Counts of Urgell

This is a list of the counts of Urgell.

ca. 789-870 Counts appointed by the Carolingians

• 789-820 Borell, count of Urgell and Cerdanya
• 820-824 Aznar I Galíndez, count of Aragon, was given Borell's counties while he was exiled from Aragon
• 824-834 Galindo I Aznárez
• 834-848 Sunifred I (Sunyer I)
• 848-870 Salomón (or Mirón)

870-992 Counts from the House of Barcelona

• 870-897 Wilfred the Hairy, count of Barcelona, Girona-Osona and Urgell-Cerdanya
• 898-948 Sunifred (Sunyer) II, born after 897, died a monk on October 15 953
• 948-966 Miró de Barcelona, born ca. 940
• 966-September 30 992 Borell II, count of Barcelona, Girona, Osona

992-1213 Counts from the House of Barcelona-Urgell

• 992-September 1, 1010 Armengol I el de Córdoba, born 975, killed in battle at Córdoba in 1010
• 1010-1038 Armengol II el Peregrí ("the Pilgrim"), born 1009, died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, 1038
• 1038-1065 Armengol III el de Barbastre, born ca. 1033, killed at Barbastro in February or March 1065
• 1065-March 11, 1092 Armengol IV el de Gerp, born ca. 1056
• 1092-1102 Armengol V el de Mollerussa, born 1078/1079, died in Mollerussa
• 1102-1153/1154 Armengol VI el de Castella, born 1096
• 1153/1154-1184 Armengol VII el de València
• 1184-1208/1209 Armengol VIII el de Sant Hilari
• 1208/1209-1213 Countess Aurembiaix (first time) under regency of Peter II of Aragon

1213-1228 Counts from the House of Cabrera

• 1213-1228 Guerau I of Urgell, IV of Cabrera (usurper)

1228-1236 Counts from the House of Barcelona-Urgell

• 1228-1231 Countess Aurembiaix (second time), from 1229 with her husband, Prince Pedro, son of Sancho I of Portugal. She died in 1231
• 1231-1236 King James I of Aragon

1236-1314 Counts from the House of Cabrera

• 1236-1243 Ponç I
• 1243 Armengol IX
• 1243-1268 Álvaro el Castellà (the Castilean)
• 1268-1314 Armengol X

1314-1413 Counts from the House of Barcelona

• November 10 1314-1327 King Alfonso IV of Aragon, died 1366
• 1327-1347 Jaume I of Urgell, Prince of Aragon, born 1321, poisoned in Barcelona in 1347
• 1347-1408 Pere of Urgell, born 1340, died at Balaguer, 1408
• 1408-October 31 1413 Jaume II of Urgell. On October, 31, 1413 the last count of Urgell and heir to the Catalan throne surrendered to the Trastámara King Fernando de Antequera. The county of Urgell was dissolved. Count Jaume was murdered in jail in Játiva on June 1 1433.

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