Pau Claris
| Pau Claris i Casademunt | |
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| 94th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya | |
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In office July 22, 1638 – January 26, 1641 |
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| Preceded by | Miquel d'Alentorn i de Salbà |
| Succeeded by | Josep Soler |
| 1st Acting President of the Catalan Republic | |
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In office January 17, 1641 – January 23, 1641 |
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| Preceded by | Himself, as President of the Generalitat de Catalunya |
| Succeeded by |
Baldomer Lostau In 1873 |
| Personal details | |
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January 1, 1586 Barcelona |
| Died | February 27, 1641 (aged 55) Barcelona |
| Political party | None |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Pau Claris i Casademunt (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈpaw ˈkɫaɾis]; January 1, 1586 – February 27, 1641) was a Catalan lawyer, clergyman and 94th President of the Deputation of the General of Catalonia at the beginning of the Catalan Revolt. On January 16, 1641, he proclaimed the Catalan Republic under the protection of France.
Claris was born in Barcelona (then in the Principality of Catalonia). His paternal family was from Berga, and both his grandfather, Francesc, and his father, Joan, were prominent jurists in Barcelona. His mother was Peronella Casademunt. Pau was the youngest of four brothers, and his older brother, Francesc, was a lawyer who had a strong influence on his brother's path toward politics. The Claris family belonged to the Barcelonan bourgeois and had significant economic and administrative power.
While it is possible that his education may have been more extensive, it is only clear that Pau Claris received a doctorate in civil law and canon law from the University of Barcelona, and that he studied the course during the period between 1604 and 1612.
On August 28, 1612, Claris was appointed to work in La Seu d'Urgell, the seat of the Bishop of Urgell and Andorra. On September 25 of the same year, he was appointed canon, and was assigned to the Diocese of Urgell.
In 1626, Claris was elected as a representative of the church at the Corts Catalanes (Parliament of Catalonia), which opened on March 28 amid a troublesome political situation after the new king of Spain, Philip IV, would not ratify the Catalan constitutions, due to tax reasons and the question of whether royal officers had to follow the Catalan law. The Catalan church had been exhausted by the royal taxes and was against the practice of nominating bishops from Castile to Catalan dioceses. The refusal to pay a tax of 3,300,000 ducats caused the immediate departure of the king to Madrid.
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