County of Ribagorza

The County of Ribagorza or Ribagorça was originally the independent creation of a local Basque dynasty, later absorbed into the Kingdom of Navarre, then Aragon. Historically it had a strong connexion with the counties of Sobrarbe and Pallars. Its territory was the valleys of the rivers Esera, Isábena, and Noguera Ribagorzana. The seat of its counts was at Benabarre. Today the western portion of the county comprises the comarca of Ribagorza, with its administrative centre in Graus.

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 the cartulary of Alaon).

List of counts

• Raymond I (872-920), son of Lupe, Count of Bigorre.
• Bernard I Humfred (I) (920-950/955), son of Raymond I, jointly with brother Miro.
• Miro (920-?), son of Raymond I, jointly with brother Bernard I.
• Raymond II (950/955-970), son of Bernard I.
• Humfred (II) (970-979), son of Raymond II.
• Arnold (979-990), son of Raymond II.
• Isern (990-1003), son of Raymond II.
• Tota (1003-1011), daughter of Raymond II.
• William (1011-1017), illegitimate son of Isern, his rule was contested by Mayor García of Castile, granddaughter of Raymond II, and by Raymond III of Pallars, her former husband.
• Sancho I (1017-1035), by conquest, he married Mayor Sanchez of Castile, niece and eventual heiress of Mayor García.
• Gonzalo (1035-1045), son of Sancho I.
• Ramiro I (1045-1063), illegitimate son of Sancho I.
• Sancho II (1063-1085), son of Ramiro I.
• Peter I (1085-1104), son of Sancho II.
• Alfonso I (1104-1134), son of Sancho II.
• Ramiro II (1134-1137), son of Sancho II.
• Petronilla (1137-1162), daughter of Ramiro I.
• Alfonso II (1161-1196), son of Petronilla.
• Peter II (1196-1213), son of Alfonso II.
• James I (1213-1276), son of Peter II.
• Peter III (1276-1285), son of James I.
• Alfonso III (1285-1291), son of Peter III.
• James II (1291-1322), son of Peter III.
• Peter IV (1322-1381), son of James II.
• Alfonso IV (1381-1412), son of Alfonso IV.
• Alfonso V (1412-1425), son of Alfonso V, following his death, the county reverted to the crown of Aragon.
• John I (1425-1458), John II (King of Aragon)
• Ferdinand I (1458-1469), Ferdinand II (King of Aragon)
• Alfonso VI (1469-1485), illegitimate son of John II of Aragon.
• John II (1485-1512), illegitimate son of Alfonso VI.
• Alfonso VII (1512-1533), son of John II.
• Martin I (1533-1565 and 1573-1581), son of Alfonso VII.
• John Alfonso (1565-1573), son of Martin I.
• Ferdinand II (1581-1592), son of Martin I.
• Francis (1592-1598), son of Martin I.

References

• Lewis, Archibald Ross. The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1965.