Innocent III and the Crown of Aragon by Damian J. Smith

Author:Damian J. Smith [Smith, Damian J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Rome
ISBN: 9780754634928
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Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2004-01-15T01:28:22+00:00

Notes

1De Miseria, pt. 3, ch.1, p. 204.

2Llibre dels Fets, ch. 11. D. Kagay, ‘The line between memoir and history: James I of Aragon and the Llibre del Feyts’, Mediterranean Historical Review, 11 (1996), pp. 165–76, has pointed to the account of the early years of James’s life in his autobiography as one of the ‘foggy patches’, ‘supplemented with tradition’, in which the young ruler was inclined to see treachery everywhere.

3Ferdinand is already styled ‘gubernator aragone et ripacurcie’ in March and May of 1214 (AHN, Clero, carpetas, San Victorián, 769, nos. 16–17). At the treaty of Mallén of 4 June 1209 (ACA, perg. Pere I, no. 323), Peter had named his brother Alfonso as his heir. Ferdinand’s role in the minority is described in Llibre dels Fets, chs. 11–29. On King Ramiro II ‘the monk’ (1134–7), see especially F. Balaguer Sanchez, ‘Notas documentales sobre el reinado de Ramiro II’, EEMCA, 3 (1947–8), pp. 29–54 and S. de Vajay, ‘Ramire II le moine, roi d’Aragon et Agnés de Poitou dans l’histoire et dans la légende’, Mélanges René Crozet, 2 vols, Paris 1966, 2, pp. 727–50. At some stage, Ferdinand gave to Sancho VII of Navarre rights over various castles with the promise of Tiermas and Salvatierra ‘si Deus dederit mihi regnum aragonie’. The document is undated and while Marichalar placed it in 1232, during negotiations for the treaty of mutual adoption between Sancho and James I (Colección Diplomática del rey Don Sancho VII, no. 180, pp. 213–14) an earlier date (certainly before the birth of James’s son Alfonso) seems preferable.

4The best justification of Sanç’s actions as procurator is S. Sanpere y Miguel, ‘Minoría de Jaime I’. This should be read alongside Soldevila, Els Primers Temps de Jaume I. In 1183, Alfonso II had enfeoffed the counties of Rodez, Gévaudan and Carlat to Sanç (ACA, perg. Alfons I, no. 364; Documentos de Alfonso II, no. 367) but in 1184 Sanç concluded a treaty with the counts of Toulouse and Forcalquier as well as with Genoa in order to take Marseilles from Alfonso (Liber lurium, 1, no. 313). Sanç was subsequently demoted (Aurell, ‘L’ expansion catalane’, p. 183).

5Gesta Comitum Barcinonensium, ch. 27, p. 56; also Llibre dels Fets, ch. 12, pp. 48–9; Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña, ch. 35, p. 61.

6Llibre dels Fets, ch. 11, p. 48; T. Bisson, ‘The Finances of the Young James I (1213–1228)’, in Medieval France and her Pyrenean Neighbours: Studies in Early Institutional History, London 1989, pp.351–92.

7By 1212, Peter certainly owed Guillem Durfort sixty thousand sueldos (ACB, 4–82–60). On Guillem, and others who contended with the fiscal problems during the minority, see Bensch, Barcelona and Its Rulers, especially pp. 209–19; also, Fiscal Accounts, 1, pp. 122–50. On the other two Guillems, see Bisson, ‘Finances’, passim. On the Church, Vincke, Staat and Kirche, pp. 261, 264.

8After Muret, the chaos in Catalonia allowed Guerau to take control of the county from Elvira (S. Sobrequés, Els barons de Catalunya,, Barcelona 1957, pp. 65–6). The minority council accepted Guerau’s possession ofUrgell as a fact and in 1217, 1222, and 1223 (H,, 1, nos.

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