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Privilege of Martí l’Humà in which he grants, in perpetuity, the right of free passage through the places and towns of l’Arboç and Vilafranca del Penedès to the prohoms and the inhabitants of the castle and the district of Banyeres del Penedès.

Date
1401
Archive
County Archive of Baix Penedès
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-ACBP-300-148-11
Link to the online document
Description

It is a document on parchment (330 x 455 mm) issued in Barcelona on April 9, 1401, which belongs to a collection of parchments of the Ajuntament de Banyeres del Penedès of great historical value. The moment when King Martí granted the privilege to the prohoms and the inhabitants of the castle and the town of Banyeres, is part of a wider historical context marked by the beginnings of one of the most ambitious construction projects of the time, the construction of the Santa Creu hospital in Barcelona, ​​the incorporation of the county of Empúries, the survival of the Western Schism, the conflicts on the island of Sardinia and the incursions of piracy in the Catalan coasts.