The
Bellonids (,
,
), sometimes called the
Bellonid Dynasty, were the counts descended from the
Visigoth Belló who ruled in
Carcassonne,
Urgell,
Cerdanya, County of Conflent, Barcelona, and numerous other
Hispanic March counties in the 9th and 10th centuries. His most famous grandson was Wilfred the Hairy, who founded the House of Barcelona, rulers of the County of Barcelona from 878,
[Martin Aurell, "Les noces du comte: Mariage et pouvoir en Catalogne (785-1213)" Vol. 73, No. 4 (Oct., 1998), pp. 1102–1104 Published by: Medieval Academy of America.] and since 1164 the Crown of Aragon, until the end of the reign of Martin the Humane in 1410.
Since the early years of the 10th century all of the eastern counties of the Hispanic March and the counties of Conflent, Carcassonne, Foix, and Razès of the Septimania 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.[Regarding the problem of consanguineous marriage among the Bellonids, see M. Aurell, Les noces del comte: matrimoni i poder a Catalunya (785-1213), Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1998, pp. 28–41.]
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