The Story of Majorca and Minorca. Sir Clements R. Markham

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       Sir Clements R. Markham

      The Story of Majorca and Minorca

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664574138

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       CHAPTER I Of King Jayme I. of Aragon and how he resolved to conquer Majorca and drive out the Moors

       CHAPTER II Tells how King Jayme won a victory over the Moors of Majorca; and gives some account of the Moorish capital

       CHAPTER III Tells how En Jayme besieged and took the capital, conquered the whole island, and became the first Christian King of Majorca

       CHAPTER IV King Jayme’s last visits—Settlement of the island—Acts and death of Jayme I., first King of Majorca

       CHAPTER V Tells how the King of Aragon took up Conradin’s glove; how the Pope’s curses went home to roost; and how En Pedro kept his tryst

       CHAPTER VI Tells how the Queen of Aragon went to Sicily with her sons, how Admiral Lauria won new victories, and how more of the Pope’s curses went home to roost

       CHAPTER VII Tells how young Federigo held Sicily against all odds, how the Catalan Company went to the east, and how Jayme of Majorca was restored to his island home

       CHAPTER VIII Tells how King Jayme II. at last reigned in peace, and how his page Raimondo Lulio attained the crown of martyrdom

       CHAPTER IX The career of Prince Fernando of Majorca; and tells how the orphan was taken home to its grandmother

       CHAPTER X King Sancho of Majorca

       CHAPTER XI King Jayme III. of Majorca

       CHAPTER XII Relates the adventures of Jayme and Isabel, describes the memorial chair, and records the end of the Majorcan dynasty

       CHAPTER XIII Relates the story, so far as it concerns Majorca, of the last Kings of Aragon

       CHAPTER XIV The Majorcans as navigators

       CHAPTER XV The Comunidades

       CHAPTER XVI The Majorcan historians—War of succession—Families ennobled—Cotoners—Raxa and Cardinal Despuig—Country houses

       CHAPTER XVII The Marquis of Romana and the patriot Jovellanos.

       CHAPTER XVIII Conclusion

       CHAPTER I Minorca—Its prehistoric remains—Mago the Carthaginian—Successive occupations

       CHAPTER II Conquest of Minorca by Alfonso III.—The Barbary pirates

       CHAPTER III British occupation of Minorca.

       CHAPTER IV Minorca as a base

       CHAPTER V Minorca under British rule

       CHAPTER VI Minorca twice lost

       CHAPTER VII The third occupation of Minorca—Loss of British rule

       INDEX

       SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF THE RE-ISSUE.

       THE WORKS OF Elizabeth Barrett Browning and of Robert Browning.

       WORKS BY ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON.

       THE WATERLOO LIBRARY. THIS SERIES COMPRISES SOME OF THE BEST WORKS OF MODERN AUTHORS. THE VOLUMES ARE WELL PRINTED AND ISSUED IN A NEAT CLOTH BINDING OF SPECIAL DESIGN.

       NEW VOLUME. ADAM GRIGSON. By Mrs. HENRY DE LA PASTURE. DAILY TELEGRAPH. —‘Quite a notable achievement in many ways, there being at least three pictures of women contained in it which could not be improved upon.’

       VOLUMES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED.

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      The story of the Islands of Majorca and Minorca has never been told in our language in a condensed form, although the interest is great from an historical point of view, and the materials sufficient, though not perhaps abundant. It is so closely connected with the history of Aragon and the recovery of the Sicilies from the intruding Angevins that the two cannot be altogether separated. The most that can be done is, as far as practicable, to treat the Aragonese and Sicilian events from a Majorcan point of view. This has been attempted. The stirring events of the conquest of Majorca by Jayme I., the latter part of the reign of his son, and the reigns of Sancho and Jayme III., as well as the adventures and death of Jayme IV., the last of his race, all belong strictly to Majorcan history, as do the chapters on Balearic navigators and the revolt of the ‘Comunidades.’ The story fills a gap in the history of Mediterranean countries which may not be altogether unacceptable to students. This has been one object of the writer.

      Another object has been to supply more detailed information respecting the events of former times in the islands, for the use of the considerable