Ermengol X, Count of Urgell

Ermengol X. († 1314) was a Count of Urgell from the House of Cabrera. He was a son of the Count of Urgell Álvaro († 1267 ) and Cecile de Foix.

Life

When the father's death the family Cabrera was actually overthrown in Urgell, as the county was occupied because of its incoherent marital situation shortly before his death by King James I of Aragon. As a testamentary heir of his father had urged Ermengol from then on to a restitution of his heritage and therefore in 1274 joined the broad opposition of the Catalan nobility against the authority of the old king. This he continued even after the king's death in 1276 against his successor, Peter III. continued. He received it from his cousin, Count Roger Bernard III support. of Foix, who with a large army invaded in 1280 Urgell and conquered the city of Balaguer. There the allies of Peter III were. besieged for five weeks and finally forced in July of this year the task and captured.

Ermengol had afterwards with Peter III. reconciled, in 1283 he had in Bordeaux heard his entourage in the duel against the knights of Charles of Anjou. Has been returned to the possession of his father what extent it is unclear, but he probably should not have received back the county of Urgell in full. He had married Sibilla de Montcada, a sister of his father unloved first wife, which he obviously wanted to clean up his feud with the house Montcada. After her death he married a second time, children are not emerged from two marriages. Shortly before his death in 1314 Ermengol had his great-niece Teresa d' Entença determined to his testamentary heir, under the condition that it should be with the future King Alfonso IV married, with which the escheat of Urgell in the conglomerate of the Crown of Aragón de jure sealed should be.

Ermengol was buried in the Abbey of Santa María de Bellpuig at Avellanas. Here he had from 1300, the design of the tombs of his parents, his brother Alvar, his uncle Ermengol IX. and his Ahn Ermengol VII commissioned, which can be seen today, all at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( The Cloisters ) in New York City.