The register of the count-king's feudal rights, finished a few years before 1200 and in use at Peter II's court: some 900 charters of homage, convention, oath, sale and marriage arranged by county and lineage, covering Catalonia, Roussillon, Cerdanya, Pallars, Urgell, the Carcassonne and Beziers lands of the Trencavels, Provence and Aragon. It is the only way to say what the crown of Aragon held of whom on 1 January 1200, castle by castle. Its illuminations also show the ceremonies of homage.
About this source
- Title
- Liber Feudorum Maior
- Author
- Various; compiled by Ramon de Caldes for Alfonso II of Aragon
- Author's dates
- Ramon de Caldes died 1199
- Written
- compiled 1192 to 1194
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- 10th century to 1192
- Kind
- Charters and cartularies
Only 114 of the original 888 folios survive; Miquel Rosell reconstructed the rest from copies. The Spanish Ministry of Culture has digitised the manuscript but the link was not verified here.
Where to read it
Editions
- F. Miquel Rosell (ed.), Liber feudorum maior: cartulario real que se conserva en el Archivo de la Corona de Aragon, 2 vols (Barcelona, 1945 to 1947), not free (not freely online)