Count Suñer I (also Sunyer, Suniario; died in 1010) was sovereign Count of Pallars from 948 until his death. He was also the Count of Ribagorza de iure uxoris ("by his marriage").

Biography

Count Suñer was a son of the Count Lope I of Pallars and his spouse, Goltregoda of Cerdanya.

Sunyer I of Pallars

He was thus a younger brother of the Count Borrell I of Pallars and the Count Raymond II of Pallars.

Sunyer I of Pallars

Suñer succeeded his father and his uncle, Isarn, Count of Pallars. Suñer ruled together with his brothers, who died in 995.

Sunyer I of Pallars

From 995 until his death, Suñer ruled Pallars together with his paternal nephew, Ermengol I of Pallars (the son of Borrell I).

Marriages and children

Suñer was first married to Ermengarda/Ermentruda, his sister-in-law (the former wife of Borrell). Suñer and his sister-in-law were the parents of two sons – Raymond III of Pallars Jussà and William II of Pallars Sobirà – and a daughter, Ermengarda. The second consort of Suñer's was Countess Toda of Ribagorza, daughter of his cousin Raymond II, Count of Ribagorza.

Notes

Counts of Pallars

1010 deaths

10th-century Catalan people