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Campdevànol, Ripollès, Girona

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Grats

Monument · Campdevànol, Ripollès, Girona

Name of a former quadra, or territorial division, of Campdevànol, at the head of the Grats stream, a tributary of the Merdàs, where there once stood a castle, probably on the summit of the Eruga mountain; a farmhouse in the municipality still bears the name Grats. The castle is documented in 904, in a trial presided over by Count Miró of Cerdanya-Besalú, in which the proxy of Abbess Emma of Sant Joan de les Abadesses claimed lands that included it. Between 1050 and 1068, Bernat, viscount of Cerdanya, swore fealty to Count Ramon for the castles of Grats and Ribes. Having lost its status as a castle, it came to depend as a quadra on the castle of Blancafort, in the Gombrèn valley; in 1370 the Figuera and Grats farmhouses were in the hands of the lord of Solanllong, under the barons of Mataplana.

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