OCCU count of BarcelonaBera, count of Barcelona, possibly son of St. William, wasprogenitorof a family that can be traced for several generations, butunfortunatelynot beyond the early tenth century.
Bera called himself a sonof a countWilliam in a charter of 813, and there seems no othercontemporary countWilliam, though St. William names several children in a coupleof chartersbut no Bera. A
chart detailing the descendancy of count Bera isin Ramond'Abadal i de Vinyals, "La institucio comtal carolingia en lapre-Catalunya del segle IX," Anuario de Estudios Medievales 1(1964),29-75,
reprinted in _Dels Visigots als Catalans_, 3d ed., 2vols.(Barcelona, 1986), 1:181-226.
DATE 5 JUL 1997