| My duty is to the people of my viscounty, to guide them in peace and defend them in war. |
| This Xth century castle was the administrative centre of the viscounty in the Middle Ages. |
| And one year later Ramon Berenguer strengthened his ties to Guillem Ramon by confirming his guardianship of the heir to the viscounty of Bas. |
| In 1290 the viscounty passed to the counts of Foix, from whom it was transmitted to the kings of Navarre. |
| He was succeeded in the peerage by his nephew, who, however, inherits only the viscounty. |
| Led by Simon de Montfort, northern barons attacked towns in the viscounty of Béziers and later in the county of Toulouse with singular fury. |
