Bellonids

The Bellonids (Catalan: Bel·lònides,^[1] Spanish: Bellónidas, French: Bellonides^[2]), sometimes called the Bellonid Dynasty, were the counts descendant of the Goth Belló who ruled in Carcassonne, Urgel, Cerdanya, Conflent, Barcelona, and numerous other Catalan and Septimanian counties and marches in the 9th century and whose most famous grandson was Wilfred the Hairy, who founded the dynasty of Barcelona, rulers of the County of Barcelona since 897^[3] and, since 1164, also the Crown of Aragon until Martin the Humane, in 1410.

One of the peculiarities of the family is that, in the early years of the 10th century, all the Eastern counties of the Spanish March, and the Occitan counties of Carcassone and Razès were ruled by Belló's descendants. This would have favored the co-ruling of some territories, and a clan-like network of mutual support, although they would have also been exposed to the risk of endogamy.^[4]

The term "Bellonids" has been used by Catalan historians,^[3] English historians (in 1871)^[5] and French historians.^[2][6][7]

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