Wifred II, Count of Cerdanya

Wilfried II (Catalan Guifré; * 970, † 1050) was a Count of Cerdanya, Conflent and hill from the house of Barcelona.

He was a son of Oliba cabretas († 990 ), from whom he inherited Cerdanya and Conflent while Besalu and Hill I. Taillefer and Oliba went the abbot to his brothers Bernard. When the father entered 988 in the monastery of Montecassino, he put his underage sons under the protection of Pope John XV. After Oliba 1003 had taken his clerical career, Wilfried could also take over Berga.

In the year 1001, the sixth year of the reign of King Robert II, Wilfried founded the abbey of Sant Martí del Canigó, which was consecrated on November 10, 1009 by his brother Oliba. For his county he fought for the liberation of the jurisdiction of the diocese of Urgell, this is also in conflict with the Holy Ermengol. In 1003 Wilfried fought on the side of his brother Bernard I of Besalu, Ermengol I of Urgell and Raymond Borrell of Barcelona in the victorious battle of Torà ( Lleida ) against the Moors of al -Andalus.

On November 8, 1035 Wilfried resigned his will in which he expressed the task of worldly life in favor of a monk in the Canigó. He died in 1050 and was also buried.

Wilfried's first wife's name was Gisela, who was first mentioned in a donation to Canigó of 12 June 1006. On March 20, 1020, she wrote her will. His second wife Isabel is called between the years 1025 and 1038. From the marriage nine children were born:

• Raimund Wilfried (1035-1068), Count of Cerdanya and Conflent.
• Wilfried († .1079 ), Archbishop of Narbonne.
• Berengar († 1053 ), Bishop of Elne.
• Arduin († 1050).
• William Wilfred († 1075 ), Bishop of Urgell.
• Bernard ( † 1050), Count of Berga.
• Berengar († 1093 ), Count of Berga, Bishop of Girona.
• Fe (Fides, Foy ), ∞ with Hugo, Count of Rouergue.

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• Graf ( Berga )
• Graf ( Cerdanya )
• Born 970
• Died 1050
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