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About Me
In a previous post about Queens of Castile, I mentioned I would be doing an accompanying post about a few of the Queens and Princesses of Aragon. As I mentioned in that previous post, one of the things I loved about the Iberian monarchies is the role of women. This idea of the Queen-Lieutenant although a feature of all Iberian Catholic monarchies, originated in and was most prominent at the court of Aragon.
Eleanor of Sicily was born in the daughter of Peter II King of Sicily and Elizabeth of Carinthia; now Eleanor&#;s childhood was a tense one with the court in Sicily dominated by strife between a) the throne and the nobility, especially the oldest most prestigious families i.e the Ventimiglia, Palizzi and Chiaramonte, and b) Sicily and Naples &#; the two kingdoms were in a near eternal pissing match for dominance. The tense situation wasn&#;t helped by the fact that her father was not exactly the strongest of monarchs in fact most of his contemporaries regarded him as being feeble minded with Giovanni Villani referring to him as &#;quasi un mentacatto&#; (&#;almost an imbecile&#;) whilst Nicola Speciale was a tad nicer calling him &#;purus et simplex&#; (&#;pure & simple&#;). Eleanor&#;s mother was not quite feele minded and upon the death of Peter II in
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I. Naval Contributions of Iberian Jews
The Earliest Participation of the Jews in the Naval Affairs of Spain and Portugal&#;Jehuda Cresques, or Jaime Ribes&#;Joao II. and his Astronomical Junta.
Owing to their favorable geographical situation, Spain and Portugal early became prominent maritime powers. Their discoveries and conquests in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries astonished the world, and turned its history into new channels. The Spaniards, particularly the people of Catalonia and Aragon, were especially active in maritime affairs. Their shipping and foreign trade developed so rapidly that they rivalled, and, in fact, soon surpassed, the mercantile marine of Venice, Pisa, and Genoa, the older commercial cities of Italy.
As early as the beginning of the thirteenth century, Barcelona's commerce with Alexandria, the capital and chief seaport of Egypt, and with the north coast of Africa, was of great importance, in spite of papal prohibitions. Even in the middle of the twelfth century the Jewish traveller Benjamin of Tudela, the predecessor of Marco Polo, mentions the prosperity of Barcelona. To inform himself concerning his co-religionists he had visited the greater part of Southern Europe, of Africa, and of Asia, and his well-known book of travels was translat