County of Pallars

The County of Pallars was the Pyrenean petty state of the upper Noguera Pallaresa, from the crest to Tremp, holding the Aneou, Cardos, Ferrera and Flamicell valleys and the right bank of the Ribagorçana through the ninth and tenth centuries, the historic region called Pallars. Easternmost Basque ground turned Carolingian march, it came with Ribagorza under Toulouse around 781, a new high province of proud vassals on the roof of the world, remote, free and wild. Its chief city was Sort, its counts answered Toulouse and then themselves: Raymond from 872, Lope, Isarn, Raymond the Second, Sunyer dead 1011. Alaon's 1078 myth tells Bernard and Ato granting Frankish-style, Gerri monastery rising under Urgell's crozier, Aquitaine's Pepin overlording in 817, the land not yet feudalised. and in 1011 the county split into Pallars Jussa below and Sobira above, ending a hundred forty years of old mountain unity in the stern green country.