on October 31, 1413, surrendered to the king. The county of Urgell was dissolved and count James died in jail in the castle of Xàtiva on June 1, 1433.