List of the Counts of Gévaudan

After the death of Duke William I of Aquitaine in 918 , three families fought over the succession: the Counts of Auvergne , Toulouse and Poitiers . The duke's representatives, the vice- counts of southwestern France, acquired a relative independence through this situation, which enabled them to make their office hereditary and to acquire the title of count.

Counts of Gévaudan

• Bertand de Gévaudan, 926 attested; ⚭ Emilgarde
• Etienne I., † 961, 943/961 Count of Gévaudan, their son; ⚭ I Annane; ⚭ II Adelais von Anjou , † 1026, daughter of Count Fulko II. And Gerberga von Maine , she married in 979 , separated in 984 , Louis V, King of France (* probably 966/967, † 987 ) ( Carolingian ) , in third marriage 984 / around 986 William I Count of Arles , Margrave of Provence († 994 ), in fourth marriage before 1016 Otto Wilhelm , 982 Count of Mâcon and Nevers , 995 Count of Burgundy († 21 September 1026 ) ( House Burgundy-Ivrea )
• Guillaume, attested in 955/1010, Count of Gévaudan, son of Etienne I and Annane
• Pons, † 1016/18, Count of Gévaudan, son of Etienne and Adelheid of Anjou; ⚭ II Thiberge, widow of Artaud II , Count of Lyon
• Bertrand, attested in 975/998, Count von Gévaudan, brother of Pons' I.
• Etienne II, attested in 1011, † probably before 1029, Count of Gévaudan and Count of Forez , son of Pons I
  • Pons, attested in 1011, † probably before 1029, his brother

The county of Gévaudaun falls to Count Hugo von Rouergue , a relative of Etienne II, who appears as Count von Gévaudan in 1035 . Before 1029, the county of Forez fell to Gerald Count of Lyon , his half-brother. The Counts of Lyon called themselves Counts of Lyon and Forez until the 13th century .

• Hugo , † 1053, 1028 Count of Rouergue , 1033 Count of Gévaudan ( House of Toulouse )
• Bertha , † 1065, Countess of Rouergue and Gévaudan, whose daughter, she married Robert II , Count of Auvergne before 1051 , † probably in 1096

After Bertha's death, her relatives William IV of Toulouse and Raimund von Saint-Gilles fought over the inheritance and came to an agreement after 15 years of struggle

• Raimund von Saint-Gilles , † 1105 , Margrave of Gothia ( Rouergue , Narbonne , Gévaudan), 1085 Count of Gévaudan, 1088 Count of Toulouse etc.

The title seems to have been used occasionally by the Counts of Clermont and Auvergne , whether as the descendants of Count Robert I and the Ermengarde of Gévaudan, a daughter of Etienne of Gévaudan and Adelheid of Anjou, or because of the heirless marriage of Countess Bertha with to Count Robert II of Auvergne.

Vice Counts of Millau and Rodez

With the disintegration of the county, u. a. the vice counts of Millau in power

• Richard I († 1013/23), vice count of Millau and Rodez 1002, brother or son of Bernard, vice count of Gévaudan; ⚭ Sénégonde, daughter of Guillaume, vice- count of Béziers
• Richard II († 1050), Vice Count of Millau and Rodez in 1023, his son; ⚭ Richilde, daughter of Berengar, Vice Count of Narbonne
• Berengar, Vice Count of Millau and Rodez en 1051, his son; ⚭ Adele, daughter of Girbert, Vice Count of Carlat , and Nobilia, Vice Countess of Lodève
• Gilbert or Girbert († 1111), Vice Count of Millau, Lodève and Carlat, their son.

Counts of Gévaudan

• Gilbert or Girbert († 1111), vice- count of Millau, Lodève and Carlat, united the three vice-counties and called himself Count of Gévaudan ; ⚭ Gerberga († 1115), Countess of Provence
• 1111 - 1130 : Dulcia I († 1130), their daughter; ⚭ 1112 Raimund Berengar III. († 1131), Count of Barcelona and as Raimund Berengar I Count of Provence
• 1131 - 1162 : Raimund Berengar IV. († 1162); ⚭ 1151 Petronella († 1173) Queen of Aragón
• 1162 - 1196 : Alfonso II , King of Aragon , Count of Barcelona , Cerdagne , Roussillon and Provence ; ⚭ 1174 Sanchia of Castile († 1208)
• 1196 - 1213 : Peter II. († 1213), King of Aragón , Mallorca , Count of Barcelona , Cerdagne and Roussillon : ⚭ Maria von Montpellier († 1219)
• 1225 - 1258 : James I († 1276) King of Aragón , Valencia Mallorca , Count of Barcelona , Cerdagne and Roussillon : and Provence ; ⚭ I 1221 Eleanor of Castile ; ⚭ II 1235 Jolanthe of Hungary († 1251)

In 1258 , in the Treaty of Corbeil , James I sold the county of Gévaudan to the French King Louis IX. who adds the Gévaudan to the Domaine royal . The bishops of Mende henceforth call themselves Counts of Gévaudan.