Treaty of Corbeil (1258)

With the Treaty of Corbeil from May 11, 1258, a dispute between France and the Kingdom of Aragon was terminated and North Catalonia and Barcelona awarded the Pyrenean country.

The King of France Louis IX. renounced the practically worthless for him suzerainty over the county of Roussillon and Barcelona and reached that James I of Aragon, his rights of succession to the counties of Toulouse and Provence (but not the rule Montpellier) gave up.

Until 1246, James I had tried in cooperation with Emperor Frederick II and Henry III. of England to save the existence of the Count House of Toulouse and reduce the expansion of the French crown to the south.

The ultimate goal of James I sat up in Sicily and the North African coast (promotion of maritime trade through the creation of the first law of the sea in Europe and the world: the Llibre del Consulate of the Sea ), but collided with similar plans of his son Alfonso X of Castile. Since both could stir up the nobility of the other as needed, they held each other in check.

The contract also saw the marriage of the daughter of James I, the Aragonese princess Isabella of Aragon, with Ludwig, (* September 21, 1243, † before January 13, 1260 ), the heir to the throne of Louis IX. before.

  • Contract ( French history )
  • History of France in the Middle Ages
  • Catalan history
  • Northern Catalonia
  • Corbeil -Essonnes
  • 1258
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