archbishop of Narbonne bishop of Elna
He was the eldest son of Oliba Cabreta and Ermengard of Ampurias. When his father abdicated in 988 to become a monk in Monte Cassino, Wifred"s brother Bernard received Besalú while Oliba received Berga. When Oliba followed his father into the church in 1003, his county passed to Wifred.
Their mother acted as regent until 994. He participated actively in the consecration of many churches and monasteries, such as San Martín del Canigó, founded in 1007 and consecrated in 1009. Despite this, he did fight to free his county from the jurisdiction of the diocese of Urgell and thus entered into conflict with Saint Ermengol.
In 1023, Wifred entered into a peace concord with Berengar Raymond I of Barcelona and William I of Besalú.
In the early thirteenth-century Liber feudorum Ceritaniae the first folio is illuminated with a scene of Wifred receiving the homage of sarn and Dalmau, lords of Castellfollit. The picture, painted by a different artist from the rest of book, is of a higher calibre than the otherss and is in the Byzantinist style that was becoming dominant in Catalonia around 1200.
He died some fifteen years later in 1050. Raymond (1035–1068), successor in Cerdanya
Wifred (died 1079), archbishop of Narbonne
Berengar (died 1053), bishop of Elna
Arduin (died 1050)
William Wifred (died 1075), bishop of Urgell
Bernard (died 1050), successor in Berga
Berengar (died 1093), successor of Bernard in Berga and bishop of Girona
Fe (also Fides or Foy), married Hugh of Rouergue.
