E-Spania (Oct 2017)
El regne de Mallorca, la corona d’Aragó i França al començament del segle XIV
Abstract
Towards the end of the 13th century the kingdom of Majorca strengthened its relationsships with the Crown of Aragon, once it obtained its renounciation to its claims upon the Belarics islands, through the Argelers agreement. Together, the two states created by James I the Conqueror’s anachronistic policy towards his own succession, opposed the French advance towards the Pyrenees and the Corberes mountains; they also resisted Ligurian hostility towards them in the both basin of the Mediterranean. The alliance, however, entailed costs for James II of Majorca, who was not able to force the Catalan merchants to the payment of the new Baleaic Islands tariff. It also entailed costs for his homonymous nephew in Aragon, who had to accept the setting up of an independent monetary system in the Balearic enclave as well as the proliferation of Majorican consulates in the Maghrib. At the same time, the gouvernments of Barcelona and Perpignan, throuhgh a joint diplomatic pressure, obtained substancial results in theirs respective conflicts with the French monarchy; by 1313, at the Treatise of Poissy the commercial traffic in the Gulf of Leon and the Pyrenean border was normalized, some mechanisms for the compensation of the afecteds by the reciprocal confiscations of goods were established, and the Valley of Aran was returned and reintegrated into Catalonia.
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