Ermenguer

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Ermenguer was the first known ruler of the county of Empúries (813-817, attested).

It seems that he was a Goth, a member of the local nobility. He was given the county when the region was stabilised under the Franks, but it was given to Gaucelm, count of Roussillon, four years later.