1. Olegarius Bonestruga was the Bishop of Barcelona from 1116 and Archbishop of Tarragona from 1118 until his death.
17 Facts About Olegarius
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Olegarius was an intimate of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and often accompanied the count on military ventures.
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Olegarius was canonised in 1675 and his major shrine and sepulchre is in the side chapel of Christ of Lepanto in the cathedral of Barcelona.
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Olegarius's father was a follower of Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona; his mother was Guilla.
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At the age of ten, Olegarius entered the guild of canon priests of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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Olegarius attended Toulouse in 1119, Rheims in 1120, First Lateran in 1123, Narbonne in 1129, Clermont in 1130, and Rheims in 1131.
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At Narbonne the council confirmed the interprovincial archconfraternity for the restoration of the church of Tarragona which Olegarius had established on a more local level a year earlier.
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In 1133 Olegarius granted the sheets and beds of all deceased clergy to the hospital of En Guitard in Barcelona.
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Olegarius was a close counsellor to Ramon Berenguer III and Ramon Berenguer IV.
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Olegarius cut his stay short at Antioch because of concern for Tarragona and had returned by 1127.
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Between 1126 and 1130 Olegarius was very active in rebuilding Tarragona, its churches especially.
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Olegarius actively encouraged resettlement and colonisation and laboured to bring in knights and other soldiers for the new territory's defence.
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In 1129 Olegarius was drawn into the Investiture Controversy then raging between Papacy and Empire and he returned to southern France to be with the pope in exile.
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Olegarius was briefly in Barcelona and then in Castile in 1130 before returning to France.
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Olegarius was back in Barcelona for the cort of 1131, whereat Olegarius successfully petitioned for a restoration of the tithe on the revenues from Barcelona's port, which a new treaty he had negotiated with the Republic of Genoa had recently augmented.
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Olegarius helped establish the Knights Templar in Catalonia "to serve God and fight in our land" in 1134.
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Olegarius negotiated the marriage alliances between Douce I, Countess of Provence and Ramon Berenguer III and of Petronila of Aragon to Ramon Berenguer IV.