of Roussillon. These counts were nominated by the Carolingian kings of France, of whom they were vassals. Gaucelm (812–832) Hereafter, also counts of...

the first hereditary count of the middle portion, or Besalú. The counts of Roussillon were allied to their cousins the counts of Empúries in a centuries-long...

during the Middle Ages. The rulers of the county were the counts of Roussillon, whose interests lay both north and south of the Pyrenees. The historic county's...

Sunyer I was count of Empúries and Roussillon (with the pagus of Perelada) from 834 to 841.[page needed] He was the son of Count Belló I of Carcassonne...

entrusted to the counts of Toulouse. During the feudal era, a great political fragmentation took place: the counties of Roussillon and Cerdanya passed...

of metropolitan France excluding Corsica, created on 1 January 2016 from the former regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. The Council of...

of Umayyad caliphs Dukes of Medina-Sidonia Viscounts of Barcelona Counts of Besalú Counts of Cerdanya Counts of Empúries Counts of Roussillon Counts of...

Roussillon (1208–1212). He served as the regent of Provence from 1209 until 1218 during the minority of Count Raymond Berengar IV, and as regent of Aragon...

counts of Roussillon. Historically, it was part of the region known as Septimania. In 1172 Count Girard II bequeathed his lands to the Counts of Barcelona...

Elne was one of the first towns to be attacked, and when the counts of Roussillon achieved independence, Perpignan became the capital of the county, with...