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Birth:          1056 
Death:          28 Mar 1092 Gerb, Spain

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengol_IV,_Count_of_Urgell
Ermengol (or Armengol) IV (1056–1092), called el de Gerb or Gerp, was the Count of 
Urgell from 1066 to his death. He was the son of Ermengol III and Clemencia, 
daughter of Bernard II of Bigorre.

Ermengol inherited Urgell when he was only ten years old and ruled under the tutelage 
of the countess dowager, Sancha, third wife of his father, until he was twelve. During 
this brief minority, the nobility took the opportunity to plunder and occupy the comital 
demesne. It was not until 1075 that Ermengol was in control of his county and his 
nobles.

Ermengol was an active count. During his reign, Urgell profited economically by 
receiving exiles from Lleida and Fraga. In 1076, having brought the nobles to 
submission, he began a Reconquista of his own, taking the basin of the river Sió with 
the villages of Agramunt and Almenar that year and Linyola and Belcaire in 1091. He 
conquered Calassanç and built a castle at Gerb, Spain, where he died, in an effort to 
pave the way to the recapture of Balaguer, which occurred during the reign of his son, 
Ermengol V, in 1102.

Ermengol was a firm supporter of the contemporary Gregorian reform of the Church, 
which he introduced to Urgel.

In 1077, Ermengol married Lucy, daughter of Bernard I of La Marche. With her, he had 
his son and heir, the aforementioned Ermengol. In 1079, he remarried to Adelaide 
Bertrand, daughter of William Bertrand of Provence. She bore him one son, William, 
who inherited Forcalquier, and a daughter who died young.

Parents
____ Armengol (Ermengol) III (ABT 1033 - Feb 1065)
DE BIGORRE Clemencia (ABT 1027 - AFT 1065)

Siblings
____ Armengol (Ermengol) IV (1056 - 28 Mar 1092)

Marriage To ____ Adelaide (Adelais) (ABT 1054 - AFT 1129)
    m. 1079 

Notes
his 2d

Parents
OF PROVENCE William Bertrand (Guillaume)  II (ABT 1029 - 28 Jul 1094)
OF IVREA (CAVANEZ) Adelaide Adelais (BEF 1030 - AFT 12 Oct 1113)

Children by ____ Adelaide (Adelais) ABT 1054 - AFT 1129
____ William (Guillaume) III (ABT 1080 - Oct 1129)

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