The union of John II and his first wife, Blanca I of Navarre, born Carlos de Viana, Principe de Viana first, than the marriage of 1419 was to inherit the kingdom of Navarre on the death of his mother. But in 1441, when I die Blanca, Juan II usurped the throne of Navarre. The result was civil war between 1451 and 1455 Navarre facing agramonteses, supporters of King John, and beamonteses agree with Carlos. Juan Carlos II final defeat at the Battle of Aibar in 1452. The emotional climate generated by the imprisonment of Charles, his father ordered the 1460, did go on the offensive to the privileged classes in the Principality.
Courts Lerida that same year elected a Council of the Principality which the king demanded the immediate release of his son. Attitude is strongly coupled to the lifting of beamonteses Spanish Navarre and mobilization at the border of Aragon, the king was forced to give way, releasing Carlos and accepting the surrender of Vilafranca del Penedes (1461), which reflects the political demands of the Catalan oligarchy, including the prohibition of the king to enter without permission from the Catalonia Generalitat.
But the sudden death of the Prince of Viana, the three weeks of its release, alter the apparent pacification. Find and those of the tenants tried to recover positions, provoking a peasant uprising in 1462 and with the support of the king of France, John II enters the Principality without permission of the Council. The response of the Catalans to organize an army to crush the peasant uprising and dismiss the king in June 1462.
Get more:
- King Charles, Prince Rupert and the Civil War: From Original Letters by Sir Charles Petrie (Hardcover - Oct 31, 1974)
- King Charles, Prince Rupert, and the Civil War: From Original Letters by Sir Charles (editor). PETRIE (Hardcover - Jan 1, 1974)
- The Essential Hyperion (Label Highlight Compilation) by Stephen Varcoe, Thea King, Thomas Arne, and Luigi Boccherini (Audio CD - Feb 13, 1995)
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