William I Raymond ( ca, Guillem Ramon; oc, Guilhem Ramon) (1068–1095) was the

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' ...

and

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 ...

from the year of his birth till that of his death, giving up Berga a year earlier to his son

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 ...

. He was the son of

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 me ...

, who died a short while after his birth. He married Sancha, daughter of

Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer I (1023–1076), called the Old ( ca, el Vell, french: le Vieux), was Count of Barcelona in 1035–1076. He promulgated the earliest versions of a written code of Catalan law, the Usages of Barcelona. Born in 1024, he succee ...

, while they were both very young. William became the tutor of his nephew, the future

Ramon Berenguer III 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, ...

. 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.

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William II 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 ...

, Count of Cerdanya. *

Bernard, Count of Cerdanya Bernard William ( ca, Bernat Guillem; oc, Bernat Guilhem) (died 1118) was the Count of Berga (from 1094, as Bernard II) and Count of Cerdanya (from 1109). A son of William I of Cerdanya and Sancha of Barcelona, he inherited Berga from his father ...

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Liber feudorum Ceritaniae The ''Liber feudorum Ceritaniae'' is, as its Latin title indicates, a book (''liber'', in fact a chartulary) registering the fiefs (''feudi'') within the counties of Cerdagne (''Ceritania''), Roussillon and Conflent, and the feudal obligations of t ...

'', depicting a convention between Folch,

Bishop of Urgell The Diocese of Urgell is a diocese in Catalonia (Spain) and Andorra in the historical County of Urgell,

, and William, concerning the castle of Cardona, of which Folch was lord. See als
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