A Medieval Urban Frontiersman: Pere de Barceló
Jane C. Wilman
A MEDIEVAL URBAN FRONTIERSMAN: PERE DE B R E O C L * Jane C. Wilman The Christians of u r o p e , stunned by t h lightning Moslem strikes deep i n the Gallo-Roman heartland, m a d their bastions in Charlemagne's creation, Spanish March. There c s royal deputies, controlled borders Carolingian Empire from Toulouse, Narbonne and Barcelona. Centered city Barcelona, reconquered Moslems 8 0 1 y Barcelona grew Christian force along French-Spanish Mediterranean. Barcelona's allied with great counties viscounties surrounding became rulers neighbor- ing landlocked kingdom Aragon b marriage 1137 Berenguer I V two-year-old queen Aragon, Petronilla. Their son *I wish gratefully acknowledge grant Institute Medieval Mediterranean Spain for year 1980-81 which enabled me complete this paper. For history growth Cataluna, see d'Abadal de Vinyals, Els primers comtes Catalans (Barcelona, 1958), Pierre Bonnassie, La Catalogue, 2 vols. (Toulouse, 1975-76), Archibald R. Lewis, Development South- ern French Catalan Society, 1964), Santiago S Vidal, grans 1961). F q brief English, J. L. Shneidman, Rise Aragonese- Empire, 1200-1350 (New Y k 1970), v. 1, ch. 6. nature these alliances, Catalogne, masterly work on development Cataluna eleventh centuries. use name forms as they seem have referred themselves those names. See vernacular Ambrosio Huici, ed., Coleccion Diplomatica Jaime I, el Conquistador (Valencia 1916-1922, reedited Maria D. Cabanes-Pecourt press, 1-3 Valencia 1976 ff., 4-6 forthcoming), e.g., . 1156. All place names are ease reference. Pedro Bartibas, Ramiro II Monje las supuestos Cortes g Borja Monzon en 1134 (Santona, 1911); Grans Comtes.
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