Bernard, Count Of Cerdanya

Bernard William ( ca, Bernat Guillem; oc, Bernat Guilhem) (died 1118) was the

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 earl ...

(from 1094, as Bernard II) and

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' ...

(from 1109). A son of

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 th ...

and Sancha of Barcelona, he inherited Berga from his father in 1094. On the death of his brother

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 ...

in 1109, he inherited Cerdanya. In 1111, after the death of

Bernard III of Besalú Bernard ('' Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ...

, he opposed the integration of Besalú into the

County of Barcelona The County of Barcelona ( la, Comitatus Barcinonensis, ca, Comtat de Barcelona) was originally a frontier region under the rule of the Carolingian dynasty. In the 10th century, the Counts of Barcelona became progressively independent, heredi ...

as it was technically a feudatory of Cerdanya, as were Fenollet and

Vallespir Vallespir (; ) is a historical Catalan comarca in Northern Catalonia, part of the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales. The capital of the comarca is Ceret, and it borders Conflent, Rosselló, Alt Empordà, Garrotxa and Ripollès. It l ...

. However, he eventually agreed to abdicate these counties to his cousin and friend

Raymond Berengar III of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer III ''the Great'' was the count of Barcelona, Girona, and Ausona from 1086 (jointly with Berenguer Ramon II and solely from 1097), Besalú from 1111, Cerdanya from 1117, and count of Provence in the Holy Roman Empire, from 1112, a ...

. When he himself died seven years later without heirs, Cerdanya passed to Barcelona. 11th-century births 1118 deaths 12th-century Catalan people {{Europe-noble-stub