County of Gérone

The county of Gérone is a district of the frank kingdom born at the 8th century in the Marche of Spain. The county was located in current the Province of Gérone in the autonomy of Catalogne, in Spain.

Origins

The county of Gérone was made up after the rallying of the town of Gérone to the kingdom Carolingien, in the last years of the decade 780. The king Charlemagne appointed count an aristocrat goth name of Rostany. The county of Gérone then extends from the Mediterranean to the area of VIc and the Pyrenees. It includes/understands the pagi (country) of Besalú and Empúries. With beginning of the year 810, the '' pagus '' of Empúries is detached from Gérone to form an independent county. At the end of years 810, the county of Gérone is entrusted to the count Béra of Barcelona. The two counties remain managed by the same count until in 849. These counts are often of large frank aristocrats having of the important fields and managing broad comtaux units, like Bernard de Septimanie, marquis of Septimanie or Gothie and count of Barcelona, Lodève, Uzès, Carcassonne, Toulouse, Narbonne, Osona, Béziers, Agde, Mauguio and Nimes. The county of Gérone finds a local independence between 849 and 870, year when Charles the Bald person invests count Bernard de Gothie, marquis de Gothie and count de Barcelone, Narbonne and of Roussillon. In 878, Louis the Stammerer relieves Bernard for treason and entrusts the counties of Barcelona and Gérone to Guifred Hairy the, founder of the Dynastie of Barcelona, at the origin of the Catalan State. The county of Gérone is from now on plain with that of Barcelona.

The county of Gérone linked with that of Barcelona

The count Guifred separates from the county of Gérone the pagus of Besalú and sets up it in independent county for his/her Radulph brother. With died of this last, its heritage is coveted by two sons of Guifred, Sunyer Ier of Barcelona and Miró II of Cerdagne. It is finally the latter which carries it, the county of Besalú separates definitively from that of Gérone. The construction of the State inhabitant of Barcelona, then Catalan by the counts of Barcelona leaves little place to the existence of a county of independent Gérone. The county is sometimes made up in Douaire for widowed countesses, like Ermessende of Carcassonne, widow of Raymond Borrell. It preserves however a clean coining and a particular Vicomte. This Viscount ends up becoming a seigniory without particular relationship with Gérone and takes at the end of the 11th century the title of Viscount of Will pull up , of the name of the principal fortress of the Viscounts.

In 1351, the king Pierre IV of Aragon gives to his/her son Jean the title of duke of Gérone , with the resources of the counties of Gérone, Besalú, Empúries and Osona. This title remains that of the heirs to the crown to Aragon until 1416, when the king Ferdinand Ier d' Aragon decides to set up the duchy in principality. The title of Prince de Gérone is carried today by the heir to king d' Espagne, infant it Philippe.

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