Raymond I, Count of Pallars and Ribagorza

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raymond I (Catalan: Ramon, Spanish: Raimundo) (died 920) was the first independent Count of Pallars and Ribagorza from 872 until his death. Early speculation made him a scion of the Counts of Toulouse, but he is certainly the "Regimundo comite, filio Luponi comiti . . . in pago Paliarensi" of a 920 document.. His father may have been the Basque count Lupus I of Bigorre and during his lifetime Pallars represented the easternmost extent of the Basque language. Raymond was a local nobleman who in the aftermath of the assassination of Bernard II of Toulouse by partisans of Bernard Plantapilosa (872) seized authority for himself in Pallars and Ribagorza. The exact circumstances surrounding his rise are obscure, but he had probably held lands south of the Pyrenees from the County of Toulouse prior to gaining independence.