Rampó, Count Of Barcelona

Rampon (Rampó) was the second count of the

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and

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from 820 until his death in 825. After

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was deposed,

Louis the Pious Louis the Pious (german: Ludwig der Fromme; french: Louis le Pieux; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aqui ...

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, gave his lands to a nobleman unconnected to the factional struggles that had developed in the

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. He chose the

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Rampon, who had been a faithful servant to his father

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. He had been given the responsibility of telling Louis, then

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, of his father Charlemagne's death in

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, at the beginning of 814. Rampon was ruler of Barcelona,

Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan language, Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter River, Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in ...

, and

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with the title of Count, but possibly also

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; the latter title was reserved only for the rulers of border counties. In 821, the Court at

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ordered him to attack

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territory, an order which he carried out in 822, ransacking land up to the river Segre. Rampon died in 825. However, it was not until an assembly in Aachen in February 826 that Louis designated his successor to be

Bernard of Septimania Bernard (or Bernat) of Septimania (795–844), son of William of Gellone, was the Frankish Duke of Septimania and Count of Barcelona from 826 to 832 and again from 835 to his execution. He was also count of Carcassonne from 837. He was appointed t ...

, the son of

William of Gellone William of Gellone ( 755 – 28 May 812 or 814), the medieval William of Orange, was the second Duke of Toulouse from 790 until 811. In 804, he founded the abbey of Gellone. He was canonized a saint in 1066 by Pope Alexander II.

, Count of

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, and younger half-brother of

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and

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