Sunifred, Count of Barcelona

Sunifred I (died 848) was the count of Urgell and Cerdanya from 834 to 848, and the count of Barcelona as well as many other Catalan and Septimanian counties, including Ausona, Besalú, Girona, Narbonne, Agde, Béziers, Lodève, Melgueil, Conflent and Nîmes, from 844 to 848.

He may have been the son of Belló, Count of Carcassonne, or, more probably, his son-in-law. In 834, he was named Count of Urgell and Cerdanya by Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor; at the time these counties were under the control of Aznar Galíndez I, an ally of the Banu Qasi. Sunifred conquered Cerdanya in 835 and Urgell three years later (838).

In the dynastic struggles that accompanied the three years between Louis the Pious' death (840) and the Treaty of Verdun (843), Bernard of Septimania, Count of Barcelona (and many other marches and counties, including Septimania, Girona, Narbonne, Béziers, Agde, Melgueil, Nîmes and Toulouse), failed to align with Charles the Bald. Bernard did not enter the fray at the Battle of Fontenoy (841), and had to leave his son William as a hostage to guarantee his good behavior in the future. Sunifred, on the other hand, halted a Moor invasion in 841/2, which marched against Narbonne through the region of Cerdanya Sunifred (abbot of Abbey of Arles-sur-Tech) Riculf (Roman Catholic Diocese of Perpignan-Elne) Cixilona