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Testament of Arnulf, bishop of Osona

Date
1010
Archive
Episcopal Archive of Vic
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-AEV-ACV-Cal.9, Ep. I, 96
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Description

Arnulf, bishop of Osona, ill at the castle of Calonge on returning from the military expedition to Córdoba, dictates his will. He appoints almoiners and leaves the castle of Llanera to the canonry of Vic and half of the castle of Calonge to his nephews, sons of his brother Ramon, viscount of Osona, among many other legacies.
The politico-military campaigns against the Islamic states of the Iberian Peninsula, which would end up recovering all that territory for what we now call the western world, constituted in the 9th-10th centuries an enterprise in which the entirety of society was involved, as reflected by the fact that one of the highest ecclesiastical authorities of the Catalan counties was directly involved. Without the delimitation of borders or areas of influence carried out in those campaigns, the current European cultural identity would be difficult to explain.