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Sicomares together with his wife Oreta and others sell a villa in the Brocá valley to Guifré I count of Barcelona and his wife Guinidilda.

Date
889
Archive
Archive of the Crown of Aragon
Document type
Textual
Reference code
ES.08019.ACA//ACA,CANCILLERÍA,Pergaminos,Wifredo I,Serie general,6
Link to the online document
Description

In a corner of the Brocà valley, in 889, Sicomares and his wife Oreta sold a small “villa” to Count Guifré I of Barcelona and his wife Guinidilda. This seemingly simple gesture hides a great transformation: the consolidation of the county power and the beginning of a new territorial organization in Catalonia. The document containing this, written on parchment and preserved in the Archives of the Crown of Aragon, is the oldest preserved in this collection. It is part of the legacy of the monastery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses, founded by Guifré himself, a symbol of the union between political and religious power. This parchment tells us about a foundational time, when Catalonia was beginning to chart its path within feudal Europe. It is a window into a world where power relations, land and faith were woven in documents like this, which today allow us to understand the origins of a collective identity.