Ermengol V 'el de Mollerussa' d'Urgell, comte d'Urgell

X Conde de Urgel (1092-1102) y Señor de Valladolid.

Ermengol V, Count of Urgell

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Ermengol or Armengol V (1078 – 1102), called El de Mollerussa (He of Mollerussa), was the Count of Urgell from 1092 to his death. He was the son of Ermengol IV and his first wife, Lucy of La Marche.

He passed the majority of his life in Castile, where he met and married María Ansúrez, daughter of Pedro Ansúrez, lord of Valladolid, in 1095. During his long absences in Castile, he left the government of Urgell to Guerau II of Cabrera. He died young of unknown causes, but certainly as the result of Moorish reprisals following the first ephemeral Christian reconquest of Balaguer in 1101. He died at León.

His children were:

Ermengol VI (1096–1154)

Peter

Mayor, married Pedro Frolaz de Pega, count of Trastámara

Theresa, married William I of Cerdanya

Stephanie (died 1143)

Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell

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Ermengol VII or Armengol VII (died 1184) was the Count of Urgell from 1154 to his death. He was called el de Valencia.

The son of Ermengol VI and his first wife, Arsenda of Cabrera, in 1157, Ermengol VII married Dulce, daughter of Roger III of Foix and Jimena de Osona, who acted as his regent during his absences in Castile. Without any possibility of expansion into surrounding territory, Ermengol was attracted to the Castilian possessions that he inherited from his grandmother. Thus, a major part of his reign was spent in the vassalage of Ferdinand II of León, to whom he was majordomo and tenant of many castles in Extremadura.

Around 1166, he founded the canons of Bellpuig de les Avellanes. In 1163, he granted a charter to the people of Agramunt and in 1174 to Balaguer. In 1164, he coined his own comital currency in Agramunt.

He died at Requena and left Urgell to his son Ermengol VIII. He also left a daughter, Marquesa, who married Ponç II of Cabrera in 1194.

Pasó buena parte de su vida en Castilla donde se casó en 1095 con María Pérez, hija del conde Pedro Ansúrez, señor de Valladolid, y la condesa Eylo Alfonso.

Por sus largas estancias en Castilla dejó el gobierno del condado de Urgel a Guerau II de Cabrera.

Falleció el 14 de septiembre de 1102 combatiendo a los musulmanes en Mollerusa. Cuando iba entrar en la batalla, pidió que si moría, su cuerpo fuese enterrado en la iglesia de Solsona. Se cumplió su voluntad según consta por una donación hecha por sus suegros Pedro y Eylo en 1106.