• Wilfred or Wifred, called the Hairy (in Catalan: Guifré el Pilós), (died 11 August 897) was Count of Urgell (from 870), Cerdanya (from 870), Barcelona...
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    1410. They descend from the Bellonids, the descendants of Wilfred the Hairy. They inherited most of the Catalan counties by the thirteenth century and...
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  • Frieden in German). Wilfred the Hairy (died 897), a count in what is now Spain Wilfred Baddeley (1872–1929), British tennis player Wilfred Benítez (born 1958)...
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    religion". In 878, he gave the counties of Barcelona, Girona, and Besalú to Wilfred the Hairy. His final act was to march against the invading Vikings, but...
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    Santa Maria de Ripoll (category Christian monasteries established in the 9th century)
    in 888 by Count Wilfred the Hairy (called Guifré el Pilós in Catalan) who used it as a centre to bring about the repopulation of the region after conquering...
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  • Lubb ibn Muhammad (category People from the Emirate of Córdoba)
    army mortally wounded the count Wilfred the Hairy, who died later on August 11 from his injuries, probably not too far away from the castle of Aura. Lubb's...
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    comes up representing Wilfred of Arrià, mythical father of Wilfred the Hairy, who wears a barred shield. In this way, when the son of Peter IV of Aragon...
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    roughly the same size as the current comarca of Garrotxa but sometime extended as far as Corbières, Aude, in France. Wilfred the Hairy, credited with the unification...
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    Sunyer, Count of Barcelona (category 10th-century people from the County of Barcelona)
    was the son of Wilfred the Hairy and younger brother of the previous count of Barcelona, Wilfred II Borrel. He worked jointly with his brother in the government...
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    Raid of 897 against Barcelona (category Battles involving the Emirate of Córdoba)
    forces would be still fighting against the Franks, while in retreat. Wilfred the Hairy was succeeded by his son Wilfred II, and Barcelona was not seized by...
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