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- BIOGRAPHY
Cecilia was the daughter of Bernard VIII de Comminges, vicomte de Turenne, comte de Comminges, and Mathe de l'Isle-Jourdain. In 1336 she married Jaime de Aragón, conde de Urgel, the fourth son of Alfonso IV 'the Debonair', king of Aragón, and Teresa de Entenza, condesa de Urgel. She brought the viscounty of Turenne as her dowry. Of their two children their son Pedro would have progeny.
Cecilia sold to her brother-in-law Guillaume III Roger de Beaufort, comte de Beaufort et d'Alais, husband of her sister Akiénor and nephew of Pope Clement VI (Pierre Rogier), the viscounty of Turenne, which earned her a considerable sum with which she restored and built many important buildings in the county of Urgel. The most important heritage buildings in the county are due to her work as a patron. Among others she ordered the construction of the church of Santa Maria de Balaguer and the convent of the Clarisas (the Order of the Poor Clares) of Almatá.
When her husband Jaime de Aragón was dying, Cecilia became the guardian of their young children Pedro and Isabel. She devoted herself to the economic recovery of the county, eliminating a significant portion of the debt that her husband had accrued. Her rule marked the heyday of the county of Urgel.
On the death of her three your old brother Jean I Posthumus in 1339, Cecilia became the heir to the county of Comminges. However, to prevent the county from being acquired by the house of Aragón, it was decided that her nephew Pierre Raimond II de Comminges should marry Cecilia's sister Jeanne so that he could become heir to the county, which would then be retained by the house of Comminges. Aliénor de Comminges, the daughter of Raimond II and Jeanne, had a daughter Jeanne II who did not have progeny with either of her husbands Jean I, duc de Berry, comte de Poitou, and Georges de La Trémouille, comte de Guines, de Boulogne et d'Auvergne. Both would have progeny with other wives.
Cecilia died in 1384.
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