{{Short description|12th-century Spanish noble}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand Catalan|topic=bio|date=February 2025}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|date=February 2025}} }} '''Gerard II''' (''Girard'' in French and ''Gerard'' in Catalan, ''Gerardo'' in Spanish) was the last ''de facto'' independent count of Roussillon from 1164 to his death in 1172. He was the son and heir of Gausfred III.<ref name="n398">{{cite book | last=Daileader | first=Philip | title=True Citizens: Violence, Memory, and Identity in the Medieval Community of Perpignan, 1162-1397 | publisher=BRILL | date=2021-10-01 | isbn=978-90-04-47659-2 | url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/True_Citizens/ms1GEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Girard+II+of+Roussillon&pg=PA73&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-07-24 | page=73}}</ref><ref name="u416">{{cite book | last=McDougall | first=Sara | title=Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230 | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=2017 | isbn=978-0-19-878582-8 | url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Royal_Bastards/yxc1DQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Girard+II+of+Roussillon&pg=PA172&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-07-24 | page=172}}</ref>
As his father before him, he affirmed treaties of peace with the counts of Ampurias. He inherited a weakened county and was made to do homage to the king of Aragón and count of Barcelona, Alfonso II, to whom he ceded the county when he died without heirs.
==References== {{Reflist}} {{S-start}} {{S-bef|before=Gausfred III}} {{S-ttl|title=Count of Roussillon|years=1164–1172}} {{S-aft|after=Alfonso II of Aragon}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Girard 02 Of Roussillon}} Category:Counts of Roussillon Category:1172 deaths Category:Year of birth unknown Category:12th-century Catalan people
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