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The Count of Barcelona (Catalan: Comte de Barcelona, Spanish: Conde de Barcelona) was the ruler of Catalonia for much of Catalan history, from the 9th until the 15th century.
The County of Barcelona was created by Charlemagne after he had conquered lands north of the river Ebro. These lands, called the Marca Hispanica, were partitioned into various counties, of which the Count of Barcelona, usually holding other counties simultaneously, eventually obtained the primacy over the region.
As the county became hereditary in one family, the bond of the counts to their Frankish overlords loosened, especially after the Capetian dynasty supplanted the Carolingians.
In the 12th century the Counts formed a dynastic union with the Kingdom of Aragon, merging the two realms under a single ruler. In 1258, the king of France relinquished his feudal authority over the County in the Treaty of Corbeil.
Barcelona remained, as a part of the Principality of Catalonia, part of the Crown of Aragon when the latter around 1500 entered into a union with the Crown of Castile, thereby forming the Spanish Monarchy. Catalonia maintained its own laws, institutions, taxes and privileges until they were removed after the War of the Spanish Succession in the 18th century.
Count of Barcelona remained one of the many hereditary titles of the Spanish monarchy.
In the 20th century, the title regained some prominence when Juan de Borbón, the exiled heir to the Spanish throne, adopted the title of Count of Barcelona. In doing so, he claimed a historical royal title without claiming to be the current king of Spain, especially after his son Juan Carlos became the prospective successor of the then-ruler of Spain, Francisco Franco. In 1977, after Juan Carlos had become King upon Franco's death in 1975, he officially awarded the title of Count of Barcelona to his father, who had renounced his rights to the throne. Juan held that title until his death in 1993, when it reverted to the King who has held it ever since. Juan de Borbón's widow used the title Countess of Barcelona until her death in 2000.
The succession of Ramon Berenguer IV and Petronilla led to the creation of the Crown of Aragon.
|Alphonse I the Troubadour 18 July 1164 – 25 April 1196||||1157 Huesca son of Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Petronilla of Aragon||Sancha of Castile 7 children||25 April 1196 Perpignan aged 44 |- |Peter I the Catholic 25 April 1196 – 13 September 1213||||1178 Huesca son of alfons I and Sancha of Castile||Marie of Montpellier 15 June 1204 2 children||12 September 1213 Battle of Muret aged ca. 35 |- |James I the Conqueror 13 September 1213 – 27 July 1276||||2 February 1208 Montpellier son of Peter I the Catholic and Marie of Montpellier||Leanor of Castile 1221 1 child Violant of Hungary 1235 10 children Teresa Gil de Vidaure 2 children||27 July 1276 Valencia aged 68 |- |Peter II the Great 27 July 1276 – 2 November 1285||||1240 Valencia son of James I and Violant of Hungary||Constance of Sicily 13 June 1262 6 child||2 November 1285 Vilafranca del Penedès aged 45 |- |Alphonse II the Liberal 2 November 1285 – 18 June 1291||||1265 Valencia son of Peter II and Constance of Sicily||Eleanor of England 15 August 1290 No children||18 June 1291 Barcelona aged 27 |- |James II the Fair 18 June 1291 – 2 November 1327||||10 August 1267 Valencia son of Peter II and Constance of Sicily||Isabella of Castile 1 December 1291 No children Blanche of Anjou 29 October 1295 10 children Marie de Lusignan 15 June 1315 No children Elisenda de Montcada 25 December 1322 No children||5 November 1327 Barcelona aged 60 |- |Alphonse III the Kind 2 November 1327 – 24 January 1336||||1299 Naples son of James II of Aragon and Blanche of Anjou||Teresa d'Entença 1314 7 children Eleanor of Castile 2 children||27 January 1336 Barcelona aged 37 |- |Peter III the Ceremonious 24 January 1336 – 5 January 1387||||5 October 1319 Balaguer son of Alphonse III and Teresa d'Entença||Maria of Navarre 1338 2 children Leonor of Portugal 1347 No children Eleanor of Sicily 4 children||5 January 1387 Barcelona aged 68 |- |John the Hunter 5 January 1387 – 19 May 1396||||27 December 1350 Perpignan son of Peter III and Eleanor of Sicily||Martha of Armagnac 1 child Yolande of Bar 3 children||19 May 1396 Foixà aged 46 |- |Martin the Humanist 19 May 1396 – 31 May 1410||||1356 Girona son of Peter III and Eleanor of Sicily||Maria de Luna 13 June 1372 4 children Margaret of Prades 1409 No children||31 May 1410 Barcelona aged 54 |- |}
Martin was the last direct descendant of Wilfred the Hairy to rule; died without legitimate heirs (interregnum 31 May 1410 – 24 June 1412). By the Compromise of Caspe of 1412 the County of Barcelona and all its associated dominions passed to a branch of the House of Trastámara.
The County of Barcelona formed a constituent part of the Crown of Spain under the rule of the House of Habsburg, until the Nueva Planta decrees (1707 and 1716), when Philip de Bourbon declared that all the territories from the Crown of Aragon should merge into Castile, building the centralized Kingdom of Spain. In Barcelona this was promulgated in 1716, and the title of Count of Barcelona became one of the many unused hereditary titles of the modern Spanish monarchy.
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