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  • 20 - The rise of Aragon-Catalonia

  • from Part V - The Mediterranean Frontiers
  • David Abulafia, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    21 October 1999, pp 644-667

  • Summary

    The rise of Aragon' is a term that hides a great deal: in the thirteenth century it was not so much the highland kingdom of Aragon, from which they drew their royal title, as the seaboard county of Barcelona. By the start of the thirteenth century certain broad features can be assigned to Catalonia-Aragon. Under James I, the power and in many respects the character of the monarchy was transformed. His own birth was widely viewed as a miracle, not least because of the cordial loathing of Peter II for Maria of Montpellier, but the true miracle was the survival of Peter's bloodline. In 1233 James, newly victorious in the Balearics, was able to redeem his earlier failure at Peniscola, and to capture Burriana, from which the Muslim population was cleared. Louis IX was another of James I's neighbours, and it is now time to turn to Aragonese relations with the French monarchy and with the rulers of the Pyrenees.