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Guadalupe arbitration ruling promulgated by King Ferdinand II of Aragon ending the conflict between the lords and the farmers of Remença.

Date
1486
Archive
Archive of the Crown of Aragon
Document type
Textual
Reference code
ES.08019.ACA//ACA,COLECCIONES,Memoriales,67
Link to the online document
Description

The arbitral ruling of Guadalupe meant the end of the long and bloody conflict that for years had confronted the lords with the peasants of Remenza, with the definitive abolition of bad uses and many other minor lordly abuses. The peasants retained the useful domain of the farm, although they had to pay tribute to the lord and pay emphyteutic and feudal rights. The Archive of the Crown of Aragon preserves the original parchment of the sentence, written in Spanish, its registered copy and two incunabula editions. The one presented here is the oldest known of its Catalan translation. It can be safely dated before August 24, 1487, when it was deposited in the Royal Archives, as certified by its archivist, Pere Miquel Carbonell.