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County Of Osona
The County of Osona, also Ausona (, ; ), was one of the Catalan counties of the ''Marca Hispanica'' in the Early Middle Ages, Early and High Middle Ages. It was based around the capital city of Vic, Catalonia, Vic (''Vicus'') and the corresponding Diocese of Vic, diocese, whose territory was roughly the current ''comarca'' of Osona. The ancient diocese of Osona was Umayyad conquest of Hispania, sacked by the Arabs in the mid eighth century (c. 750–755). Its Reconquista, reconquest by Christian powers began in 798; in that year Louis the Pious, Louis of Aquitaine ordered Borrell of Ausona, Borrell, a Visigoths, Goth, to enter the abandoned region and repair the castles of Vic, Cardona, Spain, Cardona, and Casserès. Vic was in Frankish hands by 799. After the successful siege of Barcelona in 801, Borrell, already Count of Cerdanya and Count of Urgel, Urgell, received Osona as a countship from his liege lord, King Louis. On Borrell's death, Osona was granted to Rampon, Count of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Of Osona
The County of Osona, also Ausona (, ; ), was one of the Catalan counties of the ''Marca Hispanica'' in the Early and High Middle Ages. It was based around the capital city of Vic (''Vicus'') and the corresponding diocese, whose territory was roughly the current ''comarca'' of Osona. The ancient diocese of Osona was sacked by the Arabs in the mid eighth century (c. 750–755). Its reconquest by Christian powers began in 798; in that year Louis of Aquitaine ordered Borrell, a Goth, to enter the abandoned region and repair the castles of Vic, Cardona, and Casserès. Vic was in Frankish hands by 799. After the successful siege of Barcelona in 801, Borrell, already Count of Cerdanya and Urgell, received Osona as a countship from his liege lord, King Louis. On Borrell's death, Osona was granted to Rampon, Count of Barcelona. After the rebellion of 826, during which Guillemó and Aissó succeeded in taking it with help from the Emirate of Córdoba, Osona remained depopulat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aissó
Ayxun or Aissó was a nobleman who led a revolt in Barcelona, Ausona, and Girona in 826 to 827. His identity is uncertain. Aissó is thought to have been either a Goth and former lieutenant of the deposed Count Berà, or an Arab ( Ayxun ibn Sulayman ibn Yaqdhan al-Arabí), the son of Sulayman al-Arabi who had been imprisoned in Aachen after being captured by Frankish forces at Girona. After Bernat of Septimania was anointed Count of Barcelona, Aisso joined the revolt against the new count. Only the castle of Roda de Ter, in the county of Ausona, resisted and was destroyed by revolters. Many Goth nobles joined Aissó and Guillemó (or Guillemundus) son of Berà and Count of Rasez and Conflent. Aissó raided the County of Cerdanya and the region of Vallés from his base in the centre of Catalonia. The young Count Bernat requested and received some help from the Emperor, as well as from some local Goth noblemen or "Hispani" (826). Faced with this opposition, Aissó appealed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillemundus
Guillemundus (also ''Guillemó'') (died 827) was count of Razès and Conflent, in what is now southern France. He was the son of Bera, Count of Barcelona. He received these counties from delegation of his father in 812. Guillemundus retained the counties when Bera was exiled to Rouen in 821/22. In 826 he joined the revolt of Aissó Ayxun or Aissó was a nobleman who led a revolt in Barcelona, Ausona, and Girona in 826 to 827. His identity is uncertain. Aissó is thought to have been either a Goth and former lieutenant of the deposed Count Berà, or an Arab ( Ayxun ibn Sula ... and, routed, fled to Córdoba. References 827 deaths Counts of Razès Year of birth unknown {{Europe-noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rampon, Count Of Barcelona
Rampon (Rampó) was the second count of the Catalan counties of Barcelona and Osona from 820 until his death in 825. Rampon was given the county of Barcelona, by Louis the Pious, King of Aquitaine, following Bera's accusation of treason, trial by combat, and his subsequent defeat. During his time as count of Barcelona, Rampon founded monasteries, all of Frankish origin, thus spreading Carolingian hegemony throughout the Spanish March. Rampon was ruler of Barcelona, Girona, and Besalú with the title of Count, but possibly also Margrave; the latter title was reserved only for the rulers of border counties. In 821, the Court at Aachen ordered Rampon to attack Muslim territory, an order which he carried out in 822, ransacking land up to the river Segre. The same year, Louis the Pious at the request of Rampon, granted privileges to the monastery Saint-Stephen of Banyoles. Rampon died in 825. However, it was not until an assembly in Aachen in February 826 that Louis designated his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Of Urgel
This is a list of the counts of Urgell, a county of the Principality of Catalonia in the 10th through 13th centuries. {{circa, 798–870 Counts appointed by the Carolingians *798–820 Borrell, count of Urgell and Cerdanya *820–824 Aznar Galíndez I, count of Aragon, was given Borrell's counties while he was exiled from Aragon *824–834 Galindo Aznárez I *834–848 Sunifred I *848–870 Solomon (or Miró) 870–992 Counts from the House of Barcelona *870–897 Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona, Girona-Osona and Urgell-Cerdanya *898–948 Sunifred II *948–966 Miró de Barcelona, born c. 940 *966–30 September 992 Borrell II, count of Barcelona, Girona, Osona 992–1213 Counts from the House of Barcelona-Urgell *992 – 1 September 1010 Ermengol I ''el de Còrdova'' ("of Cordoba"), born 975, killed in battle at Córdoba in 1010 *1010–1038 Ermengol II ''el Peregrí'' ("the Pilgrim"), born 1009, died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, 1038 *1038–1065 Ermengol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Of Cerdanya
The County of Cerdanya (, ; ; , ) was one of the Catalan counties formed in the last decades of the 8th century by the Franks in the ''Marca Hispanica''. The original Cerdanya consisted of the valley of the upper Segre. Today Cerdanya is a Catalan ''comarca''. Origins The region had been conquered by the Moors in the early 8th century. In 731, the Moorish governor of Cerdanya allied himself with Odo the Great by marrying his daughter, at Odo's insistence, in order to secure his southern frontier from further Muslim expansion.Lewis, 22 and n6. Cerdanya was at this time predominantly Basque, and Odo had a pro-Basque policy in the face of Charles Martel and the Franks. Moorish rule was soon purely nominal; the Cerdanya was conquered by Charlemagne Charlemagne ( ; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was List of Frankish kings, King of the Franks from 768, List of kings of the Lombards, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of what is now known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardona, Spain
Cardona () is a town in the Spanish region of Catalonia, in the province of Barcelona; about northwest of the city of Barcelona, on a hill almost surrounded by the river Cardener, a branch of the Llobregat. To the east of the town, the river has been diverted through a tunnel has been dug through a spur, leaving a loop of dry river bed near the saltmine. Near the town is an extensive deposit of rock salt. The salt forms a mountain mass (called ''Muntanya de Sal'') covered by a thick bed of a reddish-brown clay, and apparently resting on a yellowish-grey sandstone. It is generally more or less translucent, and large masses of it are quite transparent. The hill has been worked like a mine since Roman times; pieces cut from it have been carved by artists in Cardona into images, crucifixes and many articles of an ornamental kind. Main sights *The Castle of Cardona, which is set high on a hill and contains a Paradores, Parador hotel. *The 11th-century Romanesque architecture, Romanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visigoths
The Visigoths (; ) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity. The Visigoths first appeared in the Balkans, as a Roman-allied Barbarian kingdoms, barbarian military group united under the command of Alaric I. Their exact origins are believed to have been diverse but they probably included many descendants of the Thervingi who had moved into the Roman Empire beginning in 376 and had played a major role in defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. Relations between the Romans and Alaric's Visigoths varied, with the two groups making treaties when convenient, and warring with one another when not. Under Alaric, the Visigoths invaded Italy and sack of Rome (410), sacked Rome in August 410. The Visigoths were subsequently settled in southern Gaul as ''foederati'' to the Romans, a relationship that was established in 418. This developed as an independent kingdom with its Capital city, capital at Toulou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borrell Of Ausona
Borrell I was the first count of Cerdanya, Urgell, and Osona from between 797 and 799 to his death in 820. Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals (1986). ''El domini carolingi a Catalunya''. . He was a Visigoth nobleman, probably from ''Cerretana'' (Cerdanya). In the final years of the eighth century, the Franks under Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine, were subduing the ''Marca Hispanica'' and expanding southwards into Moorish territory. When Urgell and Cerdanya were subdued around 798, Borrel was appointed count. He took a very active part in the subsequent conquest of Osona in 799 and the successful siege of Barcelona in 801. He may have been named count in Osona as a reward for his services. In 804 and 805, he participated in the expeditions to Tortosa, but not in the subsequent campaigns of 807, 808, and 809. He died in 820 and Osona was given to Rampon, Count of Barcelona Rampon (Rampó) was the second count of the Catalan counties of Barcelona and Osona fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
