Peter of Portugal (1187–1258)

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Peter of Portugal

Peter of Portugal ( Portuguese Pedro de Portugal ; * February 23, 1187 ; † June 2, 1258 ) was a Portuguese infant, iure uxoris a Count of Urgell and Lord of Mallorca from the House of Burgundy . He was a younger son of King Sancho I of Portugal and the Dulce of Barcelona .

After he was forced to exile from Portugal due to a conflict within the family , Peter had the support of Alfonso IX. of León in 1212 waged a war against his brother Alfonso II . After that he had initially hired himself as a mercenary leader in the service of the Almohads in North Africa, until he was able to return to Portugal after the death of Alfonso II. In 1227 he supported his nephew Sancho II in the conquest of Mérida .

Finally, Peter was to Aragón to the court of his cousin, King I. Jacob pulled. There he married the royal concubine Aurembiaix in 1229 , through whom he came into the possession of the large county of Urgell. After Aurembiaix had already died in 1231, King James I had raised a claim to Urgell, which Peter willingly gave him on September 29, 1231 and in return for the "Lord of the Kingdom of Mallorca" (Petrus, infans portugalense, Dei gratia regni Maioricarum dominus) was appointed. Together with the Archbishop of Tarragona and Nuno Sanchez of Roussillon , he conquered Ibiza and Formentera in 1235 . In 1244 he exchanged his rule over Mallorca for several estates in the Kingdom of Valencia and participated in the battles against the last Moorish rebels in this kingdom. Ten years later, Peter had sold his goods in Valencia to the Crown of Aragón and was again given goods in Mallorca.

literature

  • David Abulafia: A Mediterranean emporium: The Catalan kingdom of Majorca. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Antonio Ortega Villoslada: El reino de Mallorca y el mundo atlántico (1230-1349): Evolución Político-Mercantil. Netbiblo, 2008.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the exchange contract see: Provas da Historia Genealogica da Casa Real Portugueza , ed. by AC Sousa (1739), Vol. 1, No. 12, p. 25.
  2. ↑ Documentos de Jaime I de Aragón , Vol. 2, ed. by Ambrosio Huici Miranda and Maria Descamparados Cabanes Pecourt (1976), no.394.

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predecessor Office successor
Aurembiaix Count of Urgell
(as husband of Aurembiaix)
1229–1231 		Crown of Aragon
personal data
SURNAME Peter of Portugal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pedro de Portugal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Urgell, Lord of the Kingdom of Mallorca
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1187
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1258