Kingdom of Valencia
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Oct 24, 2026
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
And this is its ambition to move further south and conquer Egypt.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
into the kingdom of Valencia, right? So this is another Muslim entity based in Valencia and you have all this land in between Tortosa and Valencia and there's this ambition to conquer it.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
But this is something I talk about in my second book in the problem of conquest, right? It's like, how do you digest conquest? How does governmental systems absorb these lands? That takes a long time.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
There's a big gap.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
And Torchurch doesn't have that, right? But then, this is the part of the story I haven't told yet, right, is that Tortosa gets its own hybridity, right? So because you have this Visigothic idea of what Tortosa's, this precedent of the Visigothic history of what Tortosa's diocese constituted.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
They believed that it extended deep into Muslim territory past the area they had been able to conquer, which kind of stopped at the Igbo River, a little past the Igbo River in the mid-12th century, and this is its ambition to move further south and conquer into the Kingdom of Valencia.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
So this is another Muslim entity based in Valencia, and you have all this land in between Tortosa and Valencia, and And there's this ambition to conquer it.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
But this is something I talk about in my second book, you know, the problem of conquest, right? It's like, how do you digest conquest? How does government, governance, kind of governmental systems absorb these lands, right? So that takes a long time, right? And so between, there's a big gap.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
And this is its ambition to move further south and conquer Egypt.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
into the kingdom of Valencia, right? So this is another Muslim entity based in Valencia and you have all this land in between Tortosa and Valencia and there's this ambition to conquer it.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
But this is something I talk about in my second book in the problem of conquest, right? It's like, how do you digest conquest? How does governmental systems absorb these lands? That takes a long time.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
There's a big gap.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
And Torchurch doesn't have that, right? But then, this is the part of the story I haven't told yet, right, is that Tortosa gets its own hybridity, right? So because you have this Visigothic idea of what Tortosa's, this precedent of the Visigothic history of what Tortosa's diocese constituted.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
They believed that it extended deep into Muslim territory past the area they had been able to conquer, which kind of stopped at the Igbo River, a little past the Igbo River in the mid-12th century, and this is its ambition to move further south and conquer into the Kingdom of Valencia.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
So this is another Muslim entity based in Valencia, and you have all this land in between Tortosa and Valencia, and And there's this ambition to conquer it.
Thomas W. BartonGUEST
But this is something I talk about in my second book, you know, the problem of conquest, right? It's like, how do you digest conquest? How do you, how does government, governance, kind of governmental systems absorb these lands, right? So that's a, that takes a long time, right? And so, so between, there's a big gap.
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Valencia, in 1494, is one of the great cities of the Mediterranean, with perhaps 70 or 80,000 people, richer and more populous than Barcelona.
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It is the capital of the Kingdom of Valencia, one of the realms of the Crown of Aragon, and it speaks its own language, Valencian, a form of Catalan.
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It is a city of merchants, silk weavers, sugar traders, bankers and craftsmen.
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It printed one of the very first books produced in Spain in 1474, and only four years ago, in 1490, its presses produced the great chivalric romance Tirant-Loblanc, which Cervantes, a century later, will call the best book of its kind in the world.
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There is a Genoese woman called Bianca, who speaks to the Genoese sailors in their own dialect and does very well with them.
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There is a woman from Castile called Mencia, older than the others, who has worked in brothels in Seville, Toledo and Burgos and knows every trick of the trade.
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And there are two younger women, both from villages in the Kingdom of Valencia, who have been in the Pobla for less than a year.
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Who were the women of the Pobla? The records suggest that they came from many places, from the city and kingdom of Valencia, from Castile, Aragon and Catalonia, from Italy, France and beyond.
Angela PucaHOST
In Portugal, much of the institutional inheritance passed into the Order of Christ.
Angela PucaHOST
In the Kingdom of Valencia, negotiations eventually contributed to the creation of the Order of Montesa in 1317, which received former Templar holdings there.
Angela PucaHOST
There are genuine continuities.
Angela PucaHOST
They leave documents, property transfers and recognised institutions.
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