Guifre (Wilfred) the Hairy, Count of Barcelona^{[1, 2]}

- 897

• Name	Guifre (Wilfred) the Hairy
  Suffix	Count of Barcelona
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	870
  	Count of Cerdany
  	.Count of Cerdanya (870\endash 897)
  Acceded	870
  	Count of Urgell
  	was Count of Urgell (870\endash 897)
  Acceded	878
  	Count of Barcelona
  	Count of Barcelona (878\endash 897)
  Acceded	878
  	Count of Besalú
  	Count of Besalú (878\endash 897)
  Acceded	878
  	Count of Girona
  	Count of Girona (878\endash 897)
  Acceded	886
  	Count of Ausona
  	Count of Ausona (886\endash 897)
  Death	11 Aug 897
  	Cause: killed in battle
  Notes	http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal21566 Acceded: 870 Count of Giron-Osona and Urgell-Cerdanya. He expanded his territory by colinizing adjacent areas. He was killed in battle with the Moors. http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal07698 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_the_Hairy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_Barcelona son of Sunifred I, managed to establish hereditary succession
  Person ID	I6706	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Sunifred I of Urgell, Count of Urgell-Cerdanya   d. 848
  Mother	Ermesende   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2995	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Guinidilda (Widinille) of Flanders   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Wifred (Guifre) Borrell II of Barcelona, Count of Barcelona   d. 911   2. Miro II, Count of Besalu,   b. Abt 892, Spain d. Oct 927 (Age ~ 35 years)   3. Sunifred II   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Sunyer of Barcelona, Count of Barcelona,   b. Abt 870   d. 950, Monastery of La Grassa (Age ~ 80 years)
  Family ID	F2481	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Photos		Wilfred the Hairy English: Statue of Wilfred the Hairy († 897) at the Plaza de Oriente (square) in Madrid (Spain). Sculpted in white stone by Luis Salvador Carmona (1709–1767) between 1750 and 1753.
  		Counties in the Spanish March.

  
  

• Sources

  [S30] "Colonial Familes in America". [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).