of Besalú in Catalonia from 988 until his death. He was the eldest son of Oliba Cabreta and Ermengard of Empúries, and succeeded his father in Besalú while...

later scholars. Oliba was born circa 971 to an affluent family in the Spanish March. His father was Oliba Cabreta, the count of Besalú, Cerdanya, Berga...

Oliba Cabreta (c. 920 – 990) was the count of Cerdanya from 965 and count of Besalú from 984 until his abdication in 988. He was the fourth son of Miró...

Carolingian times. Oliba received royal lands and rights in Besalú from Rudolph in 929, indicating the presence and memory of the royal fisc in Besalú. Wilfred...

the word BISIL-DVNO (Bisilduno, of Besalú). Bernard did grant to the church a tenth of the money minted in Besalú in perpetuity, whether of gold or of...

Count of Besalú, Wifred II, Count of Cerdanya and Abbot Oliba. Ermengarda was daughter of Gausbert, Count of Empúries. She married count Oliba Cabreta...

counties of Miro were reunited (984) under one ruler: Oliba Cabreta. His county comprised Besalú, the Fenouillèdes, Capcir, the Baridà, the Valley of Ribes...

Oliba Cabreta and Ermengard of Empúries. When his father abdicated in 988 to become a monk in Monte Cassino, Wifred's brother Bernard received Besalú...

the lands of his enemy Oliba II in Carcassonne and Razès. Shortly after, however, Bernard was assassinated by a vassal of (Oliba's former ally) Bernard...

Miró III of Cerdanya and II of Besalú, Bonfill (920 in Girona – 984), was count of Cerdanya and Besalú (968–984). The third son of Miro II and Ava, he...