House of Cabrera

The house Cabrera was a family of Catalan nobility, which is detectable from the early 11th century. Named the family after their family castle Cabrera, near the modern town of Santa Maria de Corcó in the comarca of Osona.

History

Progenitor of the House was a certain Gausfred which is documented in the year 1017 in an act of Bishop Wilfred of Besalu as lord of the castle of Cabrera ( Gauzfredi ex castro Caprerensi ). Meanwhile, alleged son married the heiress of Guerau I. Viscount Amat, which the house passed into the ownership of the Vice County Girona, which in turn was a fief of the Counts of Barcelona. The vice- comital title was then transferred to all the possessions of Cabrera, which was extended by the marriage of Ponç I. to the castle of Àger ( comarca of Noguera ), which was in the county of Urgell.

The Cabrera family had become established in the 12th century among the leading feudal Catalonia. Ponç Guerau II († 1162/63 ) had arrived at the court of the Emperor Alfonso VII of León - Castile to high dignitaries. In the 13th century the family had acquired a hereditary claim to the mighty county of Urgell, the Guerau IV († 1228 ) sought to impose by force, sparking a nearly century-old feud his family with the Crown of Aragon.

Master list (Simplified)

11th to 12th century

13th to 14th century

15th Century

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