The Dynasty Of Pedro III And Jaime II By Maria Encinas Roger Ibars
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Chapter I: Pedro III One day in 1285 Pedro III was in his bed, where there was a beautiful painting; he was very ill and with a fever. For a moment, he closed his eyes, remembering the 13 of June of 1262, the day he was married in the cathedral of Montpellier with Constance of Hohenstaufen, daughter and heiress of Manfred I of Sicily. Pedro III was a tall and elegant man, with long hair and a long beard. His eyes were browns and with a powerful looked. He was kind and generous; he always looked after his family and friends. This situation between the dynasty Hohenstaufen and the Crown of Aragรณn, being Constanza the heiress of Manfred, caused the antipathy of Clement IV who request help from Charles I of Anjou, brother of his allied Louis IX of France. So the troops of Charles of Anjou went into the island and the first thing he did was raise the prices. Sicilians rebelled against the Anjou family in the Sicilian Vespers. To confront the Angevins, the Sicilians gave the Kingdom to Pedro III. He also started remember his sons and daughters: Alfonso III, Jaime II, Isabel de Aragรณn, Federico II, Violante and Pedro de Aragรณn. II
Arnau de Vilanova, his doctor was beside him measuring his temperature and looking after him. Arnau was an adult man with an elegant beard and short and brown hair. His eyes were darks and his nose small and turned-up. He was the doctor who looks after the king. When the doctor was a novice, King Pedro Doctor Arnau didn’t know how to cure some illness but he gave some medicines to the king. Elvira, the housekeeper, was a woman who often wears a long and gray dress, sometimes dirty. She always wore a bun and a smile which glad everyone around her. Her eyes were big and green and her mouth was big and happy. The king always had very regard to her because she always looked after Pedro III and his family. Elvira gave a soup to the king Pedro who was in his bed. el rey no respondía demasiado bien. El doctor Arnau de Vilanova estudiaba la manera en que el cuerpo de Pedro el Grande respondía, y así intentaba hacerle mejorar. Por desgracia el doctor no pudo hacer nada y el rey falleció el 11 de noviembre de 1285 en la festividad de san Martín. Days later the king was better. At the end of October of 1285, the king travelled to Barcelona, but he had to stay in San Climent. III
Doctor Arnau was always beside him all the trip and he gave him medicines and cures. The king didn’t was so good. Doctor Arnau studied how the body of Pedro responds, and trying to treat him. Unfortunately the doctor couldn’t do anything and the king died on the 11 November of 1285 on the feast of St. Martin. His son, Jaime II, a young and strong man, with green eyes and a look similar of the look of his father, was the next king of the Crown of Aragón and Sicily. After his coronation, the King ordered an alchemist who transformed a crown made of a metal, into a beautiful golden crown. The alchemist done a wonderful crown, but one day, a wise showed him that the crown didn’t was of gold: -Took me this bastard! - shouted the king. Immediately, majesty- said one of his subjects. When the alchemist arrived, the king was very angry and he humiliated him in public.
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Chapter II: Conquest Of The Kingdom Of Murcia
In 1296 Jaime II started a feud with Castilla to conquer the Kingdom of Murcia. Alicante was the first city to fall in April despite the resistance of the mayor at the castle of Santa Barbara, and after her Elche, Orihuela, Guardamar of Segura and Murcia. The conquest was facilitated by the Catalan population that lived in the kingdom, but it had the opposition of Castilian garrisons of the castles and the Bishop of Cartagena.
In 1298 he won Alhama of Murcia and Cartagena and the 21 December of 1300 the war ended with the conquest of Lorca. King James II thought articulate the kingdom of Murcia as one of the territories of the Crown of Aragon to grant Jurisdictions, however, after the age of majority of Fernando IV the political crisis in Castilla ended , so both crowns preferred came to an agreement, Castilla and Aragon needed peace, and then they signed the Treaty of Torrellas in 1304 and the amendment expressed in the Treaty of Elche 1305 , which returned the kingdom to the Spanish jurisdiction and definitely changed the borders between V
Castilla and Aragon established in the Treaty of Almizra , incorporating the Crown of Aragon , the Kingdom of Valencia, the regions of Valle del Vinalopรณ , Campo of Alicante and the Vega Baja of Segura.
Chapter III: 25 Years After The Death Of King
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through the foundational privilege granted by King Jaime II at the request of municipal structures was created the University of Lleida. Previously, at the request of the king, Pope Boniface VIII had granted the 1 April of 1297, the papal bull approving the creation of a General Survey on the lands of the King of Aragon and Catalonia. 25 years after of the death of Pedro III, Jaime II went to visit the University accompanied by Arnau de Vilanova. Jaime was interested because the University of Lleida was the first to perform autopsies to investigate.
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The king let Arnau de Vilanova went to see the University and to learn more and be more professional. After the visit, back to the castle, Don Arnau had asked nurses bring two recent graduates of the University to assist him in the hospital where he worked for the king and the people.
In the castle it was Elvira, the housekeeper, a woman who had cared for Jaime when he was a child. The castle was sad, Doctor Arnau de Vilanova was disappointed for the death of Pedro and to couldn’t do anything to save him, then he continued analyzing the results and the course of the illness of the king. The doctor suggested exhuming the tomb of King Pedro III to take samples, so he proposed it to the king.
-Are you crazy? How dare you ask me such a thing about the grave of my father? - Said angry King Jaime II.
-I'm sorry but I had to tell you, but do not think to investigate the causes of the death of his father could save thousands of lives?
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Chapter IV: A Great Exhumation
After talking, King Jaime II decided to accept the proposal of Dr. Arnau . So, the doctor with a couple of subjects of the king exhumed the grave.
Between tears and for a few days, Don Arnau investigated the remains of the ancient king's body.
Day and night spent studying every detail, until the discovery that one of the travel of the king before his death, hunting he caught the virus that had a wild boar and that it found in some animals.
The doctor told the discovery to the king and he made to make this discovery to all the doctors in the crown knew it.
Thousands of doctors, novices and experts investigated this virus for many years.
King James II , proud of the work had done the doctor, let it work outside the castle teaching other doctors discovery so we can investigate best long as it was available at the castle if there was any urgency.
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Arnau de Vilanova not only progressed in his profession, but also was better person and he helped many people.
Meanwhile, in the castle Elvira received more maids who would help with cleaning and organization with the maids who were already living in it.
Months later, Don Arnau received a statement where the king asked him to return to the castle urgently. Arnau de Vilanova took the first ship sailed des London that was where he was, to San Sebastian in the Basque country. When he arrived to the castle he found Elvira in her bed next to her doctors, Arnau de Vilanova asked for information doctors proceeded to give him some information. The first said: - Good Arnau de Vilanova, we performed a series of tests to Dona Elvira- said the first doctor.
- DoĂąa Elvira had a severe fever, intestinal pain, dizziness and respiratory difficulty- said the second doctor.
- Have you managed to stabilize it - ask Arnau de Vilanova.
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At that time doctors noticed that Dona Elvira was not breathing and Arnau de Vilanova concluded that came into cardiac arrest, Arnau de Vilanova gave improved a drug that had created a while ago thanks to his research and that which could be solved dose some people heart problems . When they got stabilize entered into the room Jaime II.
- Elvira, how are you?
- Your Majesty, I must thank all these years with you and your father have been fantastic, I have given the family he had never had.
- Do not fire you, Elvira, is going to recover, it will be much longer at my side.
- My road ends here sir; you must remain firm on his throne until the end, as it has been doing so far.
And with those words, Elvira closed his eyes and left the castle forever.
Jaime never again was the same, like Dr. Arnau , but they lived in the castle fighting together until the end.
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