# Aloer

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'''''Aloers''''' (the word is originally [Catalan](/source/Catalan_language)) were independent [peasant](/source/peasant) proprietors of ''alous'' in what is now [Catalonia](/source/Catalonia),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.termcat.cat/es/cercaterm/fitxa/NDMxODUxMg%3D%3D |title=Aloer/aloera - Cercaterm |language=ca |website=www.termcat.cat |access-date=11 June 2025}}</ref> especially during the years between the [Carolingian](/source/Carolingian) reconquest of the [Hispanic Marches](/source/Marca_Hispanica) from the [Moors](/source/Moors) in the late 9th century and the consolidation of [feudalism](/source/feudalism) in that region in the 11th century. They generally practised family-based [subsistence farming](/source/subsistence_farming).

The owner of property in ''alou'' (from the Frankish ''alôd'' = full domain; [cognate](/source/cognate) with [allodial](/source/allodial)) was considered by medieval jurists to have "''no other lord than God''".

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