Battle of Mollerussa

The Battle of Mollerussa (or Mollerusa) took place in the south of the county of Urgell on 11 or 14 September 1102. In the battle, Count Ermengol V was defeated and killed by an Almoravid army. Mollerussa lies halfway between Bellpuig and Lleida and is the largest town in the Pla d'Urgell.

Background

The Almoravids, a Moroccan Islamic sect, had first invaded the Iberian peninsula in 1086, where they scored a victory over Castile at the Battle of Sagrajas. They only began the systematic conquest of Iberian taifas, small independent Muslim states, in 1090. The Hudid taifa of Lleida, the nearest to Urgell, paid tribute (parias) to Ermengol V.[1][2] Nonetheless, the Muslim city of Balaguer, nearest to Urgell, was captured and briefly held by Viscount Guerau Ponç II de Cabrera in 1100 or 1101, before falling to the Almoravids.[3]

Battle

The brief but most detailed account of the battle is found in the Deeds of the Counts of Barcelona, the original version of which was written in the mid-12th century by an anonymous monk of Santa Maria de Ripoll, with later redactions and a Catalan translation appearing in the 14th century:

Ermengol of Mollerussa [was] so called because it was in a place called Mollerussa with the three hundred knights, it is said, and a number of other Christians that he was killed by the Almoravids, under Count Ramon Berenguer the third, in the year of Christ 1102.[4][5][6]

Some scholars have taken this to imply that Count Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona (ruled 1086–1131) was involved in the defeat.[7][8] Two other Catalan annals from the 12th century attest to Ermengol's death at Mollerussa, without providing any other information. The Chronicon Rivipullense II, from Santa Maria de Ripoll, notes that "many died with him".[9] The Chronicon Rotense II, written at the cathedral of Roda de Isábena, is in fact the earliest source, but provides no more than that in 1102 Ermengol died at Mollerussa.[10] The Tunisian historian Ibn al-Kardabūs, in a passage immediately following on the Almoravid conquest of Valencia (May 1102), states that Mazdalī, acting wālī of Valencia, launched an incursion into "Barcelona". This might be the invasion that ended in the battle of Mollerussa, since the next known incursion into Catalonia took place in 1108.[11]

Owing to the diverse and inconsistent spellings for "Mollerussa" in the medieval sources, scholars in the past have proposed that the battle at which Ermengol V was killed took place in Mayorga in the Kingdom of León or on the Muslim-controlled island of Mallorca, both far from Urgell. Recent scholarship has settled on the correctness of Mollerussa.[12] This was proposed as early as the 18th century by Domingo de Costa y Bofarull, Memorias de la ciudad de Solsona y su Iglesia (finally published in 1959), who noted that Ermengol was interred in the cathedral of Solsona and that he had not had time to make a will, suggesting that it was not a planned expedition far from home.[13]

The necrology of the cathedral of Solsona dates the battle to 14 September: "The eighteenth kalends of October: this day did the pagans kill the most noble Count Ermengol, who many times served God and the Blessed Mary and her clergy."[14]

Aftermath

The death of Ermengol V, following quickly on that of his wife, María Pérez, in April, left his successor, Ermengol VI, a child of no more than eight years, under the guardianship of his maternal grandparents, the Castilian count Pedro Ansúrez and his wife, Elo Alfonso.[15][16] In 1105, Pedro definitively re-captured Balaguer.[3] In 1110, the citizens of Lleida threw out their ruler and invited in the Almoravids, who thus took over most of the taifa without a battle.[17]

Notes

  1. ^ Lladonosa 1974, p. 86.
  2. ^ Miret i Sans 1904, p. 39.
  3. ^ a b Mora Giné 2010, p. 36.
  4. ^ Barrau Dihigo & Massó i Torrents 2007, p. 12 (primitive version, XII.5): Ermengaudo uero de Gerb successit Ermengaudus de Moieruca filius eius, qui et ideo sic cognomentum accepit, quia in loco qui dicitur Moieruca cum trecentis, ut aiunt, militibus et multis aliis christianis ab Almorauitis interfectus est.
  5. ^ Barrau Dihigo & Massó i Torrents 2007, pp. 33–34 (definitive version, XII.5): . . . Ermengaudus de Moieruca, qui ideo sic uocatur, quia in loco qui dicitur Moieruca [Moyeruca, Moienica, Mojeruca] cum trecentis militibus et multis aliis christianis sub Almorauitis interfectus est, sub tertio Raimundo Berengarii comite, anno Christi MCII.
  6. ^ Cingolani 2008, p. 100 (XIII.4): E aprés d'ell hac lo comtat Ermengou de Mayorica [Moieruça, Mayacha, Mallorcha, Malorqua], lo qual és axí apelat com morí en aquel loch ab ·CCC· cavalers e ab molts altres christians, los quals ocieren Almoràvits, regnant en Ramon Berenguer terç, comte de Barcelona, anno Domini ·MCII·.
  7. ^ Reilly 1993, p. 107.
  8. ^ Barton 2009, p. 56.
  9. ^ Cingolani 2008, p. 100, n.: Era MCXL [i.e., Spanish era 1140], anno MCII. Obiit Ermengaudus comes Urgellensis, et occisus est in Maioruca, et multi alii cum eo.
  10. ^ Barrau Dihigo & Massó i Torrents 2007, p. 34, n.: Era MCII. Ermengaudus comes occisus est in Mulieruças.
  11. ^ Laliena Corbera 2000, p. 330, quoting the translation of Maíllo Salgado: Después el emir Mazdalī, valí de Valencia, lanzó una incursión a Barcelona, adentrándose en ella hasta un lugar al nadie había llegado, entonces derribó sus iglesias, arrasó sus campanarios, incendió sus ciudades y dispersó sus ejércitos; mató, hizo prisioneros y se apoderó de sus castillos a viva fuerza. Retornó cuando las manos de los musulmanes se habían colmado de botín de los politeístas. Trajo campanas (nawāqis), cruces y vasos que estaban guarnecidos de plata y de oro poro. Ordenó que se pusiesen lámparas sobre aquellas campanas y que ardiesen en la mezquita aljama de Valencia; entonces fueron suspendidas en ella, como si ellas fuesen espadas reluciendo en las orejas de las vírgenes.
  12. ^ Corredera Gutiérrez 1963, pp. 21–22.
  13. ^ Els castells catalans 1979, pp. 920 and nn., quoting Costa y Bofarull: "El haber sido enterrada en Solsona y no haber tenido tiempo para dejar escrito su testamento al tiempo de partir contra los moros, muestra que la expedición fue en Mollenusa, y no en Mallorca".
  14. ^ Corredera Gutiérrez 1963, pp. 21–22: XVIII kal. Octobris: ipso die interfectus fuit nobilissimus comes Ermengaudus a paganis, qui multum Deo et B. Mariae et suis clericis serviebat.
  15. ^ Reilly 2008, p. 116.
  16. ^ Barton 1996, p. 89.
  17. ^ Mendonsa 2008, p. 174.

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