Idalguer

Idalguer (Latin: Hidelherius, Idelherus; died 914) was the second bishop of Vic (899–914) after the see was re-founded.[1] He played a leading role in re-organising the diocese, consecrating churches at Lluçà, Manlleu and Sant Julià de Vilatorta.[2]

At the council of Barcelona in 906 Idalguer averred that "there was not a single Christian left alive in Osona" after the rebellion of Aizo in 826–27 until the re-settlement initiated in 878 by Count Wifred I, the Hairy.[3] He attributes the reconquista and repoblación to divine mercy: "the Lord had mercy on those lands, he raised up in them the most noble prince Wifred".[4] He was thus one of the first propagandists for the Bellonid family. His account before the council of the poverty of his diocese led to a remittance of the annual tribute owed to the archdiocese of Narbonne.[2]

In 908 Idalguer had a will drawn up.[5] He himself was the executor of the will of Count Wifred II in 911.[2]

Notes

1. Freedman 1983, appendix
2. Idalguer Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana
3. Freedman 1991, p. 89.
4. Salrach 2011, p. 31: misertus Dominus terrae illa, suscitavit in ea nobilissimum principem Wifredum.
5. Jarrett 2010, p. 61.

References

• Freedman, Paul (1983). Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia. Rutgers. ISBN 9780813509709.
• Freedman, Paul (1991). The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521393270.
• Jarrett, Jonathan Andrew (2010). Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880–1010: Pathways of Power. Boydell & Brewer.
• Salrach, Josep Maria (2011). "La legitimación del poder condal en los orígenes de Cataluña". In Martínez Sopena, Pascual; Rodríguez, Ana (eds.). La construcción medieval de la memoria regia. Publicacions de la Universitat de València. pp. 21–32.