Ponce de Cabrera I

• Preferred Name: Ponce de Cabrera I^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Conde de Urgel with note: From Name Field
  
• FSID: G8T3-FZP
  
• Death: ABT 1243
  
• Birth: ABT 1216 in Girona, Girona, Catalunya, Spain at LATI: N1.9781 LONG: E0.8203
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Ponce I, Count of Urgel (died 1243) was Count of Urgell in Catalonia from 1236 until his death.
  
  He was the first Count of Urgell from the Cabrera family.
  
  He also held the Viscounty of Àger.
  
  He was succeeded as Count by his two sons.
  
  Family
  He married to María Girón and had issue:
  
  Ponce, died young;
  Ermengol IX c. 1235-1243, count of Urgell, viscount of Cabrera & Àger.
  Álvaro (Catalan: Álvar) 1239-1268, count of Urgell, viscount of Cabrera & Àger.
  Guerau 1242-1271;
  Eleanor (Catalan: Leonor);
  Marquessa (Catalan: Marquesa).
  
  === ! Vol. 3 Tafel 134 ===
  ! Vol. 3 Tafel 134

• m. ABT 1233 in of,, URGEL, Catalonia, Spain

1. Title: A History of Aragon and Catalonia
   Author: Chaytor, H. J. A History of Aragon and Catalonia. London: Methuen, 1933.
   Publication: Name: https://libro.uca.edu/chaytor/achistory.htm;
   Page: It contains relevant information
   
2. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Note: PONCE de Cabrera, son of GUERAU [IV] Señor de Cabrera, Vescomte de Cabrera, Vescomte de Ager & his wife Eilo Pérez de Castro ([1216]-1243). The Gesta comitum Barcinonensium records that "Pontius de Capraria filius eius" succeeded to the county of Urgell after the death of "Geraldus de Capraris", adding that he died in 1243[2251]. He succeeded his father's cousin Aurembiaix as Comte de Urgell in 1231, recognised as such by Jaime I King of Aragón in 1236. The Crónica de San Juan de la Peña records the death in 1243 of "conte de Urgel Ponz de Cabrera fillo de Guerau de Cabrera"[2252]. m firstly AUREMBIAIX de Montcada, daughter of ---. m secondly ([1237]) MARÍA González Girón, daughter of GONZALO Rodríguez Girón & his second wife Marquesa Pérez de Villalobos. Comte Ponce & his second wife had six children: 1. PONCE de Urgell (-young). 2. ARMENGOL [IX] de Urgell ([1238/39]-[1243]). Zurita records that "su hijo mayor...Armengol" succeeded in the county of Urgell after the death of “Conde Don Ponce de Cabrera” but lived “pocos dias”[2253]. He succeeded his father in 1243 as Comte de Urgell. 3. LEONOR de Urgell . m RAMON de Montcada, son of --- (-[1286/90]). 4. MARQUESA de Urgell . m GUILLEM de Peralta, son of ---. 5. ALVARO de Urgell (Mar 1239-Foix Mar 1267). 6. GUERAU de Urgell (1242-after 1271).