Jaime I of Aragon
| James I | |
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| King of Aragon | |
| Reign | 12 September 1213 – 27 July 1276 |
| Predecessor | Peter II |
| Successor | Peter III |
| Born |
2 February 1208 Montpellier |
| Died | 27 July 1276 (aged 68) Alzira, Valencia |
| Burial | Poblet Monastery |
| Consort |
Eleanor of Castile Violant of Hungary Teresa Gil de Vidaure |
| Issue among others... |
Violant, Queen of Castile Constance, Lady of Villena Peter III, King of Aragon James II, King of Majorca Isabella, Queen of France |
| House | Barcelona |
| Father | Peter II, King of Aragon |
| Mother | Maria of Montpellier |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
James I the Conqueror (Catalan: Jaume el Conqueridor, Aragonese: Chaime lo Conqueridor, Occitan: Jacme lo Conquistaire, Spanish: Jaime el Conquistador; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and Valencia from 1238 to 1276. His long reign—the longest of any Iberian monarch—saw the expansion of the House of Aragon and House of Barcelona in three directions: Languedoc to the north, the Balearic Islands to the southeast, and Valencia to the south. By a treaty with Louis IX of France, he wrested the county of Barcelona from nominal French suzerainty and integrated it into his crown, also he renounced to expand north and take back the once catalan territories in Occitania and vassal counties loyal to the County of Barcelona that were lost by his father Peter II of Aragon in the Battle of Muret during the Albigensian Crusade and annexed by the Kingdom of France, so he then decided to turn south. His great part in the Reconquista was similar in Mediterranean Spain to that of his contemporary Ferdinand III of Castile in Andalusia. One of the main reasons for this formal renounce on most of the once Catalan territories in Languedoc and Occitania and any posible expansion there, we can find it in the fact that he was raised by the templars (crussaders), the ones who defeated his father fighting for the Pope, alongside the French, so it was almost forbidden for him to try to mantain anyhow the traditional influence of the Count of Barcelona that used to have in Occitania and mainly Languedoc.
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