Resumen de An important political discourse pro-Judicate of Arborea drawn up in the capital of the Catalan-Aragonese Regnum Sardinie et Corsice (14th-15th c.)
Around the mid-fourteenth century, the relationship between the kings of Aragon, as sovereign of the Regnum Sardinie et Corsice, and the judges of Arborea started to change after about thirty years of peaceful co-existence in the limited insular space. The judge Mariano IV had to decide whether to remain a loyal vassal of the Aragonese king – resigning himself to see inevitably reduced its role – or reacting to the king Pedro IV’s policy of ever greater political and institutional centralisation.
The Aragonese king wanted to consolidate its rule on the island, where the judge – a vassal too powerful and dangerous – occupied a significant portion of land that separated into two parts the Regnum, making communication difficult. The Catalan-Aragonese sources are almost the only ones that allow to reconstruct in enough detail the course of events. In this context the Memoria de las cosas que han aconteçido en algunas partes del reino de Cerdeña has an important role in providing an island vision of the events.
This island source participated in that clash between Aragonese and Sardinians, even creating a kin relationship between the dynasty of Arborea’s rulers and the Navarre royal family, following the casting away of an unspecified princess in Ogliastra, on the eastern coast of Sardinia, in the mid-eleventh century.
