The County of Ribagorza or Ribagorça (
Aragonese: Condato de Ribagorza,
Catalan: Comtat de Ribagorça,
Latin: Comitatus Ripacurtiae) was a medieval county on the southern side of the
Pyrenees, including the northeast of modern
Aragón and part of the northwest of modern
Catalonia, both in
Spain. It was originally the independent creation of a local dynasty, later absorbed into the
Kingdom of Navarre and then into the
Crown of Aragon. It had a strong historical connection with the neighboring counties of
Sobrarbe (to the west) and
Pallars (to the east). Its territory consisted of the valleys of the rivers
Ésera,
Isábena, and
Noguera Ribagorzana. The seat of its counts was at
Benabarre. Other notable towns include
Benasque,
Graus and
Pont de Suert. Today the western portion of the county roughly corresponds to the
Aragonesecomarca of
Ribagorza, with its administrative centre in
Graus; the eastern portion roughly corresponds to the
Catalancomarca of
Alta Ribagorça.
The first history of the region was written in the early fifteenth century and preserved in a fragmentum historicum ex cartulario Alaonis (historical fragment from a cartulary of
Alaon), though a genealogy of the ruling dynasty of counts perhaps dating from the early 11th century appears in the Códice de Roda.
Miro (920–?), son of Raymond I, jointly with brother Bernard I
Bernard I Humfred (I) (920 – 950/955), son of Raymond I, jointly with brother Miro. Through his marriage to
Toda Galíndez of Aragon he and his successors were (sometimes only nominally) also Counts of
Sobrarbe.
William Isarn (1010–1018), illegitimate son of Isarn
Mayor García (1010–1025), granddaughter of Raymond II and sister of Sancho García of Castile, until 1019/20 she claimed the county jointly with her husband
Raymond III of Pallars, (1010–1025), distant cousin (both descended from Raymond I) and husband of Mayor García, he was co-claimant until their 1019/20 divorce, then counter-claimant
Sancho III of Pamplona (1018–1035), ruler first of William Isarn's portion, then of the entire county by conquest and submission, he married
Muniadona of Castile, niece and eventual heiress of Mayor García and great-granddaughter of Raymond II
Gonzalo (1035–1045), son of Sancho III, ruled as regulus (petty king) or rex (king) of Ribagorza and Sobrarbe
Absorbed into the territories of his brother
Ramiro I of Aragon on Gonzalo's death, on occasion created as an
appanage.
Iglesias Costa, Manuel (2001).
Historia del Condado de Ribagorza(PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses. Diputación de Huesca.
ISBN84-8127-121-7. Archived from the original on 2014-09-14.{{
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