Peter II ( es, Pedro, ; 1340 - June 1408) was
Count of Urgell from 1347 until his death.
Biography
He was the eldest son of count
James I of Urgell
James I (1321 – 15 November 1347), the eighteenth Count of Urgell, was the fourth son of Alfonso IV King of Aragon and Teresa d'Entença & Cabrera, 17th Countess of Urgell.
Biography
James was born in Zaragoza in 1321. His older brother, P ...
and
Cecilia of Comminges, daughter of the count of
Comminges
The Comminges (; Occitan/ Gascon: ''Comenge'') is an ancient region of southern France in the foothills of the Pyrenees, corresponding closely to the arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens in the department of Haute-Garonne. This natural region is norma ...
and viscount of
Turenne, Bernard VII. At the death of his father, he inherited his titles of Urgell, viscount of
Àger, baron of Entença and
Antillón; as he was underage, his mother acted initially as tutor.
In 1363 he married Beatrice of Cardona, daughter of
Ugo Folch de Cardona. In 1376 he remarried to
Margaret Paleologa, daughter of
John II, Marquess of Montferrat.
In 1396, after
Martin of Aragon
Martin the Humane (29 July 1356 – 31 May 1410), also called the Elder and the Ecclesiastic, was King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica and Count of Barcelona from 1396 and King of Sicily from 1409 (as Martin II). He failed to secure th ...
had become king of Aragon, he faced
Matthew, Count of Foix, who had invaded Aragon, and pushed him back. He died at
Balaguer in 1408.
His son with Margaret Paleologa was
James II, Count of Urgell
James II (in Catalan ''Jaume II d'Urgell'' or ''Jaume el Dissortat'' "James the unlucky", in Spanish ''Jayme II el desafortunado'') (1380 – 1 June 1433) was the Count of Urgell (1408–1413), Viscount of Àger, and lord of Antillón, Alcolea de ...
.
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1340 births
1408 deaths
Counts of Urgell
14th-century Catalan people