Bello of Carcassonne

Bello or Bellon ( Catalan c: Bello, span: Bello; † after 812 ) was a Count of Carcassonne and the progenitor of the noble family of the Belloniden.

Bello was of Gothic origin, was employed by Charlemagne before the year 800 as Count in Carcassonne in the Gothic Mark ( Septimania ). He is supposedly 778 and 812 is documented between years.

Are attributed to him three sons:

• Guisclafred Count of Carcassonne
• Oliba Count I of Carcassonne; Descendants to 927
• Count Sunyer I of Empúries; Descendants to 1327
• ? Ermesinde, ∞ with Count Sunifred I of Barcelona

House Barcelona

Especially in the older literature Bello was also recognized as the progenitor of the House of Barcelona by a fourth son was him with Count I of Barcelona Sunifred attributed. His descendants continued lasted until the year 1410 in the male line, and put the high medieval kings of Aragon. This assumption is based on a document from the year 879, in which Miro the Elder, one of the sons Sunifreds, " in imitation of his grandfather Bello " (per successionem avi fui Bellone ) is called.

The assumption that Bello is the agnatic progenitor of the House Barcelona is, however, increasingly discarded. Rather, it is assumed to be in cognatischer Ahn, so in the female line. Basis of this assumption is a document of Emperor Louis the Pious, from the year 829, in which the fideli nostro Sunicfredo is confirmed in the possessions of his father Bosrello. The recipient of this certificate is recently regarded as identical with the Count Sunifred I of Barcelona, ​​which thus had been a son of Count Borrell of Osona. A connection with Sunifreds Bello can therefore only be made by his wife Ermesende by this came as a daughter of the Count of Carcassonne in question over which the grandfatherly relationship Bellos can be made with Miro the Elder and his brothers.