- Ermengol X of Urgell
Ermengol X (1254 – 1314) was the
Count of Urgel andViscount of Àger from 1268, though his succession was disputed. He was the son ofÁlvaro of Urgell and his second wife, Cecilia, daughter ofRoger-Bernard II of Foix .As he inherited Urgel at the age of fourteen, he was originally under the regency of
Roger-Bernard III of Foix . However, the relatives, of the house ofMontcada ofBéarn , of his father's first wife, Constance, opposed his succession. At the instigation of the house of Foix, Ermengol participated in the coalition of rebels againstPeter III of Aragon in 1276, but in the succeeding two years he recovered all the territory of his county which had unto then been in the hands of his rivals: the Montcada, the king of Aragon, or the viscount ofCardona . In 1278, he met the king atAgramunt and received Urgel as a fief.Ermengol attached himself thereafter to Peter's entourage, tavelling with the king to
Sicily in 1282 andBordeaux in 1283. When Peter died in 1295, Ermengol became a close companion and adviser of his sons Alfonso III, whom he aided in conquering theKingdom of Majorca in 1287, and James II.Before dying at
La Llitera without descendants, he named the second son of James II, Alfonso, as his heir on the condition that he should marry his niece,Teresa de Entença , his legal heir. With his death, theHouse of Cabrera came to an end.
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