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297: 36: 1014: 655:, Urgell, and Cerdanya—to which people had fled in the two centuries between the collapses of Visigothic and Carolingian authority. Wilfred's plan involved repopulating and subsequently annexing the counties to those he already controlled. Thus, Vall de Lord became part of Urgell and Berguedà part of Cerdanya. Wilfred re-created the County of 899:, succeeded him in France. Splinter realms also arose in Aquitaine and Burgundy. The breakdown of central royal authority and the dynastic changes broke the Holy Roman Empire and Frankish Kingdom apart. The Carolingian polity which empowered the counts at the beginning of the century was nonexistent by the end; the Counts were 1004:
At first, Wilfred tolerated the dethronement of Ingoberto — there had been little love between them — but he could not allow the metropolitan pretensions of Esclua because of his friendship with Teotardo. The creation of independent dioceses was a method of securing political independence and
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as Count of Carcassonne. On 11 September 878, Bernard was dispossessed of all his titles. Bernard's former possessions were given to Wilfred (Barcelona with Ausona, Girona, and BesalĂş) and MirĂł (Roussillon). The counties of Narbonne, BĂ©ziers, and Agde were separated from that of Barcelona.
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Wilfred opposed this. He could not allow the lands under his control to be affected by the nobility or the Church. However, there is no indication that he took any action, possibly because of other external issues (such as the Muslim presence to his south and west).
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According to legend, he was the son of Wilfred of Arriaount (or Wilfred of Arri), a county near Prades. His father was murdered by SalomĂłn and Wilfred became his avenger, killing the assassin. After the research done by French monks Dom De Vic and
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The ecclesiastic state of the region was no less isolated than its political state, with the parishes largely remaining outside of the universal hierarchy. Wilfred brought the parishes of Bergueda and Vall de Lord within the control of the nearby
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died and his county of Roussillon passed, without interference from King Odo, to Sunyer II of EmpĂşries. In fact, Wilfred himself was never confirmed by any monarch as Count of Ausona. The importance of this development in the
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during the 9th century. They were generally agrarian, self-sufficient, and ruled by a small military elite. This pattern in Catalonia was similar to that found in similar border lands or marches elsewhere in Europe.
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coast. This was the first time since the reign of his father (which ended in 848) that these different areas had been united politically and the only other time within the 9th century. The land between these
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The Bellonid counts rejected Charles the Fat's successor, Odo, but they also did not rise in favor of Louis the Stammerer's surviving son, Charles the Simple. In the end, Odo was too absorbed with the
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cannot be overstated. As hereditary succession became the custom, it became accepted as law and the kings lost control over the counts. The counts had become sovereigns in their own dominions.
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By 884, the Muslims had become increasingly uneasy by the expansion of the Christian counties to the north. Wilfred had established defensive positions or castles in Ausona at
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The lack, however, of a legal basis for inheritance led to various experiments in hereditary succession. When Wilfred died in 897, his counties were divided amongst his sons.
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844–848) and Wilfred, and the weakening of Carolingian royal power, the appointment of heirs eventually become a formality. This trend resulted in the counts becoming
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The churches in the region during this period flourished gaining much power and privilege. This included the right for monks to elect their own abbots as espoused by
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problem, which they regarded as meaningless to their domains. However, they did visit the royal court in 886 to ask for privileges and precepts to be granted to
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and King Louis II the Stammerer, Wilfred was formally invested as Count of Urgell and Cerdanya, MirĂł as Count of Conflent, Sunyer as Count of EmpĂşries, and
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Wilfred's actions as a Frankish vassal towards carving out his own domain from several counties and moving out of the sphere of influence of the
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is principally the result of the establishment of hereditary succession of the counties rather than by choice of the monarch. In 895,
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appointed by the French king and the first to pass his vast holdings as an inheritance to his sons (albeit sanctioned by the monarch).
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and its search for its historical foundations in a distant and idealized past, Wilfred soon arose as a figure of independence, the
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Wilfred embarked on the process of repopulating these territories with immigrants from the heavily populated mountain regions—
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Servus, who was consecrated by Teotardo, but had been rejected by Dela, Sunyer, and Wilfred, took refuge in the monastery of
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Cingolani, Stefano Maria (2010). "The Family of Wilfred I, the Hairy: Marriage and the Consolidation of Power, 800-1000".
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rewarded his bravery by giving him a coat of arms. The king slid Wilfred's blood-stained fingers over the Count's copper
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The Bellonid lineage lost its power when Sunifred and Sunyer died in 848, but was revived slightly by the appointment of
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in response. Provoked by this, Wilfred attacked Ismail at Lleida. The attack however was a disaster. The historian
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Wilfred married Guinidilda. Charters from the period give her father as one Sunifred, who was probably a noble. The
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in 801. The appointment of heirs could not be taken for granted. However, with the rise of strong counts such as
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When Louis the Stammerer died in 879 after a two-year reign, the kingdom was divided between his two young sons.
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La família catalana dels comtes de Carcassona. Genealogia de Guifré el Pilós dins d’Els primers comtes Catalans
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from the remaining counties of Ripollés, Lluçanès, the Plana de Vic, and Guilleries—centred around the city of
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describes the massacre of the attackers by the city's defenders. Buoyed by this success, Ismail's successor
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in 827, but was considered territory belonging to the Count of Barcelona since 820, when it was given to
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world for references and links to modern national and cultural identities, and in the context of
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al-Qasawi attacked Barcelona in 897. Wilfred died in battle on 11 August 897. He was buried in
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After the investiture of 878, Wilfred's lands stretched from Urgell and Cerdanya in the
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and those loyal to Charles the Simple to be bothered with the far south of the realm.
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After becoming Count of Urgell and Cerdanya in 870, Wilfred received the counties of
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He was responsible for the repopulation of the long-depopulated no-man's land around
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One of the legends that has arisen around his person is that of the creation of the
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in June 870, Charles the Bald made their cousins, Wilfred the Hairy and his brother
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were confirmed in their sees. Wilfred immediately ceded BesalĂş to his brother
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was the first to define it as a "fable" in Chapter 30 of Book 3 of his work,
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describing the raids of 1114 by Pisans and Catalans on the island of
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Wilfred the Hairy has become a figure of importance for contemporary
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received the ancient northern partitions of the Merovingian kingdom,
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Incapable of much, Charles was lethargic and probably suffered from
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reported that "...e was hairy in places not normally so in men..."
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Traditionally the Count of Barcelona was appointed directly by the
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by Wilfred and his wife Guinedilda to provide for their daughter
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Wilfred came into possession of Barcelona through his service to
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Wilfred remained obscure until drawn into the historians' net by
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The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050
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in December. He subsequently failed to deal with revolts in
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Collins, Roger. "Charles the Bald and Wifred the Hairy".
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independent—especially in the outlying regions, like the
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Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain
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