State · 812 – 1172
County of Roussillon
A state of 812 – 1172 — 360 years in Europe. It replaced Spanish march. It was replaced by Principality of Catalonia. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 15 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 360 years
- 812 – 1172
- Rulers
- 15
- the Count of Roussillon
- Within it
- 6
- recorded rows
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Spanish march · replaces
After it
- Principality of Catalonia · replaced by · 1173 – 1714
Rulers
The line of Count of Roussillon - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bello of Carcassonne | 800 – 812 | 12 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Gaucelm | 812 – 832 | 20 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Berengar the Wise | 832 – 835 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Sunyer I of Empúries | 835 – 848 | 13 years | ending not on record | |
| William of Septimania | 848 – 850 | 2 years | executedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Miro the Elder | 878 – 896 | 18 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Sunyer II of Empúries | 896 – 915 | 19 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Gausfred I | 931 – 991 | 60 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | grandchild |
| Giselbert I of Roussillon | 991 – 1013 | 22 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Gausfred II of Roussillon | 1013 – 1074 | 61 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Giselbert II of Roussillon | 1074 – 1102 | 28 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Girard I of Roussillon | 1102 – 1113 | 11 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Gausfred III of Roussillon | 1113 – 1164 | 51 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Girard II of Roussillon | 1164 – 1172 | 8 years | ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term | child |
| Alfonso II of Aragon | 1172 – 1185 | 13 years | ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term |
15 rulers, 15 with terms dated as terms, covering 800 – 1185. Median reign 18 years. 1 of 14 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1000 – 10992 rows
- Giselbert II of Roussillon · ruler · 1025 – 1102
- Gausfred II of Roussillon · ruler · 1000 – 1074
1100 – 11993 rows
- Gausfred III of Roussillon · ruler · 1100 – 1164
- Girard II of Roussillon · ruler · 1101 – 1172
- Girard I of Roussillon · ruler · 1100 – 1113
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood360 years
stood longer than 78% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median18 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 56% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record15
has more rulers on record than 88% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 776 – 1208, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 992, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
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