 His lands were clustered in the north of Cerdanya, in the Segre valley and Conflent with their centre at Merencs.He put his lands under the nominal suzerainty of the count of Toulouse and tried to draw them away from Cerdanya.Bernard was forced to make peace with Raymond in 1047 and his allodial lands were handed over, though he was compensated with more fiefdoms from the count.