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There is a rather large and well-preserved series of records for the reign of
Raymond IV largely because he pioneered the use of written conventions for the making of agreements in Pallars. In this he was helped along by the same scribe who had at times served his father since 1040 and who had worked
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Stasser, 15. Raymond must have been born after his parents' marriage in 1027×29, and is first mentioned in a document of 1044. He had a younger brother, Sunyer II, who is sometimes also styled count and who was excommunicated in
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57:, yet it was transformative in the history of Pallars through the new modes of exercising comital power that Raymond introduced. The viscounties of Pallars Jussà during the time of Raymond IV were
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Raymond exacted a collective oath from the general public, claiming to rely on precedent established earlier that century by his father Raymond III and uncle
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Raymond and Ficapal, spouse of Sibila and vassal of the count, reached an agreement on the castles of Guilareny and Vallferrera
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123:Vallferrera
118:Reconquista
106:Arnau Ramon
87:Carolingian
47:Raymond III
448:Categories
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102:Pere Ramon
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205:Castellet
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63:Bellera
59:Vilamur
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161:villae
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67:Orcau
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