Sunyer (I), count of Barcelona

Count of Barcelona and of Girona

Count of Osona


Events


Date of Birth: about 890 - 892.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Salrach Marés.


Date of Death: 15 October 950.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Salrach Marés.


Relationships


Father: Guifré (I) “el Velloso”.

This relationship is given by Bofarull y Mascaró (1:1 ff.), by Aurell, by Salazar y Acha (p. 142), and by Salrach Marés.

Mother: Guinidilda.

This relationship is given by Bofarull y Mascaró (1:1 ff.), by Aurell, by Salazar y Acha (p. 142), and by Salrach Marés.


Spouse: Riquilda.

This relationship is given by Bofarull y Mascaró (1:64 ff.), by Salrach Marés, by Salazar y Acha (p. 142), and by Aurell. Salrach Marés notes that she might have been of la Roergue.


Children:

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


Armengol (born about 925 - died 21 August, 942).


Adelaida (born about 926 - died after 11 March 998), abbess of San Juan de las Abadesas de Ripoll.


Borrell (II) (born about 928 - died 30 September 993), count of Barcelona, married (1) Ledgarde; married (2) Aimerudis.


Miró (born about 930 - died 31 October 966).


Jozfredo (born about 934).


References


Aurell i Cardona, Martí. “Jalons pour une enquête sur les strategies matrimoniales des comtes catalans (IXe-XIe s.)” in Symposium Internacional sobre els orígens de Catalunya (Segles VIII-IX): I (Volume 23 of Memorias de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona, 1991).


Aurell, Martin. "Pouvoir et parenté des comtes de la marche hispanique (801-911)” in La royauté et les élites dans l’Europe carolingienne (du début du IXe aux environs de 920 (Centre d’Histoire de l’Europe du Nord-Ouest, 1998).


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


Bofarull y Mascaró, Próspero de. Los Condes de Barcelona Vindicados, y Cronología y Genealogía de los Reyes de España Considerados Como Soberanos Independientes de Su Marca 2 Volumes. (Barcelona: 1836).


Salrach Marés, José María. “Suniario" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).


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


Vones-Liebenstein, Ursula. Barcelona genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.