Legend has it that King Guifré I el Pelós (840-897), Count of Barcelona, Cerdanya, Urgell, Conflent, Besalú, Girona and Manresa and founder of the national Catalan dynasty was responsible for the four stripes of the Catalan "senyera", although the flag was really based on the seal of Count Ramon Berenguer IV (12th Century

King Jaume I, the Conqueror (1208 -1276), King of Aragon, Majorca and Valencia, Count of Barcelona and Urgell and Lord of Montpeller (1213-1276). Son and successor of Pere I the Catholic to the throne of the Crown of Aragon. Father of Pere el Gran and Jaume II of Majorca. He was instructed as king by the Templar knights at the age of 6 and reined for 63 years.

Otger Cataló, a legendary character who is thought to have founded Catalonia. Nursed by a sheep and his wounds healed by a greyhound, he ended up fleeing the Saracens with the help of the Nou Barons de La Fama: the knights of Alemany, Anglesola, Cervelló, Cervera, Erill, Mataplana, Montcada, Pinós and Ribelles.

King Martí l'Humà, also known as the Ecclesiastic (1356-1410), Count of Barcelona and King of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia (1396-1410) and Sicily (1409-1410) and Count of Empúries (1402) and (1407-1410). Upon his death, the interregnum began that was to end with the 1412 Compromiso de Caspe Agreement. He was the last king, by direct lineage, of the House of Barcelona.