Catalan Republic (1641)
Catalan Republic República Catalana ( Pau Claris | |||||||||
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Legislature | Junta de Braços | ||||||||
Historical era | Reapers' War | ||||||||
• Proclaimed | 17 January 1641 | ||||||||
• Louis XIII of France appointed Count of Barcelona | 23 January 1641 | ||||||||
Currency | Croat and others | ||||||||
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Today part of | France Spain ∟ Catalonia |
The Catalan Republic (
As the conflict with the Spanish Monarchy escalated and its armies were approaching to Barcelona, the Junta de Braços of Catalonia, headed by the President of the
History
During the
With the victory of the army of the Marquis of Los Vélez in
As a result of the negotiation, on 16 January, Pau Claris presented a proposal before the Junta de Braços by which the King of France agreed to put the Principality under his protection if Catalonia changed its government to a republic. On 17 January 1641, the Junta de Braços proclaimed for the first time in history the Catalan Republic under French protection. However, a week later, following the defeat of the Catalan armies in the Battle of Martorell, close to Barcelona, du Plessis-Besançon managed to convince the Catalan authorities that the help they needed could only be obtained from France if they recognized Louis XIII of France as sovereign. Pau Claris appealed on 23 January to Louis XIII, recognizing him as Count of Barcelona (as Louis I) and placed the Principality of Catalonia in personal union with the Kingdom of France.
On 26 January 1641, at the end of the Battle of Montjuïc, the army of Philip IV was defeated by a Franco-Catalan army and had to withdraw. Pau Claris died a month later. The formal agreement of personal union between Catalonia and France was ratified by the Treaty of Peronne on 19 September 1641.
Louis XIV was titled as Count of Barcelona (as Louis II) in succession to his father in 1643. Finally, the dismissal of the
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