France, Feudal: Perpignan, 1 Ternet – 1611

Description

Historically part of the Septimania, in 1172 it joins the Crown of Aragon. In 1379 his study is endorsed as a university by the Pope. In the historical confrontation between Aragon and France for the control of the Western Mediterranean, Perpiñan will alternately go through the control of both kingdoms. With the union in Carlos I of all Habsburg territories, it will become a border in an increased conflict. Therefore, both Carlos I and Felipe II increased the fortifications of the city. After the wars of the 19th century (30 years, reaisors …), who saw the hegemony of the Habsburg, the city was definitely assigned to France for the peace of the Pyrenees. In 1660 the Catalan generality that had moved to Perpignan after the fall of Barcelona in 1654 is eliminated by the French.