Aleran [SEP] place of death
Aleran
Aleran was the Count of Barcelona from 848 to 852. He was also Count of Empúries and Roussillon and Margrave of Septimania together with Isembart from 849 or 850 to 852.
He was a Frankish nobleman loyal to Charles the Bald, King of West Francia. At the Assembly of Narbonne in 849, he and Isembart were empowered to consolidate the territory for the Frankish Kingdom and bring the Hispanic Marches held by rebel forces loyal to Pepin II back into control of the kingdom.
Aleran died sometime in 851 or
the Strong.
Like the rest of his family, he was a loyal follower of Charles the Bald. Though well-endowed with estates in Austrasia, like his brother Robert, he abandoned these after the Treaty of Verdun (843) in order to rejoin Charles the Bald. In 846, he was granted lands in the region of Châteaudun, made Count of Anjou, and wed to Wandilmodis.
In 852, after the death of Aleran, Count of Troyes, he was nominated to hold his vacant office