The valley of Andorra Author:Jean-François Bladé Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. JOINT LORDS OF THE VALLEY UNTIL THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. LAY LORDS. By the decree resulting from the arbitration in 1278, the sovereignty of t... more »he Valley of Andorra belonged to the Counts de Foix and the Bishops of the See of Urgel. Roger I.,1 Count de Carcassonne, was the first Count de Foix. He died in 1040, leaving the province of Carcassonne to Raymond, his elder son, and the district of Foix to Bernard, the younger. By various successions the inheritance of Foix fell to Raymond-Roger, who interested himself in the war against the Albigeois, sometimes with success, oftener with loss, and was obliged at last to sue for peace. He marriedPhilippine d'Aragon, daughter of the King Don Pedro, and died in 1222. 1 For a list of the Counts de Foix see Appendix C. Roger-Bernard II., son and successor of the foregoing, married Ermengarde de Cas- telbo, who brought to the house of Foix the land of Castelbo, in which was embraced the Valley of Andorra. It was thus that Roger-Bernard II. and his successors became possessed of rights in the valley granted to their predecessors by the Counts of Urgel, excepting those accorded by the said Counts to the Bishops of the See. After the death of the heiress of Castelb6 Roger-Bernard married Ermengarde de Narbonne. He died in 1264, leaving a son and heir, Roger-Bernard III. The rights in the valley conceded by the Counts of Urgel to various prelates of the See were incontestable. Equally so were the rights, purely seignioral, which were not thus alienated, and which passed to the house of Castelb6, of which the heiress married Roger-Bernard II., Count de Foix. These involved and conflicting claims led to prolonged suits andwars, which were settled by arbitration in the year 1278. The decree is known as the Pareages. T...« less