What do you do with a problem like Vives?

We go back, with this post, to January of 2022, when I was slowly doing my first pass through the newly edited charters of the Barcelona area in the Catalunya Carolíngia series.1 I should explain why. I have ambitions, you may remember, to write a life-and-times study of Count-Marquis Borrell II of Barcelona. Since there are only fragments of narrative which mention him, all more or less incompletely informed, that has to be done from the charters.2 This is one of a good few sentences I&r