Oliba Cabreta

Count of Cerdanya and Besalú

Events

Date of Birth: about 922.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 202).

Date of Death: 990.

Place of Death: Monte Cassino.

The date and place are given by Aurell (p. 80) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 202).

Relationships

Father: Miró II, count of Cerdanya-Besalú.

This relationship is given by Aurell and by Salazar y Acha (p. 202).

Mother: Ava.

This relationship is given by Aurell and by Salazar y Acha (p. 202).

Spouse: Ermengarde.

This relationship is given by Aurell (p. 154), who suggests (p. 156) that she was possibly from an aristocratic family of Vallespir, since she inherited property at Llupià. Salazar y Acha states that she was possibly the daughter of Gausberto, count of Ampurias and of Trudegarda.

Lover: Ingelberga de Besora.

This relationship is given by Aurell (p. 78, p. 197) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 203).

Children (by Ermengarde):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Guifred (II) (born about 962 - died 31 July 1149), count of Cerdanya, married (1) Guisla; married (2) Elisabet.

Bernat Tallaferro (died 1120) married Tota/Adelaide.

Oliba (born about 971 - died 30 October 1046), bishop of Vic.

Berenguer (born about 973 - died 1003), bishop of Elna.

Adelaida (born about 974 - died about 1024) married Joan d’Oriol.

Children (by Ingilberga):

Ingilberga (born about 974 - died about 1055), abbess of St Joan.

References

Aurell, Martin. Les noces du comte: Mariage et pouvoir en Catalogne (785-1213) (1995).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).