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Carving of royal places in Catalonia

Date
1358 - 1359
Archive
Diocesan Archive of Girona – Chapter Archive – Diocesan Library of the Seminary
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT ADG 1 1 1 Calaix 5 n. 31
Link to the archive
Description

It is the oldest known document of this type known for Catalonia.
In 1357, the king of Castile, Pere I the Cruel, invaded Tarassona, violating the truce agreed with Pere III the Ceremonious (War of the Two Peres). In July 1358, the Catalan-Aragonese king convened a parliament in the city of Girona in order to claim a fire that had already been claimed in the Courts of Cervera the previous year, with the aim of raising funds to cover the war expenses (24 sous a year for fire for two years). The intervention of the bishop of Girona Berenguer de Cruïlles – who was also the first president of the Generalitat (1359-1362) – as one of the administrators chosen to carry out the new fogage approved in the courts of Cervera in 1359, explains the existence of this manuscript in the Diocesan Archives of Girona.