For a History of the Tax Burden from the Christian Majorca (13th-14th centuries)

Abstract

Constituted like an independent kingdom, with the later aggregate of Ibiza -1235-, Majorca happens to integrate - 1276- in a set with own monarch divided between the Balearic islands (will also include built-in Menorca in 1294) and possessions in the French south, but it continues being fiscally independent, in spite of to have seen forced its first monarch to swear fidelity to the one of Aragon. It is when the Aragonese crown absorbs the kingdom of Majorca in 1349 that its fiscality happens to be employee of the necessities of the peninsular territories and is subordinated to outer companies that exceed their tax collecting capacity. The pressure of the monarch, surrounded in multiple outer warlike conflicts, the climatic and epidemics crises, the interests of their social groups and a high level of corruption, constitutes a conglomerate of causes that at the beginning of the five hundred ruins the Majorcan public finances, that are in situation of dependency of the creditors until entered century XIX.