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Jaume I

James I
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King of Aragon
Reign 12 September 1213 – 27 July 1276
Predecessor Peter II
Successor Peter III
Born (1208-02-02)2 February 1208
Montpellier
Died 27 July 1276(1276-07-27) (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 in three directions: Languedoc to the north, the Balearic Islands to the south, and Valencia to the southwest. By a treaty with Louis IX of France, he wrested the county of Barcelona from nominal French suzerainty and integrated it into his crown. His part in the Reconquista was similar in Mediterranean Spain to that of his contemporary Ferdinand III of Castile in Andalusia.

As a legislator and organiser, he occupies a high place among the Spanish kings. James compiled the Llibre del Consolat de Mar, which governed maritime trade and helped establish Aragonese supremacy in the western Mediterranean. He was an important figure in the development of the Catalan language, sponsoring Catalan literature and writing a quasi-autobiographical chronicle of his reign: the Llibre dels fets.


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