Counts of Berga
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The counts of Berga were the feudal lords of Berga
, one of the Catalan counties
created out of Besalú
in 988 for a younger son of Oliba Cabreta
. The viscounts of Berga ruled the city in name during the rule of the counts of Besalú from the early tenth century.
To the counts of Barcelona.
Sold to Peter II of Aragón
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Berga
Berga is the capital of the comarca of Berguedà, in Catalonia, Spain.- History :Berga derives its name from the Bergistani, an Iberian tribe that lived in the area before the Roman conquest. The Bergistani were first subdued by Hannibal in 218 BC...
, one of the Catalan counties
Catalan counties
The Catalan counties were the administrative divisions of the eastern Carolingian Marca Hispanica created after its Frankish conquest. The various counties roughly defined what came to be known as the Principality of Catalonia....
created out of Besalú
Besalú
Besalú is a town in the comarca of Garrotxa, in Catalonia, Spain.The town's importance was greater in the early Middle Ages, as capital of the county of Besalú, whose territory was roughly the same size as the current comarca of Garrotxa but sometime extended as far as Corbières, Aude, in France....
in 988 for a younger son of Oliba Cabreta
Oliba Cabreta
Oliba Cabreta was the count of Cerdanya from 965 and count of Besalú from 984 until his abdication in 988. He was the fourth son of Miró II and Ava. He inherited Cerdanya from his eldest brother Sunifred II and Besalú from his elder brother Miró III...
. The viscounts of Berga ruled the city in name during the rule of the counts of Besalú from the early tenth century.
Counts
- OlivaAbbot OlivaOliva was the count of Berga and Ripoll and later bishop of Vic and abbot of Sant Miquel de Cuixà. He was the son of a noble Catalan house who abdicated his secular possessions to take up the Benedictine habit in the Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll...
(988-1002) - WilfredWilfred II of CerdanyaWifred was the Count of Cerdanya and Count of Berga . He was the eldest son of Oliba Cabreta and Ermengard of Ampurias....
(1002-1035) - Bernard IBernard I of BergaBernard I was the count of Berga from 1035 to 1050. He was the sixth of seven sons of Wilfred II of Cerdanya and his father's successor in Berga.He died without heirs and his county passed to brother number seven: Berengar....
(1035-1050) - BerengarBerengar of BergaBerengar , the third son of Wilfred II of Cerdanya and Guisla, was the count of Berga in 1050 from the death of his brother Bernard I until he renounced the county later the same year to become bishop of Girona until his death. The county passed to his elders brother Raymond I of Cerdanya....
(1050) - Raymond (1050-1068)
- William IWilliam I of CerdanyaWilliam I Raymond was the count of Cerdanya and Berga from the year of his birth till that of his death, giving up Berga a year earlier to his son William-Jordan....
(1068-1094) - William IIWilliam-JordanWilliam II Jordan was the Count of Berga beginning in 1094, the Count of Cerdanya beginning in 1095, and Regent of the County of Tripoli beginning in 1105....
(1094-1109) co-reigning with - Bernard IIBernard of CerdanyaBernard William was the Count of Berga and Count of Cerdanya .A son of William I of Cerdanya and Sancha of Barcelona, he inherited Berga from his father in 1094. On the death of his brother William-Jordan in 1109, he inherited Cerdanya...
(1094-1117)
To the counts of Barcelona.
Viscounts
- Brandai (905-?)
- Onofred (c.950)
- Bardina (1003-1017)
- Dalmau I (1017-1067)
- Bernat Dalmau (1067-1086)
- Dalmau II Bernat (1086-1113)
- Guisla (1113-?)
- William I (?-1183)
- William II (1183-1196)
- Berengar (1196-1199)
- Raymond (1199)
Sold to Peter II of Aragón
Peter II of Aragon
Peter II the Catholic was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1196 to 1213.He was the son of Alfonso II of Aragon and Sancha of Castile...
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