County of Pallars Sobirà

The County of Pallars Sobirà or (Pallás) Sobirá,

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By the year 1000, the economic and social centre of Pallars was located in Pallars Jussà. It was wealthier than Pallars Sobirà and capable of expansion in the

Artau II

(1081–1124), is recorded as never having fought with his relatives of Pallars Jussà.

High Middle Ages

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Pallars Sobirà was isolated high in the Pyrenees and of no importance to affairs in Catalonia on a larger scale. Artau III and Artau IV are barely more than names and neither they nor their successors took part in the succession to the county of Pallars Jussà before it passed to the County of Barcelona in 1192.

By 1199, Pallars Sobirà was inherited by a woman, Guillelma, who sold her county to her husband, Roger of Comminges, and retired to a convent.

List of counts

House of Pallars

• William II (1011–1035)
• Bernard II (1035–1049)
• Artau I
  (1049–1081)
• Artau II
  (1081–1124)
• Artau III (1124–1167)
• Artau IV (1167–1180/1182)
• Bernard III (1180/1182–1199)
• Guillemina (1199–1229)

House of Comminges (or Couserans)

• Roger I (1229–1240)
• Roger II (1240–1256)
• Arnau Roger I (1256–1288)
• Raymond Roger I (1288–1295)
• Sibil·la (1295–1330)

House of Mataplana

• Arnau Roger II (1330–1343)
• Raymond Roger II (1343–1350)
• Hugh Roger I (1350–1366)
• Arnau Roger III (1366–1369)
• Hugh Roger II (1369–1416)
• Roger Bernard I (1416–1424)
• Bernard Roger I (1424–1442)
• Arnau Roger IV (1442–1451)
• Hugh Roger III (1451–1487)

Sources

• Freedman, Paul. "Military Orders and Peasant Servitude in Catalonia: Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries." The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 65, No. 1. (Feb., 1985), pp 91–110.

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