Valencia of Tost
Overview
Biography
Valencia was the daughter of Arnau Mir of Tost in Urgell, and his wife Arsenda. In 1055, Valencia married Raymond IV, count of lower Pallars, who had been at war with her father; Raymond died in 1098. They had three sons, Pere Raymond, Arnau Raymond, and Bernat Raymond, all of whom ruled Pallars, the two eldest together for over a decade, the third succeeding them; they also had a daughter who is mentioned but not named in Valencia’s will.
When they married, Raymond sold a number of properties to Valencia's parents on the condition that if he should predecease his wife the properties would go to her as her allod and that she would hold all his other honors with a son or daughter from the marriage. (See letter from Raymond to Arnau and Arsenda, September 2, 1055, LFM #125.)
Valencia is a party to many of the charters issued under Raymond, which appear here. In another, #76, LFM 1.90-91, June 1081, an agreement between count Raymond and viscount Arnau Bernart over the castle of Talarn, although she is not named as an issuer, Arnau Bernart agrees to be the man of count Raymond and of countess Valencia and their son, and do fidelity according to their will, and give them power, etc., and Valencia is one of the signers.
For a detailed study of the agreements recorded in such charters in Catalonia during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, see Adam J. Kosto, Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). I have drawn heavily on this work for the meanings of terms used in the charters.
Letters from Valencia of Tost
A letter to Arnau Mir of Tost (1064, July 16)A letter to Arnau Mir of Tost (1064, July 16)
A letter to Dod of Eroles (April 1061-1108)
A letter to Drocho (March, 1088)
A letter to Ermessend (1055-98)
A letter to Girbert and Udalard (1061-1108)
A letter to Guilamany Hug (1079, September)
A letter to Guitard William of Midiano
A letter to Oliver Bernard (1080, February 19.)
A letter to Public (1100, February 19)
A letter to Raymond Mir (1056-57, July.)
A letter to Raymond Peter (Ramon Pere) (1076, July 12)
A letter to Sunyer Raymond (1080, February 19.)
A letter to William Folc (1079, December 5)
Letters to Valencia of Tost
A letter from Arnal and OgerA letter from Bernard of Belera
A letter from Bertran
A letter from Ermengol, count of Urgell
A letter from Ermengol, count of Urgell
A letter from Ermengol, count of Urgell
A letter from Ermongol, Count of Urgell
A letter from Girbert Bertran and his mother
A letter from Raymond IV, count of Pallars
A letter from Raymond IV, count of Pallars
A letter from Raymond IV, count of Pallars
A letter from Raymond Mir
A letter from Sunyer Raymond
A letter from Tedball Raymond
A letter from Tedball Raymond
A letter from the count of Pallars
A letter from the Count of Pallars
A letter from the men of Valle Orcaria
A letter from Viscount Gerbert
A letter from viscount Pons and viscountess Ledgard
A letter from viscountess Adalgard
A letter from William Ez and Gilbert Ez