Froia (bishop of Vic)

Froia (or Fruia, Catalan: Frujà or Fruià; died 992×93) was a canon of the cathedral of Vic from 957 and bishop from 972.

[2] On 25 February 978, Pope Benedict VII confirmed the possessions and borders of the see of Vic in a pair of bulls sent to Froia and the other suffragan bishops of Narbonne.

[3] Froia pursued a policy of acquiring and building castles along the Catalan frontier, even within the county and diocese of Barcelona.

[1] In 987, Count Borrell II of Barcelona donated half of the frontier castle of Miralles to Froia, who extracted an oath of fidelity from the castellan or vicar, Ennec Bonfill: the earliest surviving written oath from Catalonia.

[4] Froia also acquired the castles of Les Espases, Esparreguera and Font-rubí in the diocese of Barcelona.

The tower of the castle of Artés dates from the 10th century and was owned by the bishops of Vic during Froia's time [ 1 ]