L'alta noblesa catalana en la conquesta de València

Abstract

The studies about the conquest of Valence by the king Jaume I during the Xlllth century had emphasized the more great participation of the Aragonese nobility rather than the Catalan, so in the war as in the repartition of the land and the seigniories. Also it's affirmed that the Aragonese people remained in the Vanencian country, though the Catalans only came by religious reasons and went back to their land. This paper revises all the royal documents of the chancellery, the donations of the Repartiment and also the chronique of the king Jaume I, and demonstrates the opposed situation. The participation of the catalans nobility in the conquest of Valencia was very important —more than 150 knights—, but with certain characteristics that are explicated in the study; basically, it's underlined the variations in the participation of one or another nobiliary family during the military wars of 1237-1238, 1244- 1245 and it was decissory in this question the alternative war among the nobiliary groups of Catalonia during the Xlllth century.