Ermengol or Armengol II (died 1038),[1] called the Pilgrim, was the Count of Urgell[2] from 1011 to his death. He was the son of Ermengol I, Count of Urgell and his second wife, Guisla. Still a child when he succeeded his father, who was killed in battle against the Moors, he was put under the regency of his uncle Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona until 1018.
Ermengol II, Count of Urgell
Ermengol receiving the homage and fealty of Arnau Mir de Tost for the castle of Àger. From the Liber feudorum maior
Ermengol II married Constança of Besalú, also called Velasquita, before 24 November 1031.[4] She survived until at least 1059 and acted as regent for her son Ermengol III. She may have been the homonymous daughter of Bernard I, Count of Besalú and Countess Tota-Adelaide, named in her father’s will in October 1021.
Ermengol later went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and died in 1038 at Jerusalem.
Referencesedit
^His death is mentioned in Gesta Comitum Barcinonensium.
^Monfar, Diego; Bofarull, Pròsper de. Historia de los Condes de Urgel. Barcelona: Establiment litográfico y tipográfico de D. José Eusebio Monfort, 1853.
^The Bishop Builds a Bridge: Sanctity and Power in the Medieval Pyrenees. Jeffrey A. Bowman, The Catholic Historical Review, 7–8
^Fernández-Xesta, Ernesto. Relaciones familiares entre el condado de Urgel y Castilla y León. Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía, 2001.
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