Person:Olibia I de Carcassonne (1)

Disputed Lineage

Cawley^[3] does not assign parents to Oliba, stating "... it is not clear that the different nobles who are attributed in the primary sources with jurisdiction over Carcassonne during the late 8th and early 9th centuries were related. It was unusual during that period in France for fiefdoms to be awarded with hereditary rights, as is demonstrated by the absence of dynastic counties among the Carolingian nobility ..."

While it is known from a charter dated 23 Sep 873 that Oliba II and Acfred were brothers, it is not certain that they were children of Oliba I. They could have been grandsons or nephews.^[3]

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Oliba I of Carcassonne (died 837) was a count of Carcassonne in the 9th century.

He was the son of Bello of Carcassonne, and brother (or cousin) of Sunifred I of Barcelona. He succeeded to the county of Carcassonne (as well as to the county of Razès) after his brother Guisclafred had died without heirs.

Oliba married to Elmetruda and Richelda, with whom he had three sons: Oliba II, Sunifred (who was abbot of Lagrasse) and Acfred.

After his death the county of Carcassonne was ruled by Bernard of Septimania.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Oliba I of Carcassonne, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Biographie a Wikipédia FR, in Wikipedia
   [[1]], trouvée 2016.

   Olibia ou Olivier Ier de Carcassonne est comte de Carcassonne et aussi de Razès de 821 à 837, il est le fils de Bello de Carcassonne et de Nimilde, il succède à son frère Gisclafred,

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} OLIBA [I] (-[1 Nov 835/10 May 837]), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

   named in charters dated from 820 to 838
   
   A charter dated 10 May 837 was signed by "Richildis femina que fui uxor de conda Olibani comiti" (Richildis who was the wife of Count Olibanus).