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The Querimonia (Occitan: Querimònia) is a legal document written in Latin that details the political and administrative autonomy granted to the Aran Valley (Catalonia, Spain) by James II of Aragon in 1313.[1] The valley maintained a special status until 1834 when the queen regent María Cristina forced the integration of the valley with the province of Lleida. In 1990, the Aranese once again achieved a measure of autonomy when the autonomous community of Catalonia devolved power to the local government, giving them control over education, sanitation, culture, environment, agriculture and tourism.[2]

Rights

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The querimonia confirmed and ceded the following rights to the Aranese:

  • Free and explicit common ownership by the Aranese of their mountains without tribute or subsidy; with the freedom of pasture for all meadows and fields
  • Free use of the forests
  • Free use of water, for irrigation as well as mills
  • The freedom to fish and hunt
  • Exemption from all royal servitude, burden, and imposition
  • Recognition of the traditional Aranese convinença[nb 1] and the torneria.[nb 2]

In return, the Aranese agreed to pay a tribute once per year to the king called the Galin Reiau, consisting of a quantity of wheat per resident of the valley.[5][6]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ A set of rules for communal property ownership and how expenses and gains were shared and passed on in the event of death of one or both parties. In the absence of an explicit agreement, the convinença became the default disposition. [3]
  2. ^ A rule requiring that the seller of a property must first offer to sell to their siblings and close relatives, if relatives chose not to buy then the seller could sell to anyone. If the property was not first offered to relatives, they had the right to challenge the sale.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Turell, M. Teresa, ed. (2001). Multilingualism in Spain : sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of linguistic minority groups ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Clevedon [u.a.]: Multilingual Matters. p. 142. ISBN 9781853594915. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Val d'Aran celebra los 700 años de su 'carta magna', la 'Querimònia'". lavanguardia.com (in Spanish). La Vanguardia Ediciones. 17 June 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. ^ GEC, convinença.
  4. ^ GEC, torneria.
  5. ^ GEC, la Querimònia.
  6. ^ "Què és la Querimònia?". ccma.cat (in Catalan). Mitjans Audovisuals S.A. 17 June 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2015.

Sources

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Terçon

the Aran Valley, in Catalonia. It was in use from the granting of the Querimonia, in 1313, until its abolition in 1833 with the Spanish provincial division

Val d'Aran

legal details of which are described in a Latin manuscript called the Querimonia. The devolution of power was a reward for the Aranese pledging allegiance

Nueva Planta decrees

affect the political-administrative regime of the Aran Valley due to the Querimonia, which is why it was not incorporated into the new corregedorias into

James II of Aragon

legal details of which are described in a Latin manuscript called the Querimonia. The devolution of power was a reward for the Aranese pledging allegiance

Castle of La Suda

Catalans and the Aragonese and crowned King of Aragon. The signing of the Querimonia, by which James II of Aragon granted autonomy to the Aran Valley in 1313

Hildebert of Lavardin

wrote are the lives of Hugh of Cluny and of St Radegunda. His liber de Querimonia et Conflictu carnis et Spiritus seu animae is also undoubtedly his. Hildebert

Cupio dissolvi

deriving from Seneca, for instance), a misreading offered in Hildebert's Querimonia. Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) and contemporary theologians read the

List of manuscripts in the Cotton library

Gower, Verses in praise of King Henry IV of England; and John Somerset, Querimonia de ingratitudine universitatis Cantebrigie F.viii Nicholas Charles, Visitation