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).