Ermengol (or Armengol) II (died 1038), called the Pilgrim, was the Count of Urgell from 1011 to his death. He was the son of

Ermengol I, Count of Urgell Ermengol (or Armengol) I (974–1010), called ''el de Córdoba'', was the Count of Urgell from 992 to his death. He was the second son of Borrell II of Barcelona and his first wife, Letgarda. He was the second of the counts of Urgell and famous mai ...

and one of his wives. He was a child when he succeeded his father and was put under the regency of his uncle Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona until 1018. Ermengol went on a pilgrimage to the

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and died in 1038 at Jerusalem. With his uncle's help, Armengol began a successful war of reconquest to the south, taking Montmagastre, Alòs, Malagastre, Rubió, and Artesa. Around 1015, the bishop of Urgell, Armengol, repopulated the region of

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. Finally,

Arnau Mir de Tost Arnau Mir de Tost la, Arnallus Mironis or ''Arnaldus Mironis'', es, Arnaldo Mirón or ''Arnal Mirón'' (c. 1000 – after 1072) was a Catalan nobleman of Urgell, the lord of Llordà and viscount of Àger, a major figure in the eleventh-century R ...

occupied the castle of Àger in 1034. The taifa kings of Lleida and Zaragoza also granted lands to him and to the church of Urgell. He married before November 24, 1031, Constança, also called Velasquita.Fernández-Xesta, Ernesto. ''Relaciones familiares entre el condado de Urgel y Castilla y León''. ''Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía'', 2001. She survived until 1059 at least and acted as regent for her son

Ermengol III Ermengol (or Armengol) III (10321065), called ''el de Barbastro'', was the count of Urgell from 1038 to his death. He was the son of Ermengol II, Count of Urgell and his wife Velasquita "Constance", probably the daughter of Bernard I, Count of Bes ...

. She may have been the homonymous daughter of

Bernard I, Count of Besalú Bernard I ( 977 – 1020), called Taillefer (''Bernat Tallaferro''), was the Count of Besalú in Catalonia from 988 until his death. He was the eldest son of Oliba Cabreta and Ermengard of Empúries, and succeeded his father in Besalú while hi ...

and Countess Tota-Adelaide, named in her father’s will in October 1021.

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