The customary law the count-king's court applied in Catalonia in 1200: the peace and truce, the rights of the count over castles, roads and coinage, the fines for injury by rank, judicial combat and the position of knights, townsmen and Jews. It had been in force for half a century and was being cited in the Liber Feudorum Maior's generation. Read with that register for how Peter II's lordship worked.
About this source
- Title
- Usatici Barchinonae (Usatges de Barcelona)
- Author
- Anonymous, ascribed to Ramon Berenguer I
- Written
- mid 12th century, with additions to about 1200
- Language
- Latin, with later Catalan versions
- Covers
- the feudal and public law of the county of Barcelona
- Kind
- Law
Added beyond the seed list. The attribution to Ramon Berenguer I (died 1076) is a fiction of the text; the oldest manuscript is late 12th century. No free copy located in this pass.
Where to read it
Editions
- J. Bastardas (ed.), Usatges de Barcelona: el codi a mitjan segle XII (Barcelona, 1984), not free (not freely online)
Translations
- D. J. Kagay, The Usatges of Barcelona: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia (1994), English, not free (not freely online)