Ermengol VI (1096–1154), called el de Castilla, was the Count of Urgell from 1102 to his death. He was the son and successor of Ermengol V

Ermengol V of Urgell

Ermengol V , called El de Mollerussa , was the Count of Urgell from 1092 to his death. He was the son of Ermengol IV and his first wife, Lucy of La Marche....

 and María Ansúrez.

He was born in Valladolid

Valladolid

Valladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...

, whence his nickname comes. During his minority, he was under the regency of his grandfather, Pedro Ansúrez

Pedro Ansúrez

Pedro Ansúrez was a Castilian count of Liébana, Saldaña and Carrión in the closing decades of the eleventh century and the opening decades of the twelfth. He is considered the founder and first lord of Valladolid....

, lord of Valladolid, but the real power lay in the hands of Guerau II of Cabrera and Raymond Berenguer III of Barcelona. With their help, the young count count conquered Balaguer

Balaguer

Balaguer is the capital of the comarca of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.It is located by the river Segre, a tributary to the Ebre....

 in 1106 and made it his capital.

Armengol collaborated with Alfonso the Battler

Alfonso the Battler

Alfonso I , called the Battler or the Warrior , was the king of Aragon and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I...

 in the 1118 capture of Zaragoza

Zaragoza

Zaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...

 and in the expedition of Alfonso VII the Emperor

Alfonso VII of León

Alfonso VII , born Alfonso Raimúndez, called the Emperor , became the King of Galicia in 1111 and King of León and Castile in 1126. Alfonso first used the title Emperor of All Spain, alongside his mother Urraca, once his mother vested him with the direct rule of Toledo in 1116...

 against Almería

Almería

Almería is a city in Andalusia, Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the province of the same name.-Toponym:Tradition says that the name Almería stems from the Arabic المرية Al-Mariyya: "The Mirror", comparing it to "The Mirror of the Sea"...

 in 1147. He had good relations with the House of Barcelona

House of Barcelona

The House of Barcelona was a medieval dynasty that ruled the County of Barcelona continuously from 878 and the Crown of Aragon from 1137 . From the male part they descend from the Bellonids, the descendants of Wifred the Hairy...

 and he accompanied Raymond Berengar IV's to Provence

Provence

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 in 1144. In 1149, he assisted Raymond Berengar in the conquest and repopulation of Lleida

Lleida

Lleida is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida, as well as the largest city in the province and it had 137,387 inhabitants , including the contiguous municipalities of Raimat and Sucs. The metro area has about 250,000 inhabitants...

, which was thenceforward a city of his dominion. Ermengol died in Castile.

In 1129, Ermengol married Arsenda de Cabrera, daughter of the viscount Ponç of Àger. Besides his successor, Ermengol VII

Ermengol VII of Urgell

Ermengol VII was the Count of Urgell from 1154 to his death. He was called el de Valencia.The son of Ermengol VI and his first wife, Arsenda of Cabrera, in 1157, Ermengol VII married Dulce, daughter of Roger III of Foix and Jimena de Osona, who acted as his regent during his absences in Castile...

, he had two daughters with her: Sibylla, who married Ramon Folch, viscount of Cardona

Cardona

Cardona is a town ìn Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona; about 90 km northwest of the city of Barcelona, on a hill almost surrounded by the river Cardoner, a branch of the Llobregat.Near the town is an extensive deposit of rock salt...

, and Stephanie, who married Arnau Mir of Pallars Jussà

Arnau Mir of Pallars Jussà

Arnau Mir was the Count of Pallars Jussà from 1124/6 until his death.The Memoria renovata, which dates to the reign of Raymond Berengar IV of Barcelona over the Kingdom of Aragon, contains a genealogy of Arnau Mir...

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In 1135, Ermengol married a second time to Elvira, daughter of Rodrigo of Lara

Rodrigo González de Lara

Rodrigo González de Lara was a Castilian nobleman of the House of Lara. Early in his career he ruled that half of Asturias allocated to Castile. He was faithful to the crown throughout the reign of Queen Urraca , during which time he was married to the queen's half-sister and ruled a large part of...

 and Sancha of Castile. To this union were born Galceran de Sales and Mary, lady of Almenara

Almenara

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