Comtal

The eight principal magistrates, or Capitouls, acquire nobility in virtue of their election, transmit it to their posterity, and are the only municipal officers in the kingdom who are entitled to wear the Comtal robe.

In the early twelfth century its heiress married an obscure knight called Guillem Ramón (1090-1173), who rose to be ‘Great Seneschal’ at the comtal court.