Bernard-Roger of Foix

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Bernard Roger (c.962 – c.1034) was the count of Couserans, in which capacity he held part of Comminges and Foix. He was the son of Count Roger I of Carcassonne and his elder brother Raymond inherited Carcassonne and the remainder of Comminges. Bernard's comital status is attested in the donation to the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire in 1011. He is the founder of the House of Foix which ruled that county for centuries.

During his father's lifetime, he married Arsinde (or Garsenda), the heiress of Bigorre. He built the square tower of the castle at Foix and made it his capital, from which a town group up. He had endowed the monastery at Foix and in it he was buried when he died at the ripe old age of seventy-two. His lands were divided: his eldest son, Bernard, took Bigorre; the second, Roger, became the first count of Foix, including the castles of Castelpenent, Roquemaure, Lordat, and several within the county of Toulouse; and the youngest, Peter, inherited Couserans.