Ramon Muntaner Explained

Ramon Muntaner
Birth Date:1265
Birth Place:Peralada, Catalonia
Death Date:1336
Death Place:Ibiza, Crown of Aragon
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Ramon Muntaner (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /rəˈmom muntəˈne/) (1265  - 1336) was a Catalan mercenary and writer who wrote the Crònica, a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company. He was born at Peralada.

Biography

The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under the leadership of Roger de Flor that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as Almogavars; Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks.

For a lapse of time (1308-1315) he was governor of Djerba after its conquest by the Crown of Aragon.[1]

Ramon Muntaner's Crònica is one of the four Catalan Grand Chronicles through which the historian views thirteenth- and fourteenth century military and political matters in the Crown of Aragon and the Principality of Catalonia.[2]

He died at Ibiza in 1336.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: E. Michael Gerli. Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. 4 December 2013. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-136-77161-3. 593–.
  2. The other three sources are the autobiography of James I of Aragon, the chronicles of Bernard Desclot and the royal chronicle of Peter IV of Aragon.