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, Cerdanya, County of Conflent,

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, and numerous other Catalan and Septimanian counties and marches in the 9th and 10th centuries. His most famous grandson was Wilfred the Hairy, who founded the

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, rulers of the

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from 878,Martin Aurell,
"Les noces du comte: Mariage et pouvoir en Catalogne (785-1213)"
' Vol. 73, No. 4 (Oct., 1998), pp. 1102–1104 Published by: Medieval Academy of America. and since 1164 the

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, until the end of the reign of Martin the Humane in 1410. Since the early years of the 10th century all of the eastern counties of the March of Barcelona, and the counties of Conflent,

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and Razès of the March of Gothia, were ruled by Belló's descendants. This would have favored the co-ruling of some territories, and a clan-like network of mutual support, although they would have also been exposed to the risk of

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.Regarding the problem of consanguineous marriage among the Bellonids, see M. Aurell, ''Les noces del comte: matrimoni i poder a Catalunya (785-1213)'', Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 1998, pp. 28–41.

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