Bencion (in
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
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and
Spanish, ''Benció'') (died 916) was the
count of Empúries and
Rosselló from 915 to his death. He was the son of
Sunyer II of Empúries Sunyer (Catalan) or Suñer/Suniario (Spanish), from Latin ''Suniarius'', possibly from Proto-Germanic *sunjō ("truth, protest"), may refer to:
*Sunyer, Count of Barcelona (870–950)
*Sunyer I of Empúries (834–848)
* Sunyer II of Empúr ...
, whom he succeeded.
He married
Godlana, daughter of
Miro the Elder
Miro, called the Old or the Elder (in Catalan, ''Miró el Vell'') was the count of Conflent from 870 and Rosselló ( Roussillon) from 878 until his death in 896. He was the son of Sunifred I, count of Barcelona, Urgell, Cerdanya, and Besalú, an ...
of
Conflent
Conflent () is a historical Catalan comarca of Northern Catalonia, now part of the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales. In the Middle Ages it comprised the County of Conflent.
The capital of this ''pays'' is Prades ( ca, Prada de Conf ...
and Roussillon.
At the death of his father, he and his brother
Gausbert
Gausbert (died 931) was the count of Empúries and Rosselló from 915 until he died. He was the son of Sunyer II of Empúries and brother of Bencion.
With the murder of his father, the counties passed to him and Bencion, but Bencion died in 916 ...
inherited the counties and reigned jointly. He was the first to die and his brother inherited all of his possessions.
, -
916 deaths
Counts of Empúries
Counts of Roussillon
Year of birth unknown
10th-century Catalan people
10th-century Visigothic people
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