Bellonids

The Belloniden, in Catalan: Beŀlònides were a Gothic- Catalan dynasty, which existed in the direct male line from the beginning of the 9th century to 1327.

Progenitor of the dynasty was the Goth Bello, who has been handed down to the year 800 as the Carolingian Official Count in Carcassonne. His descendants had counties in the southern French region of Languedoc (Carcassonne ) and Catalonia (Empúries ) holds. The line from Carcassonne rose briefly on to Dukes of Aquitaine, before she died in the 10th century. The line of Empúries existed until 1327.

The term " Belloniden " has already been used in earlier research for this dynasty.

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.