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Guifré el Pilós de Barcelona
b.Abt 840 Urgel, Lérida, Cataluña, Spain
d.11 Aug 897 Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
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Wilfred or Wifred, called the Hairy (in Spanish: Wifredo el Velloso) (in Catalan: Guifré el Pilós), (died 11 August 897) was Count of Urgell (from 870), Cerdanya (from 870), Barcelona (from 878), Girona (from 878, as Wilfred II), Besalú (from 878) and Ausona (from 886). On his death in 897, his son, Wilfred Borrell, inherited these Catalan counties. He was responsible for the repopulation of the long-depopulated no-man's land around Vic (the county of Ausona, a frontier between Christian and Muslim), the re-establishment of the bishopric of Vic and the foundation of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, where he is buried.
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