Bellonids
The Bellonids , in Catalan : Beŀlònides , were a Gothic-Catalan dynasty that existed in the direct male line from the beginning of the 9th century to 1327.
The progenitor of the dynasty was the Goth Bello , who was handed down as Carolingian count in Carcassonne around the year 800 . His descendants held counties in the southern French region of Languedoc (Carcassonne) and in Catalonia (Empúries). The Carcassonne line briefly rose to become dukes of Aquitaine before becoming extinct in the 10th century. The Empúries line existed until 1327.
The term "Belloniden" was used for this dynasty in older research.
House Barcelona
Especially in the older literature, Bello was also recognized as the progenitor of the House of Barcelona , as he was assigned a fourth son, Count Sunifred I of Barcelona . His descendants continued in the male line until 1410 and provided the high medieval kings of Aragón . This assumption is based on a document from the year 879, in which Miró the elder , one of Sunifred's sons, is named "in the succession of his grandfather Bello" (per successionem avi fui Bellone) .
The assumption that Bello is the agnatic progenitor of the House of Barcelona is increasingly being rejected. Rather, he is accepted as an ancestor in the cognatic, i.e. in the female line. This assumption is based on a document from Emperor Ludwig the Pious from 829, in which the fideli nostro Sunicfredo is confirmed in the possessions of his father Bosrello . The addressee of this document is recently regarded as identical to Count Sunifred I of Barcelona, who was thus a son of Count Borrell of Osona . A connection between Sunifred and Bello can only be established through his wife Ermesende, who could be the daughter of the Count of Carcassonne, through whom the grandfather relationship of Bello with Miró the elder and his brothers can be established.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana SAU (Spain) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The meaning of the word "Bel·lònidas .
- ^ Godfrey Matthew Evans " Classified catalog of the library of the Royal geographical society " 1871, Oxford University.
- ↑ Marca Hispanica sive limes Hispanicus , ed. by Petrus de Marca (1688), no. 39, col. 804–806.
- ↑ Diplomata Ludovici Pii Imperatoris , ed. in Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France , Vol. 6 (1879), CLIII, p. 561.
- ^ Miquel Coll i Alentorn: Guifré el Pelós en la Historiografia i en Llegenda (1990), p. 108. Archibald R. Lewis: The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050 (1965), cap. VI, footnote 9.
