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Birth:          ABT  880 
Death:          15 Oct  950 

Notes
d as a monk
m 920/925
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunifred_II,_Count_of_Urgell
Sunifred II (c. 870–948) was Count of Urgell. He was the son of Wilfred the Hairy of 
Urgell and succeeded his father on the latter's death in 897. He was still ruling as late 
as 940, when he appears with his wife Adelaide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunyer,_Count_of_Barcelona
Sunyer (c. 870 – 950) was count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona from 911 to 947.

Origins[edit]

He 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 of 
the Counties held by their father after his death in 897. He did not reign independently 
until his brother's death in 911.

Family Conflict[edit]

However, on the death of his uncle, Count Radulf I of Besalú, in 913 or 920, a conflict 
emerged between Sunyer and his brother Count Miró II of Cerdanya over the 
succession of the County of Besalú. In exchange for the total renunciation of all 
claims on the County of Barcelona, Sunyer gave up his claim on Besalú.

Sunyer was apparently married by 917, and later appears with wife Richilda, 
speculated to have been a daughter of the Count of Rouergue based on the 
introduction of novel names into the family. They had four sons and a daughter: 
Ermengol, Miró, Borrell, Adelaide (also called Bonafilla), and Wifred.

Politics[edit]

Sunyer made important efforts with domestic politics, protected the church and 
strengthened its institutions by giving it more land and income. He also continued to 
encourage the repopulation of the county of Ausona.

He abandoned the defensive stance adopted by his predecessors and took up the 
fight actively against the Moorish states to the south. Battles were fought at Lleida 
and Tarragona. At the same time he managed to retain diplomatic relations with 
Córdoba, which had increasingly lost control of its northern provinces. In 912, 
Muhammad al-Tawil, the Wali of Huesca and Lleida, attacked and destroyed the 
Barcelonian army under Sunyer in the Tàrrega valley. However Sunyer's counterattack 
in 914 successfully pushed them back and resulted in the death of al-Tawil. He 
subsequently repopulated the county of Penedès, which had been the scene of many 
conflicts between the Frankish and Muslim empires, as far as Olèrdola (929).

From 936 to 937 he led an expedition against the Muslims. As a result of this 
successful campaign many of the enemy forces were killed, including the Qadi of 
Valencia. The Moors temporarily abandoned Tarragona (which became a no-man's 
land), while Tortosa was forced to pay a tribute to the Count. This gain was short-lived 
however, as Abd ar-Rahman III sent envoys and a fleet to Barcelona in 940, forcing 
Sunyer into a subservient alliance and to abandon a marriage pact he had reached 
with king García Sánchez I of Pamplona, who was to marry (or had already married) 
Sunyer's daughter.

In 947 Sunyer retired to monastic life and ceded the government of his realms to his 
sons: Borrell II and Miró I. He died in the Monastery of La Grassa (in Conflent) in 950.

Parents
____ Wilfred I "el Velloso" (ABT  840 - AFT 21 Aug  897)
____ Widnille (Guinidilda) (ABT  863 - )

Siblings
____ Gunhilde (Guidenlide) (ABT  878 - )
____ Miro II (ABT  878 - Oct  927)
____ Sunifred (Sunyer) (ABT  880 - 15 Oct  950)
BORREL Wilfred II (ABT  885 - 26 Apr  911)

Marriage To DE ROUERGUE Richilde (ABT  897 - AFT 12 Nov  954)
    m. ABT  923 

Notes

Parents
____ Ermengaud (Armengol) (Ermengol) (ABT  870 -  937)
____ Adelaide (ABT  870 - )

Children by DE ROUERGUE Richilde ABT  897 - AFT 12 Nov  954
____ Borrell II (ABT  940 - 30 Sep  992)

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