Guerau IV de Cabrera

Guerau de Cabrera († 1228 ) was from 1213 to 1228 the actual Count of Urgell. He was a son of the Viscount Ponç III. Cabrera and the Marquesa of Urgell.

Life

From his father Guerau de Cabrera inherited as Guerau IV in the late 1190s years the Vice- counties Cabrera and Àger that Stammbesitzungen the Cabrera family, who held it as a fief of the Counts of Urgell. About his mother, he was even related to the Graf family and therefore constituted a hereditary claim to this great county, especially his uncle, Count Ermengol VIII, only one underage daughter had. The death of Count in 1209, fueling the beginning of a century-old dispute over the ownership rights at Urgell. In order to defend itself against his claims that the late Count widow confided her heiress Aurembiaix immediately to the protection of King Peter II of Aragón, who engaged the child immediately with his own son Jacob, which Urgell would ultimately be absorbed into the conglomerate of the Crown of Aragon. Guerau was, however, willing to fight against the king of Urgell, but was defeated by the latter during autumn 1211 at Llorenç and imprisoned in Jaca. Thus, the succession dispute seemed decided in favor of Aurembiaix.

The situation, however, changed with the unexpected death of King Peter II at the battle of Muret in September 1213. Not only managed to escape during the immaturity of the new King James I from his prison in the Guerau now begins anarchy, but also with the support essential parts of the local nobility assuming de facto power in Urgell. In the following years Guerau was involved in fighting against various aristocratic factions and had to deal particularly with the house Montcada, which represented the interests of Aurembiaix. From the regent of the Crown of Aragon, he was tolerated as Count of Urgell and also King James I recognized him after the acquisition of personal government in three documents ( 1217, 1222, 1223 ) more readily than Count on. Always, however, only subject to the inheritance rights of Aurembiaix that had to be renegotiated once they gedächte demand it. Well in 1228 or shortly before, the grown- Aurembiaix joined the court of the king of, was his mistress and renewed their inheritance on Urgell. In order to clarify the situation between Guerau and his cousin, invited King James I. Guerau to arbitration, which, however, turned down Guerau and thereby told the king not to be once again so ordered a court. The county of Urgell as well as the family Cabrera were no direct vassals of the Kingdom of Aragon (now the Aragon region ), but members of the feudal Catalonia (see Catalan counties). King James I was as Count of Barcelona even a Catalan feudal lord, his position against its Catalan counterpart, however, represented only the character of a primus inter pares, who had no herrscherliche or judicial authority over the other counts.

On August 1, 1228 King James I and Aurembiaix therefore entered into a political alliance that had the reconquest of Urgell to the destination; Aurembiaix should then receive Urgell in fief from the hand of Jacob. As against Peter II Guerau was now ready to fight against James I, however, this inferior together with his son Ponç at the end, after the king had taken several of his strongholds such as Agramunt, Linyola and Balaguer. Before the year 1228 he died; Shortly before his death he had joined the Knights Templar. Urgell Cabrera went for the time being lost, but already in 1236 could Gueraus son of James I obtain the restitution of the county.

Family

Guerau was married to the Castilian nobles Eilo Pérez de Castro, their children were:

  • Ponç († 1243 ), Viscount of Àger and Count of Urgell.
  • Guerau V. ( † around 1242 ), Viscount of Cabrera.

Swell

  • Ex Gestis comitum barcinonensium et aragoniæ regum, ed. in: Recueil des Historiens the Gauls et de la France, vol 19 (1880 ), p 233
  • The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon. A translation of the medieval catalan Llibre dels Fets, ed. by Damian J. Smith and Helena Buffery (2010 ), § 35-44, pp. 56-64.
  • Jéronimo Zurita, Anales de la corona de Aragon, ed. Ángel López Canellas (1967 ), vol 1, Lib 2, § 86

Comments

  • Graf ( Urgell )
  • Templar
  • Born in the 12th century
  • Died in 1228
  • Man
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