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Kingdom of Majorca | |||||||||||
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| 1229–1715 | |||||||||||
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 The Kingdom of Majorca in the 13th and 14th centuries | |||||||||||
| Capital | Palma and Perpignan | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Catalan | ||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism (official)[1] Islam Judaism | ||||||||||
| Government | Aragonese led-Royal Constitutional Monarchy | ||||||||||
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• Established | 1229 | ||||||||||
| 1715 | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Spain France | ||||||||||
The Kingdom of Majorca (Catalan: Regne de Mallorca, IPA: [ˈreŋnə ðə məˈʎɔɾkə]; Spanish: Reino de Mallorca; Latin: Regnum Maioricae; French: Royaume de Majorque) was a realm on the east coast of Spain, which included certain Mediterranean Islands, and which was founded by James I of Aragon, also known as James the Conqueror after his Conquest of Majorca from the Muslim Almohad Caliphate.
In a will written in 1262 after the death of his firstborn son Alfonso, he ceded the kingdom to his third son James. The disposition was maintained during successive versions of his will and so when James the Conqueror died in 1276, the Crown of Aragon passed to his eldest surviving son Peter, known as Peter III of Aragon or Peter the Great. The Kingdom of Majorca passed to James, who reigned under the name of James II of Majorca.
After 1279, Peter III of Aragon established that the King of Majorca was a vassal to the King of Aragon, but this caused tensions between the two Kingdoms in the following decades. Finally, in 1344 the Kingdom of Majorca was invaded by King Peter IV of Aragon and brought under the Crown of Aragon, remaining a constituent Kingdom, but with the same King, until its dissolution in 1715 by one of the Nueva Planta decrees.
- ^ Hughes, Robert (2011). Barcelona. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 3. ISBN 978-0307764614.