Couserans county

Couserans arms shield.

Conserans in Gascony in 1150.

Conserans (blue) in Ariège

The County of Couserans was a county located in the south of France in the Middle Ages. Until 983 it was part of the county of Cominges from which it was separated when it was assigned to Roger I of Cominges, co-count of Cominges, count of Carcassonne and of Rasez, son of Arnaldo I of Cominges and Estefanía de Carcassonne.

Bernard I Roger, son of Roger I the Elder, succeeded him as Count of Couserans and Lord of Foix in 1012. During Bernard I Roger's tenure, the lordship of Foix was elevated to county status.

In 1144, on the death of Bernard III of Cominges, to whom the Couserans region belonged, it was converted into a viscounty for his son Roger I of Couserans.