William I Of Cerdanya

	William I Of Cerdanya William I Raymond ( ca, Guillem Ramon; oc, Guilhem Ramon) (1068–1095) was the count of Cerdanya and Count of Berga, Berga from the year of his birth till that of his death, giving up Berga a year earlier to his son William-Jordan. He was the son of Raymond I of Cerdanya, who died a short while after his birth. He married Sancha, daughter of Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona, while they were both very young. William became the tutor of his nephew, the future Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, Ramon Berenguer III. He took an interest in repopulating parts of his domain and promulgated the charter to the people of Villafranca. In 1094, he granted Berga to his sons and the elder, William, inherited Cerdanya when he died the next year. Issue * William II Jordan, Count of Cerdanya. * Bernard, Count of Cerdanya. External linksImage of a miniature from the ''Liber feudorum Ceritaniae'', depicting a convention between Folc II de Cardona, Folch, Bishop of Urgell, and Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Count Of Cerdanya The County of Cerdanya ( ca, Comtat de Cerdanya, ; la, Comitatus Ceritaniae; es, Condado de Cerdaña, french: Comté de Cerdagne) was one of the Catalan counties formed in the last decades of the 8th century by the Franks in the ''Marca Hispanica''. The original Cerdanya consisted of the valley of the upper Segre. Today Cerdanya is a Catalan ''comarca''. Origins The region had been conquered by the Moors in the early 8th century. In 731, the Moorish governor of Cerdanya allied himself with Odo the Great by marrying his daughter, at Odo's insistence, in order to secure his southern frontier from further Muslim expansion.Lewis, 22 and n6. Cerdanya was at this time predominantly Basque, and Odo had a pro-Basque policy in the face of Charles Martel and the Franks. Moorish rule was soon purely nominal; the Cerdanya was conquered by Charlemagne shortly after the surrender of Girona in 785. The first Count of Cerdanya that we know of by name was Borrell I (798), who was subject to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Count Of Berga 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. Counts {{Main article, Catalan counties #Catalan Counties under Bellonid dynasty 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. See also * Vescomtat de Berga at Catalan Wikipedia. Berga Berga () is the capital of the ''comarca'' (county) of Berguedà, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is bordered by the municipalities of Cercs, Olvan, Avià, Capolat and Castellar del Riu. History Berga derives its name from ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	William-Jordan William II Jordan ( ca, Guillem Jordà; oc, Guilhèm Jordan) (died 1109) 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. He was the son of Count William I of Cerdanya and Sança, daughter of Count Ramon Berenguer I of Barcelona. William accompanied the Army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles, army of Raymond IV of Toulouse, one of the leaders of the First Crusade, to the Holy Land. Raymond died in the east in 1105, leaving his young son Alfonso-Jordan as lord of Mons Peregrinus and Tartus, Tortosa (of Syria) and nominal Count of Tripoli (which had not yet been captured by the crusaders). Since Alfonso-Jordan was still a child, Raymond's soldiers chose William-Jordan as regent. Meanwhile in Toulouse, Raymond's elder son Bertrand of Toulouse, Bertrand was ruling in his absence. After Raymond's death the barons of Toulouse chose Alfonso to replace Bertrand, who, now overthrown, travelled to the east, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Raymond I Of Cerdanya Raymond is a male given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa .... It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund (other), Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic languages, Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Raginmund'') or ᚱᛖᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Reginmund''). ''Ragin'' (Gothic language, Gothic) and ''regin'' (Old German) meant "counsel". The Old High German ''mund'' originally meant "hand", but came to mean "protection". This etymology suggests that the name originated in the Early Middle Ages, possibly from Latin. Alternatively, the name can also be derived from Germanic Hraidmund, the first element being ''Hraid'', possibly meaning "fame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]