The General Archive of the Crown of Aragon ( Cat. Arxiu General de la Corona d'Aragó ), originally the Royal Archives of Barcelona ( Cat. Arxiu Reial de Barcelona ), is an archive containing background documents of the institutions of the former Crown of Aragon and now also contains other historical resources .
Since 1994, he has been located on Almogavers Street in Barcelona, where he was transferred from the Palau del Lloccinent (Lieutenant Palace).
It was founded in 1318 in Barcelona by King Jaime II of Aragon as a single archive of all the territories of the Aragon crown . It was the only central archive of the Crown from 1318–1348, in which the courts of Zaragoza created the Archive of the Kingdom of Aragon. In 1419, the Royal Archive of Valencia was also created, where the funds of the courts of economic control of the administration of the kingdom and the Rational Main Archive of the Kingdom of Valencia were deposited.
After the war, the head of the archive (1740-1783) Javier Garma was appointed for the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), who tried to create a genuine Archive of the Crown of Aragon, collecting all the funds from the territories of the royal administration of the former Crown of Aragon in the Royal Archives of Barcelona. The Garma project inspired the policies of Prosper Bofarull and Mascaro, chief of the archive between 1814 and 1849, and creator of the current General Archive of the crown of Aragon.
From 1318 to 1993, the archive was managed in the Palau del Lloquentin, part of the Palau Reial Major (Royal Palace in Barcelona), and from that moment the building on Almogàvers Street was partially transferred to the archive, so now there are two places: the historic palace for protocol events, exhibitions and courses, and new for research and storage.
On January 20, 2007, the Board of Trustees was created [1] ( Cat. Patronat de l'Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó , Spanish Patronato del Archivo de la Corona de Aragón ) in the Lieutenant’s palace in Barcelona by the presidents of Catalonia, Jose Montilla, Aragon Marcelino Iglesias , Valencia by Francisco Cams and the Balearic Islands of Jaume Matas and Minister of Culture Carmen Calvo Poyato .
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History
First documents
The first documents of the archive are a collection of scrolls from the office of the first counts of Barcelona and the kings of Aragon. The royal archive was first mentioned on October 25, 1180 . In 1194, King Alfonso II of Aragon ordered a collection of documents from the Royal Archive, which had legal force and could be useful for the rights of the Crown, Ramón de Caldes (lawyer), dean of the Cathedral of Barcelona . The result was Liber feudorum maior . Ramon de Caldes himself said that the collection was very incoherent. Thanks to this collection, we know more than a thousand documents, the oldest of which date back to the 9th century .
These early references did not mean that the archive was already sorted, however, several lists were cataloged that could be geographically distributed, and usually these statements are not considered a precedent for the current archive. The first mention of a real document repository dates back to 1255 . This storehouse was located in the convent of Santa Maria de Sichen, and then located in the geographical center of the Crown.
Under Jaime I of Aragon , the use of paper increased, due to this the speed of document production increased, which was the beginning of the records of the royal office.
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Literature
- Archivo General de la Corona de Aragón // Guia histórica y descriptiva de los archivos, bibliotecas y museos arqueológicos de España : [ Spanish ] / Francisco Rodríguez Marín . - Madrid: Tipografia de la Revista de archivos, bibliotecas y museos, 1916 .-- P. 469+.
Links
- General Archive of the Crown of Aragon (English)