Miro, Count Of Barcelona
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Miro, Count of Barcelona (died Barcelona, 966) was count of Barcelona, Gerona and Osona from 947 to 966. He was the son of
Sunyer, Count of Barcelona Sunyer ( 870 – 950) was count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona from 911 to 947. Origins He was the son of Wilfred the Hairy and younger brother of the previous count of Barcelona, Wilfred II Borrel. He worked jointly with his brother in th ...
and his second wife, Riquilda. When his father stood down in 947 he became governor jointly with his brother
Borrell II, Count of Barcelona Borrell II (died 993) was the count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona from 945 and count of Urgell from 948. Borrell was first seen acting as count during the reign of his father Sunyer II in 945 at the consecration of the nunnery church of Sa ...
. Borrell took charge of military and foreign affairs and Miro took charge of domestic affairs. Miro made donations to the monasteries of San Cugat del Vallès, Sant Joan de las Abadeses i Ripoll, and during his reign it is believed that he began construction of the
Rec Comtal The Rec Comtal of Barcelona was a hydraulic structure of first magnitude that was an irrigation canal until the 19th century being one of the main water supplies of the city, which was used for irrigation and also as hydraulic force to operate th ...
, which took water to Barcelona.


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Count of Barcelona The count of Barcelona (, , , ) was the ruler of the County of Barcelona and also, by extension and according with the Usages of Barcelona, Usages and Catalan constitutions, of the Principality of Catalonia as Prince#Prince as generic for ruler, p ...
* Catalan counties Counts of Barcelona 966 deaths Year of birth unknown 10th-century people from the County of Barcelona {{catalonia-bio-stub