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	Kingdom of Majorca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1344, James III was dispossessed of the kingdom by Peter IV of Aragon, his cousin and overlord, and was killed attempting to recover it in 1349.
		Alfonso (Alfons) II (Alfonso III of Aragon, known as the liberal, in the sense of "generous"), conquered the island of Majorca in 1285 and Ibiza in 1286 from James II of Majorca, and effectively recovered Minorca from Moorish domination.
		James (Jaume) III (reigned 1324–1344]]; died 1349), and also was Lord of Morea, titled as Prince of Achaia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Majorca (325 words)

	James II of Majorca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James II (Catalan: Jaume II) was king of Majorca and Lord of Montpellier from 1243 until 1311.
		James inherited from his father a vast realm including three of the Balearic Islands (Majorca, Ibiza and Formentera), the counties of Roussillon and Cerdanya, the dominion of Montpellier, the barony of Aumelàs, and the viscounty of Carladès.
		In the Aragonese Crusade, James allied with Pope Martin IV and king Philip III of France (the widower of his sister, Isabella) against his brother, but was defeated in the Battle of the Ant Islands in 1285.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_II_of_Majorca (362 words)

	Majorca - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Majorca is mountainous in the northwest, rising to 4,739 ft (1,444 m) in the Puig Major; the south and east form a gently rolling, fertile region.
		In 1276 the kingdom of Majorca was formed from the inheritance of James I of Majorca.
		Majorca is known for its stalagmite caves and for its architectural treasures and prehistoric monuments.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-majorca.html (505 words)

	James I King of Majorca: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		James, titular king of Majorca, was his chief sponsor and this, together with the possible presence of Peter the Cruel and the fact of Richards...
		JAMES I, king of Majorca 1243 1311, king of Majorca (1276 1311), count of Roussillon and Cerdagne, lord of Montpellier, son of James I of Aragon.
		JAMES II, king of Majorca 1315 49, king of Majorca (1324 49), count of Roussillon and Cerdagne, lord of Montpellier; grandson of James I, nephew and successor of Sancho IV.
	questia.com /library/encyclopedia/james-i-king-of-majorca.jsp?l=J&p=1 (1271 words)

	The Ancient Kingdom of Majorca - Search and Go
		The kingdom of Majorca existed from 1276 to 1349, and included the Balearic Islands (Majorca, Minorca, Formentera and Ibiza), the counties of Rousillon and Cerdagne (present-day Northern Catalonia); and the territories James retained in Occitania (the lordship of Montpellier, the viscounty of Carlades and the barony of Aumelas).
		In 1344, James III was dispossessed of the kingdom by Peter IV of Aragon, his cousin and overlord, and was killed attempting to recover it in 1349, after which the title of King of Majorca became nominal.
		This conclusion which had received the assent of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies was reached on the recognition that Don Mario alone had the royal blood of Aragon in his veins from two sources, through the separate descents of both his mother and his father from King James the Conqueror.
	www.searchandgo.com /articles/reference/kingdom-majorca.php (1371 words)

	James II, king of Majorca. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		1315–49, king of Majorca (1324–49), count of Roussillon and Cerdagne, lord of Montpellier; grandson of James I, nephew and successor of Sancho IV.
		Accusing James of illegal acts, Peter IV of Aragón invaded and conquered Majorca (1343) and Roussillon (1344) and annexed them to Aragón.
		James tried to recover his kingdom, but was defeated and killed in battle on Majorca.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ja/James2Maj.html (137 words)

	James I
		James I, the Conqueror, King of Aragon, son of Peter II, king of Aragon, and of Mary of Montpellier, whose mother was Eudoxia Comnena, daughter of the emperor Manuel I Comnenus, was born at Montpellier on the 2nd of February 1208.
		James was now entrusted to the care of Guillen de Monredon, the head of the Templars in Spain and Provence.
		King James was the author of a chronicle of his own life, written or dictated apparently at different times, which is a very fine example of autobiographical literature.
	www.nndb.com /people/777/000101474 (838 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the last of al-Andalus was conquered and the Spanish conquest of the Americas began.
		In contrast, the Majorcan territory together with that of the counts of Cerdanya and Roussillon and the city of Montpellier were left as a kingdom for his son James II of Majorca as the Kingdom of Majorca.
		Ferdinand II of Aragon ("Ferdinand the Catholic") finally resolved the major grievances of the remences with the Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe in 1486, profoundly reformed Catalan institutions, recovered without war the northern Catalan counties, and increased active involvement in Italy.
	www.catalunyacafe.eu (5135 words)

	CALIFORNIA STATE NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION Home Page
		James II was at war with his older brother, Peter III of Aragon, over the inheritance of Majorca for many years.
		Majorcan Coinage---1276 to 1334 Coinage used in Majorca under the Moors was of Islamic types, primarily the gold dinar and the silver dirhem issues of the caliphs in Spain and the Middle East.
		Majorca was unusual in its consistent use of the cross on all coinage during its days as a crusader state, as were contemporary crusader states in the Levant.
	www.coinmall.com /CSNA/art004.htm (2040 words)

	List of Aragonese monarchs
		The Aragonese kings of the Barcelonan dinasty ruled as well Catalonia (which included Roussillon, nowadays a Department of France), the city of Montpellier, the kingdom of Valencia, the kingdom of Majorca, the kingdom of Sicily, and Sardinia.
		The title of Count of Barcelona belonged to the Aragonese monarch after Alfonso II inherited it from his father Ramon Berenguer IV[?].
		1213 1276 James I, conquered Valencia, Majorca and Ibiza.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ki/Kings_of_Aragon.html (199 words)

	HISTORY OF THE FLAG IN THE CATALAN COUNTRIES
		To the second son, James II, corresponded the Kingdom of Majorca, the counties of Cerdanya and Roselló and the fief of Montpellier.
		Since James II possessed the kingdom as fief of Peter II, the flag used was the same in both kingdoms.
		His brother James of Sicily was proclaimed king of the Catalan c ounties, Valencia and Aragon (James II) and in 1295 renounced Sicily receiving in exchange Corsica and Sardinia, whose conquest to the Genoeses was long, ending the conquest of the second in 1325, little before his death (1327).
	www.angelfire.com /realm/jolle/catalonia/cat_4a.htm (404 words)

	Chapter 4: The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror
		King James, upon accession to the throne of Aragon, had one major ambition: reconquest of the land occupied by the Muslims on the periphery of the lands he already held.
		(James I on his deathbed donned the older habit of the Cistercians.) Not all preachers were equally popular with their superiors, as can be seen from the story of Fra Jaume Moxó, a Franciscan who lived in the early part of the fourteenth century.
		James may have been blessed by providence; his reign was indeed favored bv the recent creation of the Dominican and Franciscan orders, which he was astute enough to enlist in his cause.
	libro.uca.edu /worlds/chapter4.htm (9509 words)

	HISTORY OF THE FLAG IN THE CATALAN COUNTRIES
		The conquest of Majorca began in 1228 and perhaps it altered the three bars or pales since from a study of the seals it could be deduced that they were four pales (golden) since this era.
		James I carried it to the island in the last days of 1229, when the City of Majorca was on the verge of being conquered (it wa s occupied on 31 december 1229).
		But in Majorca the most used standard is white with the red cross of the military arm of Barcelona, and of the Knights of Sant Jordi of Alfama, who with the aid of the Jews of the island, assumed the administration and pacification
	www.angelfire.com /realm/jolle/catalonia/cat_2a.htm (749 words)

	Ramon Llull (1232-1316) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ramon Llull was born on the island of Majorca, probably in 1232.
		He was eventually appointed seneschal to the young James II of Majorca, who received the island from his father in 1253.
		At the court of James II of Aragon, Llull received permission to proselytize the Moors within James's realm, and dedicated more works to him and his wife, Blanche of Anjou, before returning to Majorca.
	www-mat.upc.es /grup_de_grafs/logo/llull_bio.htm (1980 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Aragn house of - AOL Research & Learn
		Ramiro II (1134–37) was succeeded by his daughter, Petronilla, and her husband, Raymond Berengar IV, count of Barcelona.
		In the same period (1229–38), however, James I won the Balearic Islands and the region of Valencia from the Moors.
		The kingdom of Majorca, with Roussillon and Cerdagne, was separate from 1276 to 1343; that of Sicily, from 1296 to 1409; and that of Naples, from 1458 to 1501.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/aragn-house-of/20051205162509990036 (327 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Two.
		of France, being conquered at Poitiers, was brought captive to England by the Black Prince; Juan II.
		de Medicis was forced to abdicate, and died of shipwreck; James II.
		of Scotland was shot by a cannon at the siege of Roxburgh; James II.
	www.bartleby.com /81/16884.html (352 words)

	Ramon Llull Summary
		Raymond Lull was born at Palma in Majorca.
		Ramon Lull was born in Spain in 1232, the son of a nobleman.
		Llull was well educated, and became the tutor of James II of Aragon.
	www.bookrags.com /Ramon_Llull (3591 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Compostela
		Soon they petitioned King Ordono II and Pope Nicholas I to permit them to transfer the see from Iria to Compostela, near the sepulchre and church of St. James.
		At the end of the eleventh century, through reverence for the body and the sepulchre of St James, Urban II withdrew from Iria its episcopal rank and transferred the see in its entirety to Compostela.
		Pope Callistus II recognized the great merits of Diego Gelmírez, Bishop of Compostela, and in view of the reconquest of much Portuguese territory, and the near recovery of its freedom by Merida, the ancient metropolis of Lusitania (Portugal), confided to him the perpetual administration of that archdiocese, whereby Compostela became a metropolitan see.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04187b.htm (1109 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg50 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		John II of Richmond DE DREUX Duke [Parents] was born 4 Jan 1238.
		John II of Richmond DE DREUX Duke on 22 Jan 1260 in Abbey of St Denis, Paris.
		Arthur II of Brittany DE DREUX was born 1262 and died 1312.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg50.htm (673 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Balearic Isles
		About 1230 James I (Jaime) of Aragon gained possession of the island and conferred the sovereignty on his third son, who transmitted it to his descendants; from 1276 to 1343 they formed the independent kingdom of Majorca, a secundo geniture of Aragon, at the latter date being reunited to the Crown.
		After the expulsion of the Moors a see was re-established on the island of Majorca (1237), in direct dependence on the Holy See, and in 1238 Raymund de Torella was made first bishop.
		The Diocese of Majorca, exclusive of Iviza, embraces the islands of Majorca, Cabrera, and Colubraria; in 1906 it contained a population of 262,000, divided into 8 archipresbyterates, 39 parishes and (at the beginning of 1907) 47 mission churches; 704 priests, including 60 who are not residing in the diocese; 318 churches and oratories.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02221c.htm (673 words)

	MAJORCA, TOURISTIC ISLAND
		Of the Balearic Islands (Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera, Cabrera and a myriad of tiny islets) Majorca is the largest.
		Majorca has a surface area of 3.640 km and a population of almost 700.000, approximately half of which reside in the capital of Palma.
		Constructed at the beginning of the 14th C. by order of King James II of Majorca, its main structure is cylindrical and is flanked by four diametrically opposed towers.
	personal.redestb.es /hotelsandiego/mall_ang.htm (529 words)

	The Theosophy Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Majorca had been a Muslim possession for three centuries when, in 1229, James I of Aragon, just twenty-one years of age, led the Catalan armies in a victorious invasion of the island.
		James I planned to assign Majorca to his son, James II, and appointed Lull as his companion and possibly his tutor, and eventually his seneschal.
		Whilst there, James II became king of Montpellier and Majorca upon the death of his father in 1276.
	www.theosophytrust.org /tlodocs/dispreport.php?d=teachers/RamonLull.htm (3466 words)

	Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 47
		James II of Scotland, King of Scotland Stuart, b.
		James III of Baden-Durlach, Margrave of Baden-Durlach Zähringen, b.
		James III of Scotland, King of Scotland Stuart, b.
	www.hull.ac.uk /php/cssbct/genealogy/royal/gedFx47.html (677 words)

	Recovering the Sanctuaries of the Holy Land
		Aragonese Franciscans, sent by James II of Aragon, serve at the Holy Sepulchre.
		Robert of Anjou and Sanchia of Majorca, rulers of Naples acquire from the Sultan of Egypt, the Cenacle and the surrounding property as well as permission for the Friars to live at the site and the right of residence and service at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
		Sanci of Majorca, Queen of Naples and Robert of Anjou build for the Franciscans the convent at the Cenacle.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/ofm/pope/10GPen/16/16GPcu11.html (606 words)

	AllRefer.com - James I, king of Majorca (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		James I, king of Majorca, Spanish And Portuguese History, Biographies
		James I 1243–1311, king of Majorca (1276–1311), count of Roussillon and Cerdagne, lord of Montpellier, son of James I of AragOn.
		Having supported the French crusade against Peter, he was expelled (1285) from his territories by Peter's son, Alfonso III, but was restored 10 years later as the vassal of James II of AragOn.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/James1Maj.html (225 words)

	Raymund Lull, First Missionary to the Moslems [Chapter 2]
		RAYMUND LULL was born of an illustrious family at Palma in the island of Majorca of the Balearic group in 1235.
		Majorca has an area of fourteen hundred and thirty square miles, a delightful climate, beautiful scenery, and a splendid harbor - Palma.
		According to one authority, "the genius and maxims of the court were purely republican." The kings were elective, while the real exercise of power was In the hands of the Cortes, an assembly consisting of the nobility, the equestrian order, the representatives of cities, and the clergy.
	www.bible.ca /islam/library/Zwemer/Lull/chap2.htm (1856 words)

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