Vilaragut

The Vilaragut were a Catalan noble house of the Penedès whose knights served Aragon by land and sea. In 1286 Berenguer de Vilaragut, an admiral of Sicily, took twenty galleys to blockade Brindisi for three days and raided Corfu.

His daughter Violante married James III of Majorca in 1347; after his death at Llucmajor in 1349, Peter IV of Aragon took her prisoner. Freed, she married Otto IV of Brunswick in 1353.

A younger branch settled in Sicily, where Ramon de Vilaragut married Diana Visconti and their son Anthony was born in 1336. Anthony commanded galleys defending Sicily against Naples and received Tripi. In 1388 John I granted him the Valencian baronies of Dosaigües and Alaquàs; at his death in 1400 he held one of the greatest estates in Valencia.