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Letter from Joan de Beumont, lieutenant of Henry IV of Castile, Count of Barcelona, ​​to the Captains of Banyoles.

Date
1463
Archive
Plan de l’Estany County Archive
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-ACPE-4-T2-4331
Link to the online document
Description

This document from 1463, preserved in the Regional Archives of Pla de l’Estany, is a letter from Joan de Beumont, lieutenant of Henry IV of Castile, to the Captains of Banyoles. It is one of the few preserved testimonies about the War of Remences, a social and political conflict that deeply marked late medieval Catalonia. The document reflects the complexity of the alliances and tensions between institutions, lords and the peasantry. It is an example of how local archives can preserve key pieces to understand the origins of parliamentarism and the struggle for social justice, values ​​that have contributed to the construction of modern Europe.