The Story of Majorca and Minorca
CHAPTER VII
The third occupation of Minorca--Loss of British rule
When the War of the French Revolution broke out England had no base within the Mediterranean. The necessity for such a base was very much increased when Napoleon got possession of Malta. Lord St. Vincent had taken the command of the Mediterranean station in December 1795; on February 14, 1797, he fought the great battle which gave him his title, and afterwards kept up the blockade of Cadiz. He knew that Napoleon was meditating the Egyptian expedition, and detached Nelson with thirteen sail of the line to watch and, if possible, to intercept the enemy. At the same time he sent home an urgent appeal for reinforcements, and Sir Roger Curtis was sent to him with eight sail of the line.
Lord St. Vincent came to the conclusion that the possession of a base within the Mediterranean for the English fleet was of such importance that it was necessary to occupy Minorca once more. He was not a man to let the grass grow under his feet. He had no sooner come to this conclusion than he proceeded to act upon it. He organised a squadron of six ships, to be led by Commodore Duckworth:
_Leviathan_ (74), Commodore Duckworth. _Centaur_ (74), Captain John Markham. _Argo_ (44), Captain J. Bowen. _Aurora_ (28), Captain Caulfield. _Cormorant_ (20), Captain Lord Mark Kerr. _Peterel_ (16), Captain Charles Long.
The squadron convoyed several transports with troops under the command of General the Hon. Charles Stuart, a younger son of the Earl of Bute, the Prime Minister. After a tedious passage, owing to contrary winds, the squadron brought to within five miles of the port of Fornelle, on the north coast of Minorca, on November 7, 1798. Fornelle is a very large and spacious harbour, but it contains many shoals and much foul ground. On the west side of the entrance there is an old fort, consisting of four bastions connected by curtains. On the other side there is an _atalaya_ or signal station. After a reconnaissance, it was decided that Fornelle was not a desirable place for landing the troops. It was decided to send the smaller ships and transports to Addaya Creek, while the two line-of-battle ships stood off and on outside.
Addaya forms a large harbour on the north-east coast of the island, with a valley surrounded by lofty bare hills, which shelter it from the bleak north-westerly winds. The valley produces every kind of vegetable in abundance, while the vineyards and fruit gardens yield grapes, oranges, and pomegranates in profusion. One of the very few springs in the island sends down a stream, whence irrigating channels were conducted to every part of the valley. This is one of the most delightful spots in Minorca; but the harbour is full of rocks, and is only safe for small vessels.
Here General Stuart landed his troops and immediately occupied the surrounding heights, the Spaniards retreating to Ciudadela and Port Mahon. There was no fighting, and the whole island surrendered to General Stuart, including the castle of San Felipe, on November 15.
The Commodore, hearing a report of strange sail being in sight, proceeded to Ciudadela with the _Leviathan_ and _Centaur_, and at daybreak on the 13th five sail were reported from the _Centaur’s_ masthead. An exciting chase was at once commenced. The strangers were large Spanish frigates, and they hauled their winds for Majorca. The _Leviathan_ returned to Ciudadela that evening. Captain Markham of the _Centaur_ set every stitch of canvas and continued the chase until the 14th, but he was completely outsailed by the Spaniards. He returned to Port Mahon on the day of the surrender, writing home that ‘the whole island is now in our possession, without loss of any kind.’ He received 884_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ as his share of the capture of Minorca.
The possession of Port Mahon, in a war with France and Spain combined, provided a base for the fleet whence the Spanish coast could be harassed and the approaches to Toulon watched and hindered.
The _Centaur_ (Captain Markham) and _Cormorant_ (Captain Lord Mark Kerr) cruised along the coast of Catalonia, doing some damage to the enemy in February 1799. The ports of Cambrils and Salou, memorable as the places of embarkation of En Jayme I. and his successors, received unpleasant visits: the guns on the fort at Cambrils were dismounted, and a large Spanish frigate was driven on shore and became a wreck. The _Centaur_ and _Cormorant_ passed April at Port Mahon, and in May Lord Mark Kerr received orders to take home General Stuart and his staff.
In the end of the year Lord Keith had arrived with eleven ships of the line, as second in command to Lord St. Vincent, and continued the blockade of Cadiz. The Commander-in-Chief, owing to ill-health, was living on shore at Gibraltar. Suddenly the news arrived that Lord Bridport had allowed the French fleet of twenty-five sail of the line, commanded by Admiral Bruix, to give him the slip from Brest. On May 4 the French fleet came in sight of Lord Keith, who formed in line and offered battle. But a gale of wind was blowing, and Bruix bore up for the Mediterranean. Keith came to Gibraltar to report the great event to Lord St. Vincent, and the old veteran at once hoisted his flag on board the _Ville de Paris_ and took command, ill as he was. Taking Lord Keith under his orders, he proceeded with the fleet to Port Mahon, the object being to engage the enemy and prevent him from getting into Toulon.
At midnight on May 21 Lord St. Vincent made sail towards Toulon; but on June 2 he became so ill that he was obliged to return to Port Mahon, and on the 18th he resigned the command to Lord Keith and went home. On July 3 the fleet came in sight of Toulon, the _Centaur_ (Captain Markham) being ahead. Owing to some news he received, Lord Keith then crowded all sail for the Bay of Rosas, in hopes of intercepting the French fleet. But there was disappointment, and once more he shaped a course for Toulon. The _Centaur_ was always the advanced ship, well ahead, the frigate _Bellona_ being five miles astern, and the rest of the fleet out of sight. At 9 A.M. on June 18 five strange sail were reported from the masthead. A very exciting chase immediately began at a distance of about sixty miles from Cape Sicie on the French coast. The strangers proved to be three French frigates and two brigs. After nine hours the _Centaur_ came up with the sternmost frigate, and fired into her. She struck, and Captain Markham made a signal to the _Bellona_ to take possession. Again making all sail, he came up first with the second and then with the third frigate, which both struck, as well as the brigs. The prizes were brought to Port Mahon, and all were taken into the British Navy.
Lord Keith cruised off Toulon for some days and then went to Genoa; but still there were no authentic tidings of the French fleet. Once more he stood towards Minorca, and received a reinforcement of twelve sail of the line under Admiral Collingwood. But on June 24 the French fleet left the Mediterranean, and on July 12 it was at Cadiz. Lord Keith determined to try for news at Gibraltar, arriving on the 14th, only to receive the maddening intelligence that the enemy was just two days ahead of him. Then began a desperate chase; for if the French fleet could be forced to give battle, it would be the most momentous event in the war. On the 30th Lord Keith left Gibraltar with thirty-one sail of the line. He was just too late. The _Centaur_ looked into Brest and saw forty sail of the line safely anchored there, being the French fleet under Admiral Bruix and the Spanish fleet under Admiral Mazaredo. They had got in only six hours before, and Keith was gaining on them fast. Lord Keith, stung with anguish at the disappointment, sadly returned to Port Mahon.
Minorca continued to be a very important base for the operations of the British fleet, whence Lord Keith obtained his memorable successes on the coast of Egypt. But when the Peace of Amiens was signed on March 26, 1802, Minorca was ceded to Spain. The long connection of the little island with England was thus severed for ever, and to the Minorcans was only left a tradition and a memory of happier and more prosperous times.
Such prosperity as Minorca has since enjoyed has been due to her excellent harbour, the fame of which as a safe place of refuge gave rise to Andrea Doria’s well-known proverb:
Los puertos del Mediterraneo son. Junio, Julio, Agosto y Puerto Mahon.
So long as sailing ships were the means of locomotion at sea, crowds of merchant vessels frequented the port. It was also visited by the British fleet in the Mediterranean, which always received a cordial welcome in memory of the good old times. The Spanish Government undertook stupendous works of fortification at Cape Mola, on the eastern side of the entrance of Port Mahon. The introduction of steam reduced the importance of the harbour, which became less and less frequented. The garrison was withdrawn and the works at Cape Mola were abandoned, all sources of wealth to the islanders. Minorca has indeed fallen from its high estate. There is stagnation and poverty. A former Consul,[37] in lamenting this decadence, truly said that ‘those who do visit Minorca will find a bright little town and friendly inhabitants, some of whom yet express in broken English their love for England, while they speak joyously and feelingly of the good and flourishing times when Minorca was under British rule.’
INDEX
Abdalla, son of Musa, conquered the Balearic Isles, 10
Abu Yahye, Amír of Majorca, 11
Acart de Mur, master of the camp in the Minorca conquest, 231
Aci Reale, 66
Adaia valley in Minorca, 265, 284
Adrianople, 105
Agnani, Treaty of, 98
Alagon, Blasco de, Federigo’s general, 99, 103
Alaro, 34
Alayor in Minorca, 240, 263
Albareda, Señor, Grand Hotel, Palma, and hotel at Porto Pi, 218
Alberoni, Cardinal, his violence, 255
Albufera in Minorca, 265
Alcudia, 8; Charles V. landed at, 176; Majorcan nobles escape to, 182; Pedro Paz in command at, 183; siege, 183, 184; relieved, 185, 186; honoured, 189
Aldonza, queen of Portugal, 40
Alemany, Geronimo, historian of Majorca, 191, 198
Alençon, Count of, slain, 63
Aleppo pines, 9, 213, 220
Alfavia, country seat of Benahabet, 28, 41; inherited by the Santa Cilia family, 156; passed to the Bergas and Zafortezas, 156; position and description, 156, 157; the memorial chair at, 157
Alfonso I., El Batallador, took Zaragoza, 2
Alfonso II., 40
Alfonso III., 77; occupation of Majorca, 93, 94; accession, 96; to marry daughter of Edward I. of England, death, 97, 235; invaded Minorca, 230, 231, 232; victory over Moors, 233, 234; ordered Port Mahon to be built 235
Alfonso IV., 142
Alfonso V., conquered Naples, 163; duel before, at Naples, 164, 166
Alfonso of Naples, grandson of Alfonso V., 167
Alfonso, Duke of Gandia, 163
Alfonso X. of Castille: married Violante of Aragon, 49; Murcia conquered for, by Jayme I., 49; Fernando, his eldest son, 93
Algiers, expedition of Charles V., 176, 237, 239
Ali al Muhtadi, 10
Almanza, battle of, 244
Almeria, siege of, 124
Almogavares, light infantry, account of, 61, 62, 91, 93, 99, 128, 231, 233
Almojarife, title of the Moorish chief of Minorca, 228, 231 (_n_); sent to Barbary for help, 231; defeated, 233; surrender, 234, 236
Almonds in Majorca, 9; extent of cultivation, 213
Almudaina of Palma, 22; Jayme I. at, 32; restored as a palace, 111; Jayme IV. born at, 144
Alonsiada, written by Ramis, 235
Ampudia, Count of, 97
Ampurdan, 132, 154
Ampurias, Ponce Hugo, Count of, 12; advanced with his men, 18; conducted mining operations at the siege of Palma, 30; death, 33; one of the great feudatory families of Majorca, 45, 103, 195
Andraix attacked by the Moors, 177
Andrew, King of Hungary, 8
Andria, Count of, married to an heiress of the Morea, 129; Isabel of, 130
Andronicus, Emperor of the East, welcomed the Catalan Company, 104
Angelats, Miguel, defended Soller against the pirates, 178
Anglesola, serving in the Minorca conquest, 231
Anjou. _See_ Charles of.
Anson, Lord, 277
_Antelope_, H.M.S., 276
Antequera. _See_ Fernando of.
Apricots in Majorca, 9, 109, 213
Apulia, 63, 64
Aracuri, Garcia Garces de, 231
Aragon, ancestry of nobles, 2; kingdom, first king, 2; marriage of the heiress, 2; arms of, 3; constitution, titles, 4, 47; ancient families 4 (_n_); division by Jayme I., 50; interdict, 52, 65; kings compared with Plantagenets, 5; question of succession, 162, 163. _See_ Alfonso, Jayme, Juan, Martin Fernando, Pedro, Fueros.
Archduke Luis Salvator at Miramar, 215; his work on the Balearic Isles, 215
_Argo_, H.M.S., 283
Ariañy. _See_ Cotoner.
Armstrong, J., ‘History of Minorca,’ 270
Arquimbau, Governor of Ciudadela when besieged by the Turks, 240
Arta, cave of, attacked, 36
Ash-shakandi, Moorish chronicler, 9
Asturias, 1; Romana in, 206; Jovellanos born in, 209, 210, 211
_Asturias, Principe de_, flagship of Chacon off Cape Passaro, 257
Atalayas, or look-out towers, 137, 223
Ataranza at Palma, 22
Athens, Duke of, 123; dukedom, 128
Augusta, 79, 101
_Aurora_, H.M.S., 283
Aversa, Castle of, 123
Avignon, 137, 143, 153
Ayamans. _See_ Togores.
Ayerba, Blasco Jimenes de, arranged for the deportation of Moors of Minorca, 234
Aygua Freda, 38
Badajos, 297
Balearic Isles overrun by the Moors, 10; Archduke Luis Salvator’s monograph, 215; Bidwell’s work on, 217, 289 (_n_); Phœnicians and Carthaginians, 225; Roman occupation, 229; Bishop of, at a Council of Toledo, 228. _See_ Majorca, Minorca.
Barbarossa, pirate, 176, 188, 237
Barbary, Pedro III. on coast of, 60; pirates, precautions against, 137, 163; incursions in Majorca, 177, 179; help to Moors in Minorca, 231, 232, 234; attacks on Minorca, 237
Barcelo y Combis, work on Balearic flora, 214, 271 (_n_)
Barcelona, conquered by Louis, son of Charlemagne, 2; marriage of Count with heiress of Aragon, 2; attack by the Moors, 11; Counts of, their coat of arms, 3; laws, 4; palace of Counts, 12; dockyard, 59; Queen Constance sailed from, 77, 78; Charles of Anjou in prison at, 81, 96; Jayme II. landed at, 77; sons of King of Majorca in prison at, 136, 147; rescue of Majorcan princes, 147; Jayme IV. in prison at, 151; measures against Barbary pirates, 163; death of the Prince of Viana at, 168; sailors of, 170, 171; fall of, 192; for the Archduke Charles, 243
Barcelona, Bishop of: the Moorish chief placed the Balearic Isles under his jurisdiction, 10; joins in the invasion of Majorca, 12; Mass before the battle, 17; announced heavy losses, 19; with Jayme I. at the caves, 35; one of the great Minorca feudatories, 45
Barrancas in Minorca, 265, 267
Basque provinces, 1
Bearne, Viscount de. _See_ Moncada.
_Bellona_, H.M.S., 287
Bellpuig. _See_ Dameto.
Belver Castle, 113, 115; Jayme II. imprisoned at, 151; Juan I. at, 160; besieged and taken by Comuneros, 82; Order of Juan II., 168; Jovellanos imprisoned in, 210, 211; work of Jovellanos on, 210; declared a Patrimonio Real, 211, 212
Benahabet, Moorish chief of Majorca, went over to King Jayme I., 28, 34, 41; his heiress married Santa Cilia, 142; arms of Leonor Ben-nassar his daughter, 157. _See_ Alfavia
Bendinat, 20; castle, 21, 208
Beni Umiyyah dynasty, 10, 228
Berga, 147
Berga, noble family of Majorca, 108; inherited Alfavia, 156; arms, 157
Bertie, Lord Robert, 173
Berwick, Duke of, 244
Bidwell’s ‘Balearic Islands,’ 217, 289 (_n_)
Bilithon. _See_ Prehistoric Remains.
Binisalem, 109
Blakeney, General, gallant defence of Minorca, 273, 274; surrender, 275; evidence on Byng’s court martial, 277
Blanche of Anjou to marry Jayme II. of Aragon, 98
Bofarull, Antonio de, edition of Muntaner, 55 (_n_)
Bona sent help to the Minorca Moors, 231
Bonet, Nicolas, his ship to lead the fleet of Jayme I., 13
Boniface VIII., Pope, gained over King Jayme II. of Aragon, 98; negotiated the treaty of Agnani, 98; ceded Corsica and Sardinia to Aragon, 98, 103
Bordeaux, 64, 67, 71, 72, 73, 97
Bosch, family of, 165
Bosch y Cerda, Don Bartolomé, British consul, 215
Botany of Majorca, 214; Minorca, 270 (_n_)
Bover, his account of the coinage of Majorca, 110; edited the Majorca historians, 191; his ‘Nobiliario,’ 193 (_n_)
Bowen, Captain, H.M.S. _Argo_, 283
_Breda_, H.M.S., in battle of Cape Passaro, 257
Brienne, Comte de, Duke of Athens, slain, 128
Broderick, Commodore, arrived at Gibraltar, 276
_Buckingham_, H.M.S., 274
Buesca, first capital of Aragon, 2
Bugia, Lulio martyred at, 231
Burgos, 153
Burgues, noble family of Majorca, 108; arms, 157; title given, 193
Burgundy, Duke of, founded a principality in the Morea, 128, 129
Butler, Captain H.M.S. _Dunkirk_, sent to capture Fornells, 248
Byng, Admiral Sir George, sent to the Mediterranean to hinder Spanish designs on Sicily, 254; at Port Mahon and Naples, 255; chased the Spanish fleet, 256; victory off Cape Passaro, 257; visited Count Mercy, 258, 259; at Genoa, 260; success of all his measures, 262; created Viscount Torrington, 262
Byng, Admiral John, sent to relieve Minorca, 273; with his father off Cape Passaro, 273; at Gibraltar, 273; off Minorca, 274; his fleet, 274; evaded an action, 275; his court martial, 277; executed, 279
Cabrera, Isle, 88
Calabria, 96, 103
Calatabellota, 103
Calatayud, 74
Cambrils, Jayme’s fleet assembled at, 13, 285
Cammock, Irish renegade, Spanish rear-admiral, 256
Camprodon, François, architect of the Almudaina at Palma, 111
Canet, fight for the water-supply, 27, 29; country house of the Torrellas, 27, 28; fayence factory at, 200; noble family of Majorca, viscounts, 108
Cannæ, 225
_Canterbury_, H.M.S., 257
_Captain_, H.M.S., in Sir G. Byng’s action, 257; in Byng’s fleet off Minorca, 274
Carbonell, his story not to be believed, 234, 235
Carcassonne, 6
Carlists imprisoned at Belver, 211
Carlos (_see_ Viana, Prince of; _see_ Charles), 167
Caro, noble family of Majorca, 108, 201. _See_ Romana.
Carob-trees, area covered by, in Majorca, 213
Carroz, Don Francisco, in command of the expedition to restore order in Majorca, 184
Carroz, a German knight, 13
Cartailhac, M., on prehistoric remains in Minorca, 221
Carthaginians in Minorca (_see_ Mago), 225; founded Port Mahon, 227
Cartuja at Valdemosa, 161, 162
Castro Giovanni, 261
Catalan language, 4; King Jayme’s Journal written in, 11; Chronicle of Muntaner, 55; dialect in Majorca, 214
Catalans army, conquest of Majorca by, 26; naval power, 59; victory, 66; crossbowmen, 86, 87; naval victories, 85, 86; Company in the east (_see_ Company); as navigators, 170, 172; Portolani, 172; abandoned by Treaty of Utrecht, 251; grief of the Archduke Charles at their treatment, 252
Catalonia, 1; French invasion, 84
Catania, granted to Prince Fernando, 128, 129; death of Isabel of Andria at, 130
Catona, 63
Caulfield, Captain H.M.S. _Aurora_, 283
Caves, description of the Cueva del Drachs, 35, 36; Cueva de Arta, fugitives in, 37; in Minorca, 221
Cefalu, 79, 81, 100
_Centaur_, H.M.S., Captain Markham, 283; chases Spanish frigates, 285; on coast of Catalonia, 285, 286; capture of French frigates, 287; off Brest, 288
Centelles, Gilabert de, Governor of Majorca for Pedro IV., 148
_Centurion_, H.M.S., off Minorca, 247; sent to Fornells, 248
Cerdaña, 6, 49; Jayme I. succeeded to, 50, 56; King Sancho of Majorca died in, 139; Jayme IV. of Majorca died in, 155
Cette, 85
Ceuta, 234
Chair of Alfavia, memorial to Jayme IV. and Isabel, 157; description, 155, 159
Champans, Bernardo de. _See_ Templars
Charles of Anjou: carried out the Pope’s designs against Sicily, 57; conquered Naples and Sicily, 58; cruelty to Manfred’s family, 58; driven out of Sicily by the King of Aragon, 60, 63; challenged Pedro of Aragon, 64; his appeal to the Pope against Aragon, 65; dispossessed of Malta, 66; came to Bordeaux, 67, 71; discomfited, returned to Toulouse, 74; Sicily delivered from, 76; intriguing at Rome, 79; death, 82
Charles II. of Anjou taken prisoner, 79, 80; forced to liberate King Manfred’s daughter, 80; his life saved by Prince Jayme, in prison at Barcelona, 81, 90; released, 98; treaty with Federigo, 103
Charles II. of Spain, 191; death, 241
Charles III. of Spain, his monument to Jayme II., 118
Charles IV. of Spain, 210, 211
Charles V., expedition to Algiers, 176, 237; landed at Alcudia, 175; at Palma, 176; steps to restore order in Majorca, 184
Charles of Valois, the Pope’s ‘King of Aragon,’ 82; mocked by his elder brother, 83, 84, 90; sent against Sicily, failure, 100
_Chesterfield_, H.M.S., 274
Chopin, 162
Cienfuegos, 206
Ciudadela, 222, 227, 235, 239; besieged by the Turks, 240; defences repaired, 241; under British rule, 263, 266, 284
Clarenza, taken by Prince Fernando of Majorca, 131; Jayme III. of Majorca, Lord of, 141
Cleghorn, Dr., on the botany of Minorca, 270
Coinage of Majorca, 110; of King Sancho, 140
Columbus centenary, copy of Valseca Portolano for, 172
Company of Catalans under Roger de Flor, 103; massacre by Greeks, repulse Greeks at Gallipoli, 105; Prince Fernando arrived to take command, 120, 121; abandon Gallipoli, march on Salonica, 122; take service under the Duke of Athens, 123, 128; kill the Duke of Athens and his nobles, 128
Compasses, early use of, 77, 171
Comuneros of Majorca, 182; atrocities, 183; besiege Alcudia, 183, 184; defence of Pollenza, 185; vengeance on, 188
Comunidades in Spain, 180; in Majorca, 180
Conflent, 49; Jayme II. to succeed to, 50, 55, 56
Conradin, beheaded by Charles of Anjou, appeals to the King of Aragon to avenge his death, 58, 59, 81
Constance, daughter of Manfred of Sicily, wife of Pedro III. of Aragon, 48; rightful Queen of Sicily, 64; went to Sicily with two sons, 76; arrival at Palermo, 78; Sicilian Parliament swore allegiance to, 79; at Messina, meeting with her sister, 81; children, 94
Constance of Aragon married to the Infante Juan Manuel, 49
Constance of Aragon, wife of Jayme III. of Majorca, 142, 143, 149
Constantia sent help to Minorca, 232
Constantinople, 105
_Cormorant_, H.M.S., 284, 285
Cornel, En Pedro, General of the army of Alfonso III. against Minorca, 231
Cornut, E. Pedro, Admiral of the Provençal fleet, 66
Cornwallis, Colonel, 273
Corsica ceded to Aragon by the Pope, 98, 118, 138, 143
Coruña, 205
Cotoner, noble family of Aragon: Marquis of Ariañy, 108; Nicolas, at reception of Charles V., 176; some murdered by Comuneros, 183, 189; title given, 193; Grand Masters of Malta, 194; general, 194, 214
Cotonera at Malta, 194
Crespi, Juan, leader of Comuneros at Palma, 181, 186, 188; death, 188
Creus, Cape of, 86
Cristopol, 122
Crossbowmen. _See_ Catalans.
Cruilles, Gilbert de, envoy of Aragon at Bordeaux, 68; met King Pedro, 71; came with the attested copy of the notary’s statement, 75
Cullera, Catalan dockyard at, 59
_Culloden_, H.M.S., 274
Cyprus, King of: niece married to Prince Fernando, 131, 134
Cyzicus, 104
Dameto, noble family of Majorca, Marquis of Bellpuig, 108; Albertin, served against the Comuneros, 189; Don Juan, historian of Majorca, 190
Daun, Count, Viceroy of Naples, 253
De Crillon, Duke of Mahon, 280
_Defiance_, H.M.S., 274
Denia, 10
Denmark, Spanish troops in, and escape from, 205
_Deptford_, H.M.S., 274
Desbrull. _See_ Sureda.
Desclot, on Jayme I., 7
Dragonera Island, 14
Dragut, Barbary pirate, 176
Duckworth, Commodore, sent to re-take Minorca, 283; list of ships of his squadron, 283
_Dunkirk_, H.M.S., off Minorca, 247; sent to Fornells, 248
Edgcombe, Captain H.M.S. _Louisa_, 273, 274
Edward I. of England: connection with Aragon, 5, 6, 7; refused to join with the Pope against King Manfred of Sicily, 57; umpire between Pedro III. and Charles of Anjou, 64, 67; does not come to Bordeaux owing to French treachery, 67; intervention to restore peace, 96, 97; his daughter Eleanor to marry Alfonso III. of Aragon, 97
Edward the Black Prince joined by Jayme IV. of Majorca, 153
Effingham, Lord, 273
Eleanor, Princess of England, to marry Alfonso III. of Aragon, 97
Enriquez de Guzman, Don Alonso: in command at Palma, 185; his account of the surrender of the Comuneros, 186
Entenzas, supporters of Federigo of Sicily, 100; Gambon de, 103; Berenguer de, a leader of the Catalan Company, 103; disputes with Rocafort, 105; murder, 121, 122; knights of the family in the Minorca conquest, 231
Esclaramunda de Foix, Queen of Majorca, 49; children, 92, 107; received the orphan of her son Fernando at Perpignan, 134; death, 135
Espero, battle of, near Patras, Prince Fernando slain, 132
Esporla, La Granja de, country seat of the Fortuñy family, 199; factories at, 200
Estremadura, Romana in command in, 207
Fabon, Miguel, preacher at the siege of Palma, 26
Fadrique, Count of Luna, 163
Fairborn, Captain H.M.S. _Centurion_, took Fornells, 248
Falcons, King Sancho’s breed, 139
Fatih Billah, Moorish chief: attempt to cut off the water, 26, 27
Federigo of Naples, grandson of Alfonso V., 167
Federigo of Sicily: Catalonia nobles rally round him, 99; defeated the Prince of Tarentum, 100; acknowledged as King of Sicily, 103; helped the Catalan Company, 104; friendship for Fernando of Majorca, 120, 122, 127; sent presents to Fernando’s orphan, 133; supplied Alfonso III. with galleys, 231
Felanitx founded, 109
Felipe, younger son of Charles of Anjou, married the heiress of the Morea, 129
Felipe, youngest son of Jayme II. of Majorca, 92; entered holy orders, 108; regent for Jayme III., 140
Felipe II. of Spain, Journal of Jayme I. translated for, 11
Felipe V. of Spain proclaimed, 192, 193, 242; perfidy, 253; joined Quadruple Alliance, 261
Fereiras in Minorca, 263
Fernando I. (of Antequera), 155, 162, 163
Fernando II. of Aragon, married to Isabella of Castille, 168
Fernando III. of Castille, 7
Fernando IV. of Castille: bad faith, 124, 125
Fernando of Majorca, 49, 92, 107; went to fight in Sicily, 120; joined the Catalan Company, 120; refused to remain except as viceregent of the King of Sicily, 122; embarked and went to Thasos, 123; imprisoned at Naples: released, 124; at the siege of Almeria, 125; feats of arms, 125, 126; joined Federigo of Sicily, 127; married the heiress of the Morea, 129; landed in the Morea, captured Clarenza, 131; slain: Muntaner’s estimate of his character, 132; buried at Perpignan, 132
Fernando, illegitimate son of Prince Fernando of Majorca, 135, 142, 143
Fernando, son of Alfonso V. of Aragon, 165, 166
Fernando, eldest son of Alfonso X. of Castille, 93
Ferrar, Jayme, voyage of, 174
Figuera, Domingo de la: horse dealer, 68; arranged the ride of Pedro III. to Bordeaux, 70; rewarded, 74
Figueras, 146
Flor, Roger de, some account of, 100; becomes a Templar, 101; vice-admiral of Sicily, 102; idea of forming a company to fight the Turks, 103; created Cæsar of the Eastern Emperor, 104; murdered by the Greeks, 105, 120
Flora of Majorca (_see_ Barcelo y Combis); of Minorca, 270 (_n_)
Foggio, death of Charles of Anjou at, 82
Foix, Count of, 49, 91, 92, 153; Gaston de, married heiress of Navarre, 168; Esclaramunda, de, Queen of Majorca, 49, 92, 107, 134, 135
Forbes, Admiral, disapproved of Byng’s execution, 278
Fornells taken by British ships, 248, 269, 283
Forster, Mr., translation of King Jayme’s Journal, 11
Fortuñy, noble family of Majorca, 108, 214; Don Jorge opposed the Moors at Andraix, 177; Matias served against the Comuneros, 189; country seat at La Granja, 199
Fowke, General, Governor of Gibraltar, 273, 276
Franciscan monastery at Palma founded, 113; Lulio buried at, 116
Frederick II., Emperor, 7, 48, 56
French army invading Aragon, 84, 85; flight, 90, 91; fleet, positions, 86; disasters, 86, 87, 89; prepare to attack Minorca, 272, 274
Frere, Mr. Hookham, 202, 207, 209
Fueros of Sobarbe, 3; granted to Majorca, 44; compiled by Jayme I., 52; abolished by Felipe V., 192, 193
Funen, Island of. _See_ Nyborg.
Fuster, a Viceroy of Majorca, 150
Gades, 226
Galicia, Romana’s campaign in, 206, 207
Galissonière, French Admiral, opposed to Byng, 273, 275
Gallipoli, defended by the Catalan Company, 105, 120; arrival of Prince Fernando, 120; abandoned, 122
Gandia, Duke of, claimant to crown of Aragon, 163
Garcia Jimenes, first King of Navarre, 2
Gardiner, flag captain: evidence at Byng’s court martial, 277
Gayangos, Don Pascual, edited the English translation of the Journal of Jayme I., 11
Genoa and Genoese ships, 89, 98, 123, 147, 170, 234
Geographers of Majorca, 174
Geology of Majorca, M. Hermite on, 213
Gerbes Island, Muntaner Governor of, 129
Gerona besieged by the French, 85; siege raised, 90, 91; Cortes at, 107; sons of Kings of Majorca in prison at, 136; Pedro IV. at, 146
Gibraltar, 243, 253, 273, 275, 286, 288
Gijon, Romana embarked at, 206; birthplace of Jovellanos, 209, 211
Gioia of Amalfi, 171
Godoy’s government, 209, 210
Gottenburg, 205
Gozo, 66
_Grafton_, H.M.S., in battle off Cape Passaro, 257
Granada, 124
Grimaldi, Carlos and Ayto of Genoa, fighting for Jayme III. of Majorca, 148
Guadix, 126
Gual, noble family of Majorca, 109; Raimondo, defended Valdemosa, 177; Antonio, served against the Comuneros, 189
Guasp, Felipe, bookseller at Palma, 192, 214 (_n_)
Guillemard, Dr., on prehistoric remains in Minorca, 221, 224
Gurrea. _See_ Urrea.
Hallam, Mr., his account of the constitution of Aragon, 47
Hamilcar Barca, 225
Hannibal, 225
Harrington, Lord, violent scene with Alberoni, 255
Hasdrubal, 226
Hawke, Admiral, superseded Byng, 276
Henriquez, Juanade, Queen of Aragon, 168. _See_ Enriquez.
Henry II. of England, 5
Henry, Prince of Portugal, the Navigator, 174
Hermite, M., on the geology of Majorca, 213
Hernandez y Mercadal: botany of Minorca, 270
Hervey, Captain H.M.S. _Phœnix_, joined Byng off Minorca, 270
Historians of Majorca and Minorca. _See_ Bover, Dameto, Muntaner, Mut, Ramis.
Hospitallers, grants to, 46
Hungary. _See_ Andrew; Violante.
Ibn-al-labneh, Moorish poet, 9
Ilex in Majorca, area covered by, 213
Inca, 28, 34, 185
Infanzones, 4
_Intrepid_, H.M.S., 274
Isabel of Majorca, daughter of Jayme III., 144; in prison, rescued, 147; married, joined her brother, 154; death, 155; memorial. _See_ Chair of Alfavia.
Isabel of Majorca, married to the Infanta Juan Manuel of Castille, 92
Isabella of Andria married to Prince Fernando, 129; death, 130
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France, 49
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, 95
Isabella of Castille, 168
St. Isabel, 8
Ischia, 80
Iviça, 182, 184, 188
Jaca, 68
Jacomo de Mallorca, Director of Prince Henry’s navigation school at Sagres, 174
Jativa, 93
Jayme I., King of Aragon and Majorca: birth, 6; description of his person, 7; anecdote of the swallow, 8; marriage with Violante of Hungary, 8; his Journal, 11; prepared to conquer Majorca, 12; embarked: at sea, 14; landed in Majorca, 15; his first skirmish, 16; heard Mass, 17; put on his armour, 18; grief at the losses: ‘Bendinat,’ 20; began the siege of Palma, 25, 26; entered the town: Amír surrendered, 32; kindness to the Amír’s son, 33; reducing the island, 34-36; departure from Majorca, 37, 38; second visit to Majorca, 40; third visit, 43; on Cape Pera: Minorcans deceived, 44, 45; activity, administration, 47; his conquest of Valencia, 48; his children, 48; conquest of Murcia, 49; death: burial at Poblet, 51; his reign and administration, 51, 52; annual procession, relics, 52, 53; lenient treatment of Moors of Minorca, 228
Jayme II., King of Aragon: went to Sicily with his mother, 77; his naval victory, 79; saved the life of Charles of Anjou, 81; King of Sicily, 94; subdued Calabria, 96; became King of Aragon, 97; change of policy, 98; attacked his brother Federigo, 102; besieged Almeria, 124-126; friendly relations with Majorca, 137
Jayme II., King of Majorca, 48; marriage, 49; to succeed to Majorca, Montpellier, Roussillon, Cerdaña, and Conflent, 50; first separate King of Majorca, 55; character, 56; difficult position, 76; escorted Queen Constance to her ship,78; took leave of his brother, 78; neutrality in the war with France, 83; escorted his nephew from Catalonia, 91; children, 92; Majorca to be occupied, 93; Majorca restored to him, 105, 106; his administration of Majorca, 107, 112; his buildings, 113, 114; death, 118; coinage, 110; mummy, 119
Jayme III., King of Majorca: birth, 130; brought to Perpignan by Muntaner, 133, 134; adopted by his uncle Sancho, 135; his education, 141, 142; homage to the King of Aragon, 142, 143; marriage with Constance of Aragon, 142; protest against Pedro’s usurpation, 145; submission to Pedro fruitless, 146; collected forces to recover Majorca, 147; defeat and death, 148, 149; his character, 149
Jayme IV., King of Majorca: birth, 144; in prison at Barcelona, 147; rescued, 147; wounded and again in prison, 149; married to the Queen of Naples, 152; at the battle of Najara, 153; defence of Burgos, 153; ransomed, 153; marched into Urgel, 154; poisoned by Pedro IV.; buried at Soria, 154. _See_ Chair of Alfavia.
Jayme, eldest son of Jayme II. of Majorca, 92; became a Franciscan, 107, 113
Jayme, Count of Urgel, 143
Jennings, Admiral Sir J., built the hospital at Port Mahon, 264
Jovellanos, Don Gaspar Melchior: account of, 209; imprisonment of, 210; his works on edifices at Palma, 210; public services, 211; death, 211; memorial to, at Belver, 212; Ticknor on, 211
Juan I., King of Aragon, 159; in Majorca, 160
Juan II., King of Aragon: disputes with his son Carlos, 167; death, 168
Juan Manuel, Infante of Castille, 92
Juana of Aragon, Queen of Naples, 168
Juana Henriquez, Queen of Aragon, 168
Juana, reigning Queen of Naples, 152
Junta, Central. _See_ Seville.
Jurats in Minorca, 268
Justicia, Mayor of Aragon, 4
Jutland, Spanish garrisons in, 205
Kane, British Governor of Minorca, 269
Keats, Admiral, embarked Spanish troops at Nyborg, 205, 208
Keith, Admiral Lord, 286, 287; chasing the French fleet, 288
Kellerman, General, 206
_Kent_, H.M.S., in battle off Cape Passaro, 257, 259
Kerr, Captain Lord Mark, 283. _See Cormorant_, H.M.S.
_Kingston_, H.M.S., 274
Labots, Catalina, wife of Lulio, 115
La Cerda, Infantes of, 93, 98
La Granja. _See_ Fortuñy.
_Lancaster_, H.M.S., 274
Lane, Brigadier, at siege of San Felipe (Minorca), 248
Lanoveras, Torre de las, 28
Lanz, Dr., German translator of Muntaner, 55 (_n_)
Las Navas de Tolosa, battle, 5
La Torre (title of Truyalls), 109;
Lauria, Roger de, Admiral of Sicily, 64; victory at Malta, 66; great victory at Naples, 79; to attack the French fleet, 86; victory over the French fleet, 88, 89, 91; death: buried near Pedro III., 94
Law. _See_ Fueros, Jurats, Maritime Law.
Leake, Admiral Sir John: took Cagliari, 245; co-operated with Stanhope in taking Minorca, 246, 247
Lentini, 101
Leonor, daughter of Jayme I., died young, 49
Leonor, daughter of Pedro IV., married Juan I., King of Castille, 155
Leonor, heiress of Navarre, 168
Leonor of Anjou, married Federigo of Sicily, 103
Lerida, university founded by Jayme I., 52
Lesbia, Pedro de, first Procurator-General of Minorca, 235
_Leviathan_, H.M.S., Duckworth’s flagship, 283; off Ciudadela, 285
Lipari Isles, 259
Livy, 226
Lluchmayor founded, 109; battle of, 148, 149
Lodève, M. de, in command of galleys in the Bay of Rosas, 86, 87, 88
Long, Captain Charles, H.M.S. _Peterel_, 283
_Lonja_, or exchange, at Palma, 175, 210
Louis, son of Charlemagne, took Barcelona, 2
Louis IX. of France, 57; refused to attack Manfred of Sicily, 57, 59
Louis XIV. of France, broke his word as regards the Spanish succession, 243
Louis, Prince of the Morea: his heirs, 129
Louis of Burgundy came to dispute the rights of Prince Fernando, 132
Louis of Calabria, 163
_Louisa_, H.M.S., 273, 274
Lulio, or Lul, Raimondo, mentioned early use of the compass, 77; account of, 114, 116, 215; martyrdom, 116; tomb, 116; picture of, 216
Luna, Agustin de, 164
Luna, Count of, 163
Luna, a knight of the family in the Minorca conquest, 231
Lyons Papal Council, King Jayme present, 51
Mago, the Carthaginian: notice of, 225, 226; Port Mahon named from, 226
Mahault of Hainault, 132
Mahon. _See_ Mago, Port Mahon.
Mahon, Dukes of, 280; second title of Earl Stanhope, 252
Majolica ware, 215
Majorca, 1, 8; description, 8, 9; praised by Arab writers, 9; under the Moors, 10, 11; Moorish Amír, 19, 26, 29, 30; defence of the Moorish capital, 30, 31; flight from the capital, 32; first Christian governor, settlement, 39; Fueros, distribution of land, 44, 45; change of the population, government, 46; made a separate kingdom, 50, 55; connection with the affairs of Sicily, 76; occupation by Aragon, 96; restored, 106; administration of Jayme II., 107-111; noble families, 108, 109; towns founded, 109; coinage, 110; usurpation of Pedro IV., 144, 145; royal family of, 149, 159; extinction of Majorca royal family, 155, 160; visit of Juan I. of Aragon, 160; help to Alfonso V. in conquest of Naples, 163; Prince of Viana at, 167; part of the kingdom of Spain, 169; Majorcans as sailors and navigators, 171-174; attacked by Barbary pirates, 137, 163, 177-179; rebellion of the Comuneros, 180-188; historians, 190-192; for the Archduke Charles, 192; liberties abolished by the Bourbons, 192, 193, areas of arborescent growth, 213; people, 214; excellent mechanics, 216; honesty of the people, 217; place in history, 217, 218
Mallol, Berenguer, great sea captain, 65; escorted Queen Constance to Sicily, 77; on the watch, 85; victory in Rosas Bay, 85, 87, 89
Mallorca. _See_ Majorca.
Malta, Lauria’s naval victory at, 66; Majorcan Grand Masters, 194
Manacor founded, 35, 109
Manfred, King of Sicily, 48; enmity of the Pope, 56; invasion by Charles of Anjou, 58; death, 58; Queen of Aragon his heir, 76; his daughter rescued, 81
Manuel, Infante of Castille, married Constance of Aragon, 49; grants to, in Valencia, 50
Marche, Comte de la, 128
Mari family (_see_ Sant Mari), 165
Maria of Naples, wife of Sancho of Majorca, 137
Maria, daughter of Jayme I., nun, 49
Maritime law, code by Jayme I., 52
Markham, Captain. _See Centaur_.
Marlborough, Duke of, urged the capture of Minorca, 245
Marquet, Ramon, great sea captain, 65, 77, 85; victory in Rosas Bay, 86, 87, 89
Marseilles, fleets equipped at, 65, 85
Marti, Jayme, 182
Martin, Pope, his curses against Aragon, 65. _See_ Papal Aggression.
Martin, King of Aragon, 155; founded the Cartuja at Valdemosa, 161, 162
Matagrifone, 81, 129; Count of Andria recognised as Baron of, 129; Jayme III., Lord of, 141
Mataplana, Hugo de, 13; slain, 20
Matthews, Captain H.M.S. _Kent_, 259
Maud, Empress, contemporary with Petronilla, 5
Maza, Pedro, 42; went to reduce Minorca, 43
Mediona, Guillem de, rebuked by King Jayme I. for coming out of action, 18
Melazzo, 258
Mercadal in Minorca, 240, 263
Mercy, Count, Austrian general, to drive the Spaniards out of Sicily, 258-260
Messina, defeat of Charles of Anjou at, 60, 61, 63; Pedro III. at: speech to the Sicilians, 64; rejoicings at Lauria’s victories, 66; Queen Constance at, 79, 81; relieved by Roger de Flor, 102; heiress of the Morea married to Prince Fernando of Majorca at, 129; Sir George Byng off, 256; siege, 260
Metellus and Romans occupied Minorca, 227
Michael, son of the Emperor Andronicus: his hatred of the Company, 104; his murder of Roger de Flor, 105
_Milford_, H.M.S., Captain Philip Stanhope, 245
Minorca, 8; subdued, 43, 44; dimensions, 219; surface and vegetation, 220; plants, 220; stalactitic cave, 221; prehistoric remains, 221-224; Phœnicians and Carthaginians, 225; under the Romans, 227, and Moors, 228, 229; conquest by Alfonso III. of Aragon, 230-234; chronicler, 235; Moors expelled, 236; government under Aragon, 237; attacked by pirates, 237-240; British troops land, under Stanhope, 247; under British rule, 253, 263; magistracy, 267, 268; judiciary, 268; prosperity under British rule, 269; value as a naval base, 258; works on botany of, 270 (_n_); peasantry, 267; restored to England, 279; re-taken by the French, 280; recovered by England, 284; ceded to Spain, 288; subsequent condition, 289, 290
Mint at Palma, tax for support of, 110
Miramar, Lulio’s college at, 115; King Sancho at, 139; Archduke Luis-Salvator, 215, 216
Moanquels on Aragonese frontier, 74
Moix, Antonio and Perote, attack on the cave of Arta, 36
Mola, Cape, 289
Moncada, En Guillem de, Viscount of Bearne, 12; in the leading ship of the fleet to invade Majorca, 13, 14; rebuked the King’s foolhardiness, 17; killed in battle, 20; interment, 21
Moncada, Ramon de, 12, 14, 16; slain, 20; his son: coat of arms granted, 36; Gaston de, grant of Soller to, 41; one of the great Majorca feudatories, 45
Moncada, supporter of Federigo of Sicily, 100; a viceroy of Majorca 190
Monjuich taken by Peterborough, 243
Monroy, 167
Monserrat, Marquis of, married Isabel of Majorca, 154
Montalto, Duchess of, 208
Monte Toro in Minorca, 219
Montenegro, Counts of. _See_ Despuig; _see_ Raxa.
Monterey, Romana defeated by French at, 206
Montfort, Simon de, surrendered young Jayme, 6
Montpellier, Pedro II. married to heiress of, 6; King Jayme in a ship of, 14; marriage of Pedro III. and Constance at, 48; Jayme II. of Minorca succeeded to, 50, 55, 56; promise of France never to interfere with, 60, 105, 137; sold to France by Jayme III., 147
Montserrat, 115
Monzon, Cortes meet at, 47
Moors overrun Spain to the Pyrenees, 1; driven out of Barcelona and Zaragoza, 2; Majorca under, 8, 10, 11; of Majorca defeated, 16, 19; in the mountains of Majorca, 37, 39; surrender to Jayme I., 43; in Minorca, 228-235. _See_ Almeria; Barbary Pirates.
Morea, French principality in, 128, 129; Louis, Prince of, his heirs, 129
Morey, noble family of Majorca, 108
Mujahid ibn al Amari, Amír of the Balearic Isles, 10
Muntaner, his Chronicle, 54, 55; translations, 55 (_n_); his opinion of King Manfred, 58; a leader of the Catalan Company, 104; in charge at Gallipoli, 122; joined Prince Fernando at Thasos, 123; on the prowess of Prince Fernando, 129; Governor of Gerbes, 129; came to Catania with wedding presents, 130; takes Fernando’s child home, 131-134; on the cold of the Majorcan winter, 232; on Prince Fernando’s character, 132
Mur. _See_ Acarte de Mur.
Murat Castle, Pedro II. killed in battle near, 6
Murcia, conquest by Jayme I., 49
Murray, General, gallant defence of Minorca, 280
Murviedro, 186
Mustapha, Turkish leader who landed at Minorca, 240
Mut, Don Vicente, historian of Majorca, 191
Najara, battle of, Jayme IV. at, 153
Naples occupied by Charles of Anjou, 58; naval victory of Roger de Lauria, 79; Charles II. acknowledged as king by Jayme II. of Aragon, 98; Queen married to Jayme IV. of Majorca, 152, 153; taken by Alfonso V., 163, 167; tournament at, 164, 166; Prince of Viana escaped to, 167; Sir George Byng’s fleet at, 255, 258
Narbonne, ship from, 13, 154
Naus. _See_ Prehistoric Remains.
Navarre founded by Garcia Jimenes, 2; Juan II. of Aragon married heiress, 167; Leonor married Gaston de Foix, 168
Navia de Suara, 206
Naya, Bertram de, brought King Jayme’s armour to him, 18
Negropont, 123
Nevers, Comte de, married a co-heiress of the Morea, 129
Ney, Marshal, 206
Nicotera, 63
Nobility of Majorca, 45, 108, 109; murders by the Comuneros, 183; take refuge at Alcudia, 182; services, 193
Nona, besieged by the Company, 121
Noyet, captain at Ciudadela when besieged by the Turks, 240
Nuño de Sans at Las Navas de Tolosa, 5; Count of Roussillon, 12, 14; landed at Majorca, 16; defeated the Moors, 19, 20; fight for the water-supply, 27; negotiations with the Amír, 29, 30, 32; with Jayme I. at the caves, 35, 36; with Jayme on his second visit to Majorca, 40; one of the great feudatories of Majorca, 45; death, Jayme I. his heir, 49
Nyborg in Funen, Spanish troops embarked at, 205, 208
Ochali, a renegade, 178
Oleza, noble family of Majorca, 108; Bernardo de, Master of the Mint, 110; Jayme served against Comuneros, 189
Olive cultivation, 110, 111, 213
Omeyya Khâlifahs, Balearic Isles under. _See_ Umiyyah.
_Orford_, H.M.S., in battle off Cape Passaro, 237
Oudenarde, 277
Oviedo, Romana at, 206
Pagano, illegitimate son of Prince Fernando of Majorca, 135, 142, 143; married to Blanca, daughter of Ramon Sabellos, 143; always faithful to Jayme III., 148
Palermo, Pedro III. crowned at, 60; arrival of Queen Constance, 78; Robert of Naples landed at, 128, 261
Palma, afterwards so called, Moorish capital of Majorca, 22; gates, 22; description, 23; siege, 25, 26; defence, 30; assault, 31; pillage, pestilence, 33; cathedral commenced, 42, 43; description of the cathedral, 112; monastery of San Francisco founded, 113; arsenal, 170; Lonja, 175, 214; Charles V. at, 176; Comuneros, 181-188; bookseller at, 192; besieged by the Bourbon party, 192; fortifications, 193; Montenegro palace, 197, 198; monument to Marquis of Romana in the cathedral, 208; edifices, streets, palaces, 214; Grand Hotel, 218; Rambla and Paseo de Borne, 218
Palma Bay, 8, 22
Palomera, 14, 38
Palou, En Berenger de, Bishop of Barcelona, 12
Panisars, Hill of, 84, 154
Pantalen Island, King Jayme on, 14
Papal aggression against King Manfred of Sicily, 56, 57, 58; against Aragon, 65, 82, 92; mediation of Edward I. of England, 96. _See_ Boniface VIII.; Martin.
Pascual, Pedro, procurator of Jayme III., 145
Passaro, Cape, defeat of Spanish fleet off, 257
Pax, Pedro, defended Belver against the Comuneros, 182, 183; son commanded at Alcudia, 183; Viceroy of Majorca, 190
Pedro II., King of Aragon, at Las Navas de Tolosa, 5; married the heiress of Montpellier, 6; father of Jayme I., 6
Pedro III., King of Aragon, 5; birth and marriage, 40; succession, 53; character, 56; denounced the Pope’s plot against King Manfred, 57; took up Conradin’s glove, 58; arrived in Sicily, 60; crowned at Palermo, 60; accepted the challenge of Charles of Anjou, 64; speech to Sicilians at Messina, 64; resolved to keep his tryst, 67; preparations for his journey to Bordeaux, 68, 69; his disguise, 70; rode down the lists at Bordeaux, 73; return in safety, 73, 74; his horse’s hoof-marks, 74, 75; grief at parting with Queen Constance, 77, 78; embassy at Rome, 82; repulse of the French invasion, 84-91; reason for occupying Majorca, 92, 93; death, 94; character, 95
Pedro IV., King of Aragon, the Ceremonious, 143; coveted Majorca, hated his cousin, 143, 144; his intrigues against Majorca, 144; his usurpation of Majorca, 145; hatred of Jayme IV., 154; death, 155
Pedro, Infante of Portugal, Governor of Majorca, 40, 42; death, 49
Pedro, youngest son of Pedro III., 95
Pedro, brother of Alfonso V., killed at the siege of Naples, 167
Pedro, King of Castille, joined by Jayme IV. of Majorca, 153
Pera, Cape, King Jayme made bonfires at, 44
Peralada, birthplace of Muntaner, 54, 85, 90, 91
Peratallada, Bernardo de, companion of Pedro III. on his ride to Bordeaux, 69-70; rewarded, 74
Perpignan, 78; French army at, 84, 105, 111, 127, 131, 148, 154; Prince Fernando buried at, 132; King Sancho buried at, 140; seized by Pedro IV., 147
Peterborough, Earl of, 243
_Peterel_, H.M.S., 283
Petronilla, heiress of Aragon, marriage with the Count of Barcelona, 2
Philip. _See_ Felipe.
Philippe le Hardi, King of France: married Isabel of Aragon, 49; interview with the Aragonese kings, 59; absolved by the Pope from keeping faith with Aragon, 65; came to Bordeaux, 67; discomfited, 74, 75; called upon by the Pope to dethrone the King of Aragon, 82; invasion, defeat, and death, 83, 84, 90
Philippe, eldest son of France: opposed to the invasion of Aragon, 83, 84; remonstrance to his father, 84; flight from Catalonia with his father’s body, 90
Phœnicians at Minorca, 225
_Phœnix_, H.M.S., 273, 274
Pines (Aleppo), area covered with, in Majorca, 213
Pirates. _See_ Barbary.
Pisa, fleets of, oppose piracy of Majorcans, 11, 98
Plegamans, Ramon de, contractor for the Majorca invasion, 13; newsagent, 39
Pollenza, Jayme I. off, 14, 28; Moors land at, 176, relief expedition arrived at, 184; desperate resistance of Comuneros, 185
Pont, Dr., Bishop of Palma, 185
Porrasa, 15; cavalry landed at, 17, 94
Porreras founded, 109
_Portland_, H.M.S., 274
Port Mahon, 225; founded, 227; Alfonso III. at, 232; built by order of Alfonso III., 235; taken by Barbarossa, 237, 238; joyfully received the British, 247; a base for the British fleet, 253, 285; Sir George Byng’s fleet at, 255; capital under the British, 263; description, 264
Portolani. _See_ Valseca.
Porto Pi, Moorish army at, 17, 28, 29; King Jayme landed at, 42, 165; hotel at, 218
Portugal: Infante Don Pedro, 40; Isabel, Queen, 95
Prehistoric remains in Minorca: (1) towns; (2) naus; (3) taulas or bilithons; (4) talayuts, 222-225
Procida, John of, 78
Provençal fleet, 66
Provence, Count of: daughters all Queens, 57
Puebla, 164, 186
Puig Cerdan, pass in the Pyrenees, 154
Puig Galatzo, 8
Puig Mayor, 8, 41
Puig de Massanella, 41
Puig de l’Ofre, 41
Puigdorfila, noble Majorcan family, 109; Guillermo de, friend of King Jayme II., 118; Juan de, 182; murdered by Comuneros, 183
Pula, 246
Pyrenees, 1; paths known to La Figuera, 63; crossed by Jayme IV., 154
Quadruple Alliance, 254
Quinctilius Varro, 226
_Ramillies_, H.M.S., Byng’s flagship, 274
Ramiro I., first King of Aragon, 2
Ramis, Juan Ramis y, Chronicler of Minorca, wrote the ‘Alonsiada,’ 235; his list of ‘Talayots,’ 223; on the botany of Minorca, 270 (_n_)
Randa, 115
Raxa, country seat of the Counts of Montenegro, 195, 197
Raymond, Berenger, Cousin of Jayme I., 6; Count of Barcelona 2, 4
Reggio, 64
_Revenge_, H.M.S., 274
Richard III. of England, 5
Richelieu, Duc de, captured Minorca, 273, 275
Ricos Hombres, 4
Robert, King of Naples, 92, 102; starved Rocafort to death, 123; designs against Federigo, 127; landed at Palermo, 128; besieged Trapani, truce, 128
Robertson, Mr., sent by Mr. Frere to communicate with Romana, 204
Rocaberti, Jofre, Viscount, 13; Count of Campofranco, 109; Pedro, Archbishop of Tarragona, 134
Rocafort, a knight in attendance on Jayme I., 18; Berenguer de, a leader of the Catalan Company, 103; disputes with Entenza, 105; intrigues against Prince Fernando, 121, 122; deposed, miserable death, 123
Rocafull, Don Guillem de, Viceroy of Majorca, 174, and Minorca, 241
Rodriguez y Femanias on the botany of Minorca, 271 (_n_)
Romana, Marquis de la (_see_ Caro): creation, 201; Pedro Caro, Marquis, his birth, 202; friendship with Hookham Frere, 202; character drawn by Southey, 202; sent to Denmark with Spanish troops, 203; return with troops, 205; campaign in Galicia, 206; on the Central Junta at Seville, 207; with Wellington at Torres Vedras, 207; death, appreciation by Wellington, 207; monument at Palma, 208, 209; later marquises and marriages, 209
Rosas Bay, 84, 85; defeat of the French fleet, 87
Roussillon, 6; Nuño do Sans, Count of, 12, 20, 49; Jayme II. to succeed to, 50, 55, 56, 153
Rovira, Nicolas de, jailer of Jayme IV., killed, 152
Ruidemeya, Bernardo de, first to land in Majorca, 16
Sagrera, Guillem, architect of the Lonja at Palma, 175
Sagres, 174
Salonica, 122
Salou, fleet of Jayme I. assembled at, 13, 40, 94, 134, 232, 285
Salva, Pedro, architect of Belver, 114
Samnium, 225
Sancha, Princess of Majorca, married to King Robert of Naples, 92
Sancho, King of Majorca, 92, 107; imprisoned by Alfonso III., 136; succeeded, 136; married Maria of Naples, 137; precautions against Barbary pirates, 137; negotiations respecting Montpellier, 137; aid in conquest of Corsica and Sardinia, 138; castle at Valdemosa, 138, 162; his falcons, at Miramar, 139, 160; death in the Pyrenees, 139; his will, 140; coinage, 140
Sancho, illegitimate son of Prince Fernando of Majorca, 136, 142, 143; married Lauria, daughter of Ferrario Rossella, 143; always faithful to his brother, Jayme III., 148
Sancho IV., usurping King of Castille: promise to help Pedro III. against France, 83; failure to keep his promise, Pedro incensed against him, 93; alliance with Jayme II. of Aragon, 88
Sand, Georges, 162, 172, 173
Sans. _See_ Aluño de Sans.
Santander, 205
Santa Agueda, Monte de, in Minorca, 220; surrender of Moors at, 234
Santañi founded, 109; stones for Palma cathedral from, 112
Santa Ana, chapel in the Almudaina, 111
_San Carlos_ ship (sixty guns), 257
Santa Cilia, noble family of Majorca, 109; inherited Alfavia, 142, 156; coat of arms, 157; Pedro Juan, received Charles V. at Palma, 176; origin, 142; friend of Jayme III., 142; Arnaldo de, 157
San Clemente, Jayme de, rescued Jayme IV. from prison, 132
Santa Cruz Abbey: Pedro III. and Admiral Roger de Lauria buried at, 94; Alfonso III. at his father’s tomb, 96
San Felipe Castle, Minorca, 233; siege and capture by Stanhope, 248; description, 248; attacked by the French, 274; recovered, 284
San Francisco Abbey. _See_ Palma.
San Francisco at Port Mahon: Moorish atrocities, 239
Santiago, 115
St. Julian Mount, in Sicily, 128
Santa Maria de Formiguera in Cerdaña, King Sancho died at, 134
San Miguel Church at Palma, 32
Sant Marti, noble family of Majorca, 109
San Nicolas Church at Palma: meeting of Comuneros, 181, 218
_Santa Rosa_, ship (sixty-four guns), 257
St. Stephen’s Cave, Minorca, 264, 265
San Vicente de Ferrer visited Majorca, 161, 163
St. Vincent, Lord, resolved to recover Minorca, 282; resigned from ill health, 286
Sardinia ceded to Aragon by the Pope, 98, 118, 138, 143; secured to Archduke Charles by Sir John Leake, 245; seized by the Spaniards, 254
Saumarez, Admiral, in the Baltic, 202, 204
Saunders, Admiral, 276
Sciacca, 100
Scipio, 226
Seckendorf, Count, to occupy the Lipari Isles, 259
Serra, Ramon, at conquest of Minorca, 43
Severo, Bishop of the Balearic Isles, at the Council of Toledo, 228
Seville, Central Junta at, Romana on, 206, 207; Jovellanos on, 211
Sicily, arms, 3; Manfred, King of, 48; Sicilian Vespers, 60; delivered from the French yoke, 63; Parliament condemned Charles II. of Anjou, 81; abandoned to the Pope by Jayme II., defended by Federigo, 98; Spanish army landed, 255, 256. _See_ Pedro III., Constance, Federigo.
Silpia, 226
Sineu founded, 109
Soller, King Jayme I. landed at, 40; peaks visible from, 40, 41; Juan I. landed at, 160; attacked by pirates, 178; hotel at, 218
Soria, Jayme IV. of Minorca buried at, 155
Soult, Marshal, 206
Spanish Succession (_see_ Succession): fleet chased by Byng, 257, 258; troops evacuated Sicily, 261. _See_ Romana.
Stanhope, General, account of, 244; letter from Duke of Marlborough to, urging the capture of Minorca, 245; his Minorca expedition, 245, 246; captured the castle of San Felipe, 248, 249; letter of the Emperor Charles VI. to, on the abandonment of the Catalans, 251, 252
Stanhope, Captain Philip, H.M.S. _Milford_, 245; death at siege of San Felipe, 249
Staremburg, Baron, 244
Stuart, General, 273; recovered Minorca, 283
Succession to the crown of Aragon after the death of King Martin, 162; claimants, Count of Urgel, Fernando de Antiquera, Louis of Calabria, Duke of Gandia, Count of Luna (whom see); Spanish War of, 192, 242
_Superbe_, H.M.S., flagship of Sir G. Byng, 257, 273
Sureda, noble family of Majorca: Count of Desbrull, 109; Don Juan, 162; Salvador, equipped vessels against pirates, 163; duel with Valseca, 164, 166; served against Comuneros, 189; Viceroy of Majorca, 190, 214
Syracuse, 99, 101, 257
Talayots. _See_ Prehistoric Remains.
Taormina, 66, 260
Tarentum, Prince of, son of Charles II. of Anjou: sent to Sicily against Federigo, taken prisoner, 99, 100
Tarragona, Archbishop of, 12; Cortes at, for the invasion of Minorca, 231
_Taula. See_ Prehistoric Remains.
Teix of Valdemosa, 41
Templars, Master of the, lands, 16; grant to, 46
Temple, Lord, 277, 278
Termens, En Oliver de: his dinner to King Jayme I., 20
Termini, 100, 261
Terminos, administrative divisions of Minorca, 263
Thasos, Prince Fernando and Muntaner at, 123
Ticknor on Jovellanos, 211
Togores, noble family of Majorca, Counts of Ayamans, 109; title granted, 193; Mateo, served against the Comuneros, 189, 214. _See_ Moncada.
Toledo, Council of, Bishop of Balearic Isles at, 228
Torella de Monguin, 136
Tornamira, Berenguer de, 233
Toro, Monte, in Minorca, 219
Torre, Marquis de la (_see_ Truyalls), 21
Torrella, Bernardo de Santa Eugenia de, 12; landed in Majorca with King Jayme, 16, 214; fight for the water-supply at Canet, 27; first Governor of Majorca, 37; his brother the first Bishop, 37; country seat at Canet, 37, 199; his settlement of the country, 39, 42; sent to subdue Minorca, 43; Alfonso, resisted the Comuneros, 189
Torres Vedras, 207
Tortosa, Catalan dockyard at, 59; retreat of the French from, 245
Toulouse, 154
Tournament at Naples, 164, 166; at Bordeaux. _See_ Pedro III.
Trapani, 6, 57, 99, 128
Trebia, battle of, 225
Tremecen, sent help to Minorca Moors, 231
Trevanion, Captain, H.M.S. _York_, 245
Truyalls, noble family of Majorca, Marquis de la Torre, 109, 214; Bernardo, executor of King Sancho’s will, 140
Tunis, King of, threatened invasion of Majorca, 39, 40
Tunis, expedition of Charles V. to 176, 237
Turks attack Minorca, 240
Tyrawly, Lord, 276
Ubaque, Dr. Francisco, sent to restore order in Majorca, 184
Umiyyah Khâlifas, Balearic Isles under, 10, 228
Urgel: heiress married Infante of Portugal, 40; occupied by Jayme IV., 154; Count of, represented male line of House of Aragon, 162, 163
Uriols, 160
Urrea, Don Miguel de, Viceroy of Majorca during the Comuneros troubles, 181-189
Utrecht, Treaty of: Catalans abandoned, 251
Valdemosa, Teix of, 41; castle of King Sancho, 138; Juan I. at, 160; King Martin founded the Cartuja, 161; summer residence of Don Juan Sureda, 162; Georges Sand and Chopin at, 162; attacked by pirates, 177, 183
Valencia, conquest by Jayme I., 48; death of Jayme I. at, 56; home of Muntaner, 54; dockyard at, 59; Jayme III. buried at, 130; taken by Peterborough, 243
Valseca, his duel with Sureda, 164, 166
Valseca Portolano, description, 170-175; owned by Amerigo Vespucci, 172
Velasco, Don Juan, 184, 188
Venetians, 123
Viana, Carlos, Prince of, 167, 168
Villafranca captured by Romana, 206
Villafranca de Panales, illness and death of Pedro III. at, 94
Villalonga, noble family of Majorca, 109, 189, 214, 215
Villalonga, Priamo de, 24; his defence of the castle of Palma, 85
Villanova, a knight of Peralada, King of France died in his house, 90
Vines in Majorca, extent of cultivation, 109, 213
Violante of Aragon, Queen of Naples, 95
Violante of Aragon, wife of Alfonso X., 49
Violante of Hungary, Queen of Aragon, 8
Walton, Captain H.M.S. _Canterbury_, his business-like report, 257
Wellesley, Lord, 207
Wellington, Duke of, his appreciation of the Marquis of Romana, 207, 209
West, Rear-admiral, attacked the French ships of Minorca, 275; superseded, but conduct approved, 276; evidence of Byng’s court martial, 277; disapproved of the execution of Byng, 278
Whitaker, Sir Edward, off Port Mahon, 248
Xilvella, a farm in Valencia, home of Muntaner, 54
Ximenes Ferrar, a leader in the Catalan Company, opposed to Rocafort, 121; flight, 122
Xoarp, Moorish chief holding out in the Majorca mountains, 39
York, H.M.S., in Minorca expedition under Stanhope, 248; off Minorca, 247
Zaforteza, noble family of Majorca, 109, 214; inheritors of Alfavia, 156; Don José Burguez Zaforteza, 156, 165; arms 157
Zaforteza, Leonardo, 176
Zaforteza, Pedro Juan, escaped to Alcudia, 183, 189
Zaforteza, Viceroy of Majorca 190, 193
Zaforteza Palace at Palma, 214, 218
Zaragoza taken from the Moors, 2; coronation of Pedro III. at, 56; Pedro III. and his family at, 69, 74; coronation of Alfonso III., 96; coronation of Jayme II., 97
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[1] The more generally accepted story is that when the Count of Barcelona was severely wounded in a battle between Charles the Bald and the Normans, the Emperor came to the wounded Count’s tent and asked what reward he could give to a warrior to whom he owed so much. The Count asked for the grant of a charge on his plain gold shield. The Emperor dipped his hand in the blood from the Count’s wound, and passed his four fingers down the shield. ‘A device gained by blood,’ he said, ‘should be marked with blood.’
[2] The Teutonic word _Rik_ signified valiant or powerful, not rich in our sense. It was a frequent ending to names, as Theodoric, Alaric. The _Ricos Hombres_ of Aragon bore a caldron on their arms, as a sign that they could maintain many men in the field, and they used a _señera_, or banner. These were ‘Ricos Hombres do Señera.’ There were also nine families of ‘Ricos Hombres’ ‘le naturaleza,’ nobles before the Moors came. These were Cornelas, Lunas, Azagras, Forcas, Urreas, Alagones, Romeos, Entenzas, Lizanas. Several Castilian nobles, especially the Dukes of Medina Sidonia, also bore caldrons on their arms.
[3] Nine miles.
[4] November 30.
[5] The chronicle of Muntaner was written in the Catalan language, and first published at Valencia in 1558, and next at Barcelona in 1562. Buchon published a French translation at Paris in 1827 in the ‘Collection des croniques nationales Françaises.’ In 1844 an Italian translation was published at Florence. Buchon published a new translation in 1848 in the _Panthéon Littéraire_. Dr. Lanz published a German translation in 1842 at Leipzig; and added the Catalan text in a volume published at Stuttgart in 1844. In 1860 a Spanish translation, with the Catalan text in parallel columns, edited by Don Antonio de Bofarull, was published at Barcelona. As yet there is no English translation of this charming historical narrative. It was used by Gibbon.
[6] First cousin of En Pedro III. of Aragon.
[7] Aladil = [Illustration], ‘the Just.’
[8] ‘Awake iron!’
[9] Between Palamos and Palafurgall, or Capes Gros and San Sebastian.
[10] Extinct.
[11] Extinct.
[12] The best account of the coinage of Majorca is in the Appendix to Bover’s _Historia de la casa real de Mallorca y noticia de las monedas proprias de esta isla_ (Palma, 1855).
[13] So says Fray Pedro Marsilio, the editor in Latin of the _Journal_ of Jayme I. But the olive grows wild in Majorca. The cultivated olive is grown from the plains to a height of two thousand feet in the mountains.
[14] _Carta historico-artistica sobre el edificio de la Iglesia Cathedral de Palma que escribio el Exmo Don Gaspar de Jovellanos_ (Palma, 1832).
[15] So called because, when he unjustly put the brothers Carbajal to death, they summoned him to meet them before the judgment-seat of God on a day which they named. Fernando IV. died suddenly on that very day.
[16] ‘Esperonte’ was a salient angle in the curtain of a fortified place, generally in front of a gate.
[17] A princess of Hainault, through another descent from the Prince of the Morea, also claimed the Lordship of Clarencia. Philippa of Hainault, Queen of Edward III., inherited this honorary title, and it was given to her second son Lionel. This is a more probable origin of the title than that it was derived from the Lordship of Clare. In that case it would be Clare, not Clarence.
[18] I have to thank Mr. Gilbert Ogilvy for the sketches of the chair, and the photograph.
[19] ‘_Sentencias Morales_’ de Nicolas de Pacho, quoted by Miguel Mir in his _Influencia de los Aragoneses en el descubrimiento de America_.
[20] Salazar, _Discursos sobre los progresos de la hidrografia_.
[21] See _Carta historico-artistica sobre el edificio de la Lonja de Mallorca_, escribio en 1807 el Exmo Señor Don Gaspar de Jovellanos (Palma, 1835).
[22] _Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman_, translated and edited by Clements R. Markham (Hakluyt Society, 1862).
[23] _Nobiliario Mallorquin_, por Don Joaquim M. Bover (Palma, 1850). This is a very scarce book and difficult to get.
[24] Pp. 222-271. This excellent little book is also to be had in Mr. Guasp’s shop.
[25] _Nobleza de Andalusia_, Argote de Molina.
[26] _Wellington Dispatches_, January 26, 1811, vol. vii. p. 190.
[27] _History of Spanish Literature_, vol. iii. p. 281.
[28] _Etudes géologiques sur les Iles Baléares_ (Paris, 1879).
[29] _Flora de las Islas Baleares_ (Palma, 1879-1881). This book may also be got at the shop of Mr. Guasp, in Morey Street.
[30] _The Balearic Islands_, by Charles Toll Bidwell, H.M. Consul, 1876.
[31] Toulouse, 1892.
[32] See p. 44.
[33] See p. 94.
[34] See p. 62. Gayangos (in _Makkari_) says that ‘Almughawar,’ whence the Spanish ‘Almogavar,’ means a soldier employed in border warfare.
[35] From the root _Kharaf_, to collect the harvest. The collector of the land tax was called _Al-mokharif_.
[36] Since Dr. Cleghorn’s time, several natives of the island have studied its botany.
Juan Cursach, a native of Ciudadela, who was educated at Montpelier (1759-1837), published at Mahon his _Botanicus medicus ad medicinæ alumnorum usum_. He enumerated 270 plants, of which 160 were said to be natives.
Juan Ramis y Ramis, of Mahon (1746-1819), published at Mahon _Specimen animalium vegetabilium et mineralium in insula Minoricæ frequentiorum, ad normam Linneani sistematis._ He enumerates 140 plants.
Rafael Hernandez y Mercadal (1779-1857), a doctor of Mahon, formed a Minorca herbarium of 500 species. It is now lost.
Rafael Oles y Cuadredo, of Ciudadela (1806-1879), in 1859 called the _Droguero farmaceutico_. It includes an interesting account of the topography of the island.
Don Juan Joaquin Rodriquez y Femanias studied the vegetation of Minorca for many years, and published in 1865-68 a _Catalogo razonado de las plantas vasculares de Minorca_.
See also the _Flores de las islas Baleares_, 1870-81, of Francisco Barcelo y Combis.
[37] Bidwell, p. 308.
[Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]