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The monk who surrendered the crown made Aragon a lasting confederacy
A Benedictine monk is crowned to preserve a kingdom, setting up a confederacy that will outlive wars and dynastic unions - but how?
The monk who surrendered the crown made Aragon a lasting confederacy
In this episode, we follow how a monk’s reluctant kingship and a marriage contract forged the Crown of Aragon into a confederacy rather than a single kingdom. We trace the legal and parliamentary structures, territorial additions, and choices that sustained the Crown for centuries - and ask how those arrangements finally ended with decrees rather than a battle.
Person: Ramiro (a Benedictine…
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