These counts were also
counts of Empúries. By this time the counts were practically independent. •
Sunifred II (895–915) •
Bencion (915–916) •
Gausbert (915–931) •
Gausfred I, also known as Wilfred, (931–991) The counts hereafter were no longer counts of Empúries. •
Giselbert I, also known as Guislabert, (991–1014) •
Gausfred II (1014–1074) •
Giselbert II (1074–1102) •
Girard I, also known as Guinard, (1102–1113) •
Gausfred III (1113–1164) •
Girard II (1164–1172), died without heirs After Girard II, the county of Roussillon was subsumed within the
Crown of Aragón. Later, the title was briefly revived. •
Sancho (1209–1223), also count of
Cerdanya •
Nuño Sancho (1223–1242), also count of
Cerdanya Nuño Sancho died without issue and Roussillon was subsumed by • King
James I of Aragon (1242–1276). Before dying in 1276, he gave Roussillon to his second surviving son
James, who also became King of Majorca. For subsequent counts of Roussillon (and Cerdanya), see
Kingdom of Majorca (1276–1344). The County of Roussillon, and the rest of the Kingdom of Mallorca, was reunited with the Kingdom of Aragon after
a military campaign in 1343-1344 by King
Peter IV of Aragon. •
French occupation (1462–1492). The County of Roussillon was occupied by France, but returned to Aragon in the
Treaty of Barcelona (1493). In the
Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), the County of Roussillon was definitively ceded to the Kingdom of France. ==French counts==