Historical significance
Wilfred was the CatalanOrigins
Wilfred was ofInvestiture
The Bellonid lineage lost its power when Sunifred and Sunyer died in 848, but was revived slightly by the appointment of Dela and Sunyer II, sons of Sunyer I, to the countship ofIntervention in Ausona
After the investiture of 878, Wilfred's lands stretched from Urgell and Cerdanya in theEcclesiastical reform
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 nearbyCarolingian crisis
When Louis the Stammerer died in 879 after a two-year reign, the kingdom was divided between his two young sons.The crisis and the counts
In the great tradition of their family, Wilfred, Miró, Dela, and Sunyer II maintained their loyalty to the Carolingian monarchs until 888 and the death of Charles the Fat. Upon the death of Louis the Stammerer, however, this loyalty became largely nominal. When Louis's sons Louis and Carloman marched against Boso, King ofDeath
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 Cardona, Bergueda, and Vall de Lord; some were even south of the RiverSuccession
The weakening of Frankish royal authority in the Hispanic March is principally the result of the establishment of hereditary succession of the counties rather than by choice of the monarch. In 895, Miró the Old died and his county of Roussillon passed, without interference from King Odo, to Sunyer II of Empúries. In fact, Wilfred himself was never confirmed by any monarch as Count of Ausona. The importance of this development in theWilfred and Catalonia
Wilfred the Hairy has become a figure of importance for contemporaryFamily
Wilfred married Guinidilda, daughter of Baldwin I, Margrave of Flanders and granddaughter of Charles the Bald. They had the following issue: * Emma, Abbess of Sant Joan de les Abadesses, d.942 * Wilfred II Borrel, Wilfred ΙΙ Borrell, Count of Barcelona, Girona, Ausona * Sunifred ΙΙ, Count of Urgell * Sunyer, succeeded Wilfred II * Miró II of Cerdanya, Miró ΙΙ, Count of Cerdanya * Rodolfo, Bishop of Urgel, Abbot of Ripoll, d.940 * Riquilla * Ermesinde, d. after 925 * Cixilona, a nun, d. 945 * [parentage not proven] Guinidilda; married Count Raymond II of Toulouse (d.923)Appearance
The ''Gesta comitum barcinonensium'' reported that "...[h]e was hairy in places not normally so in men..."Notes
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{{Commons category, Wilfred I, Count of Barcelona *''La família catalana dels comtes de Carcassona. Genealogia de Guifré el Pilós dins d’Els primers comtes Catalans''. Barcelona, Ediciones Vicens Vives, 1958. Pages 13–29. *Collins, Roger. "Charles the Bald and Wifred the Hairy". ''Charles the Bald: Court and Kingdom''. edd. M. T. Gibson and Janet N. Nelson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. pp. 169–189. Reprinted in ''Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain''. Variorum, 1992. {{ISBN, 0-86078-308-1. {{s-start {{s-bef, rows = 2 , before = Solomon I of Urgel, Solomon I {{s-ttl, title =